Example sentences of "[v-ing] its [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , many contemporaries were impressed by the growing capacity of some at least of the working class to practice self- and mutual-help and they sought ways of encouraging its further development . |
| 2 | I was glad to see that the weather was presenting its sunnier face today , although a breeze was scurrying through the tops of the trees . |
| 3 | In a driving snowstorm , the German 77th Brigade crossed the flooded Meuse at Brabant and Champneuville , redeeming its earlier failure . |
| 4 | Here the fenceless field spread out to the ditch which was edged with hawthorn , elder and hazel marking its further boundary , a huge stretch of green-gold already lightening . |
| 5 | Reynolds 's News described how a ‘ big and angry crowd ’ of Wolves fans estimated at 2,000 people gathered outside the officials ' entrance , protesting at the club 's policy of selling its better players . |
| 6 | Reversing its earlier stance against the creation of a republican army , Kirgizstan had on June 1 announced that it was taking under its own jurisdiction the former Soviet military units stationed on the republic 's territory and assuming responsibility for their upkeep . |
| 7 | Reversing its earlier stance against the creation of a republican army , Kirgizstan had on June 1 announced that it was taking under its own jurisdiction the former Soviet military units stationed on the republic 's territory and assuming responsibility for their upkeep . |
| 8 | Nogent is a centre of new technology while Wasquehal is part of greater Lille , now converting its older industries based on textiles and coal . |
| 9 | The anti-nuclear movement grew throughout the 1980s ; nationalist and separatist movements have revived , for example in Scotland and Quebec ; the women 's movement has had an increasing influence , although it is still far from accomplishing its larger aims ; and ecology movements have become widespread and more influential . |
| 10 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 11 | That school , like many of its contemporaries , was essentially a ‘ professionalizing ’ school preparing its better students for the more dignified occupations , rather than for higher education ( a development that was not to be fully realized until after 1945 and the expansion of the universities ) . |
| 12 | Zenith only won the three-year contract to supply 300,000 computers as a result of the government 's cancelling its earlier decision to award it to CompuAdd Corp of Austin , Texas , and Sysorex Information Systems , Falls Church , Virginia . |
| 13 | It climbed vertically above the field , retracing its earlier journey , until it seemed to hang suspended at the precise point where it had rested a moment ago . |
| 14 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 15 | What you 're aiming for are the receding depths of the river concealing its greater mysteries , while your fish flirt unawares in the foreground … |
| 16 | Responding to pressure from the Greek government the European Council " expressed its readiness to recognize " Macedonia ( following its earlier recognitions of Slovenia , Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina — see pp. 38703-04 ; 38848-49 ) " under a name which does not include the term Macedonia " . |
| 17 | Yet another change in the US administration heralded yet another programme budgeting reform : that of ZBB , introduced by President Carter in 1976 following its earlier implementation in his home state of Georgia . |
| 18 | And then , suddenly , there was the Pacific , and the sun , a great crimson ball , like the tuning indicator on a giant music centre , dipping its lower rim on to the hazed line of the horizon . |
| 19 | As its name implies , it has affinities with Realism , while rejecting its simpler canons . |