Example sentences of "[subord] its [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council receives reports from its police committee , but its control is possibly more tenuous than where its legal responsibility is clear ( Elcock 1986 : 169 ) . |
| 2 | ( The Atlantic , though dominated by an enormous mid-ocean ridge where new sea-floor is being created at a modest rate of about an inch a year , is home to only two very small subduction zones , with volcanoes and trenches , in the Caribbean and the South Sandwich Islands , and therefore is not being destroyed at its edges as rapidly as it is being created in the middle ; the Indian Ocean is similarly undramatic — a mid-ocean ridge once again , but a single subduction zone where its eastern plate collides with the Eurasian Plate and produces the volcanoes that — like Krakatoa — line the southern side of the islands of Java , Sumatra and Timor . ) |
| 3 | The mountain poses perfectly for the camera from the head of the Kyle , where its arresting presence is gloriously displayed . |
| 4 | Messages prints out to both dot matrix and laser , where its four-up format and the use of coloured paper stock can deliver the normal message slips , whilst the original data resides safely on the PC . |
| 5 | An international organisation will be directly interested in proceedings where its constitutive instrument , its actions , or its documents might be scrutinised . |
| 6 | Sequoia 's current series 300 and 400 fault-tolerant multi-processors , based upon Motorola Inc 68030 and 68040 CPU technology respectively , address the mid-range of that market , where its main competition is Stratus Computer Inc 's Intel Corp 80860-based machines and Tandem Computers Inc 's MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC line . |
| 7 | Hazelnut oil is the secret ingredient of so many sumptuous French salads where its fresh flavour sparkles over the vegetables . |
| 8 | Most of its fruit had fallen in the long grass , where its rotting skin had been pecked and tunnelled by birds and worms . |
| 9 | An example of this would be the value of a piece of equipment where its gross book value would be represented by the total volume of water in the two reservoirs . |
| 10 | So we tried to look deeper , particularly for a way of applying our money where its unique lack of strings could help add most the eminent scientists on the Venture Research Advisory Council — the Chairman Sir James Menter , Sir Rex Richards , Sir Hans Kornberg and Professor John Cadogan — contributed their expertise to this slow painstaking process as did my colleagues in the Unit . |
| 11 | When a vase emerged unbroken — especially the tall storage amphorae for oil and water-when its millennia-old husk of mud and chalk was scraped away , it appeared to Davide like a living body released from the torpor of an unnatural sleep , from a kind of illness , its rounded shape tender , pointing a foot , like an absorbed peg-doll , its intactness a triumphant resurrection . |
| 12 | Although its great hall and courtyard buildings have crumbled , its linked tower houses make an impressive sight from the A85 towards Crieff , and the interior still contains fine tempera painted ceilings , plasterwork and moulded fireplaces . |
| 13 | Until that day arrives the image of the BDA remains somewhat blurred although its paramount concern is and always will be the deaf community . |
| 14 | Such an image had little real relevance to the situation he was ostensibly addressing , although its private significance was such that it reappeared in his later creative work . |
| 15 | Arran 's Bill again went through the Lords without too much trouble but , by this time , a sponsor had been found , and Leo Abse introduced the Sexual Offences Bill in the Commons in July 1966 , although its second reading was delayed until 19 December . |
| 16 | Although its ultimate destruction has left no trace of the shrine 's location or size in the cathedral , it is recorded as being amply covered in gold and jewels . |
| 17 | Although its predictive value has not been proved , it warrants urgent evaluation . |
| 18 | Its leadership established itself in London although its real strength was centred in the towns and cities of the Midlands . |
| 19 | The chair was slipping , although its first speed had been checked by the fact that she had fallen in front of the wheels . |
| 20 | It is believed to be to a design by Il Pellegrini , although its actual construction was not until a century after the architect 's death . |
| 21 | Part of the station at North Road is now a museum devoted to the Stockton and Darlington Railway , the first regular passenger railway , opened in 1825 ( although its primary purpose was for freight ) . |
| 22 | The 1979 survey by Social and Community Planning Research commissioned by the National Consumer Council for this report adds some more recent information , although its primary purpose has been to explore the background of consumers ' knowledge and attitudes about credit . |
| 23 | The work , being undertaken by the King 's Cross Projects Group of the British Railways Board , will safeguard the structure of the building although its future use is unknown . |
| 24 | Although its therapeutic use is limited by its effects on calcium metabolism , analogues such as calcipotriol produce little hypercalcaemia . |
| 25 | The modern environmental movement began to emerge during the post-war period , although its initial emphasis was still on protection rather than conservation , and most of the effort was directed towards preserving large animals and their habitats in the Third World . |
| 26 | This is not an office block , nor a church — although its sublime form might suggest that its architect was adept at designing cathedrals . |
| 27 | An odd aspect of the mountain is that although its relative isolation from other hills makes it one of the most prominent peaks to pick out from other far distant tops , the views are rather more limited than one might expect . |
| 28 | Such terminal sterilization , common among all social classes , is likely to depress high parity births still further , although its relative irreversibility is already causing problems for remarrying couples . |
| 29 | The rock music above suddenly stopped , although its rhythmic throbbing seemed to linger in the air . |
| 30 | The exact point , which is about ¼ mile south of Myndmill Bridge , is described in the report as 14 miles 10 chains from the intended junction with the Cambrian Railways , north-west of Montgomery , for it is characteristic of the BCR 's unfulfilled ambitions that , although its main line to join the Cambrian was never completed , the railway 's mileposts showed the distance from that non-existent junction . |