Example sentences of "[v-ing] its [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual members can be strengthened by the acquisition of personal and committee staff , whereas the legislature as a whole can , by employing its own bureaucracy , better compete with the vast bureaucracy of the executive branch . |
| 2 | However , the state also performs certain hegemonic functions too , justifying its own existence and authority in the rhetoric of the courts and in its celebration of the nation . |
| 3 | The Ego is an expert at being defensive , at rationalising and justifying its own behaviour , at seeing itself as the hapless victim of a cruel , harsh world . |
| 4 | Additionally , the horse 's temperament is likely to deteriorate dramatically , and the horse may become not only more difficult to manage , but may also develop some vice , such as viciousness , wind-sucking , cribbing , weaving , or biting its own body and tearing its own skin . |
| 5 | Whether we covet , confine or curse it , the mink is only minding its own business . |
| 6 | A portable bench incorporating its own vice is particularly useful . |
| 7 | Yesterday the Royal Mail was keeping its own counsel about this hot literary topic . |
| 8 | Rather belatedly the local Labour Party got its act together and , along with the Trades Council , passed resolutions condemning its own councillors . |
| 9 | This was partly because its proposals would have put an end to the prospect of the very benefits that securitisation should bring ( because the Bank of England would have had difficulty in applying its own regulations for securitisation ) , and partly because the accounting treatment proposed seemed to us inconsistent . |
| 10 | The party developed various ploys to maintain its position , like acquiring its own experts and co-opting people with strong group links on to the Politburo . |
| 11 | As such it is not only reworking its own field , but putting new questions and new evidence into the general work of the social sciences . |
| 12 | The report also calls on the Government to " exert as much pressure as possible on all international fora to ensure that worldwide action is taken to combat global warming " , but stresses that the UK should " set an example … by seriously tackling its own emissions problems in advance of international understanding " . |
| 13 | It 's staging its own marches to counter the official demonstration and it 's changing some street names back to what they were before the revolution . |
| 14 | Durham Green Party is launching its own women 's campaign this week in the run up to International Women 's Day on Sunday March 8 . |
| 15 | Founder member of the consortium , CPRW , has already pledged £5,000 and will be launching its own appeal through its magazine next month . |
| 16 | Airtours meanwhile was in the middle of launching its own airline . |
| 17 | The usual way , however , is to start by using an agent , then opening its own sales office with a limited number of staff and , once profits start to show , allow the unit to become self-sufficient and expand ultimately into manufacturing . |
| 18 | The Midland Railway Centre is launching a new venture in Ripley by opening its own shop , and booking office . |
| 19 | However , it is possible for the subsidiary company to pay up a dividend , thus generating its own ACT , which is available for carry back . |
| 20 | JUST AS the calculator has produced its own brand of innumeracy , so the word-processor is generating its own style of illiteracy . |
| 21 | And the larger a parrot 's bill , the less likely it was to attack a mirror reflecting its own image ( a standard ploy which convinces most birds that they are confronted by a particularly nasty-looking aggressor ) . |
| 22 | Her beautiful soft face , illuminated by the intermittent glow of the fog light , was reflecting its own light of love . |
| 23 | He told me that Lambeth Palace was pursuing its own contacts in an attempt to locate Terry Waite . |
| 24 | British Airways says that alongside pursuing its own action , the company and chairman Lord King are planning to vigorously defend the defamation case brought by Virgin and Branson . |
| 25 | Pluralist stagnation suggests that the problem lies with the growth of groups in British society , each group pursuing its own interest . |
| 26 | Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members . |
| 27 | Wordperfect is also primping its own channels , with a worldwide certified partners programme for value-added resellers , systems integrators , developers , consultants and trainers . |
| 28 | He concludes that the effectiveness of a given system should be based on its ability to fit in with the external systems making up its environment on the one hand , and , on the other hand , on its competence in allowing its own sub-systems to fit in with each other . |
| 29 | insurance company ( est. 1782 ) , the first to adopt the practice of maintaining its own fire brigade . |
| 30 | Thus the breakaway group , organizing its own exhibition , was an obvious initiative . |