Example sentences of "its origin " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ethnic identity or contractarian ideology of the Ulster loyalist is clear in its origins , motivated by powerful economic , ethical , and religious convictions , all of which are interrelated , mutually supporting , and validated by the existence of a dominating catholic — nationalist bloc in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 2 | This requirement has its origins in Greek sculpture . |
| 3 | A literary text is , manifestly , the product of a particular historical situation , and may be interpreted in the light of its origins and initial reception , as has been done in the discussions of Romantic literature by Marilyn Butler and Jerome J. McGann , who can be called New Historicists minus the ideological charge . |
| 4 | I have tried to show in this book that though the academic institutionalizing of vernacular literary study which began about a century ago had good , even inescapable reasons in its origins , its later progress has not had the effects the founders hoped for . |
| 5 | ‘ They have seen a phenomenon they believe to be smoke , and with nothing but their personal opinion to guide them , they have promptly pronounced its origins as fire . ’ |
| 6 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 7 | As we saw there , Segal and Irigaray have recently elaborated this view , but its origins are clearly in Freud whose early case-studies , as Mitchell observes , originate the idea that ‘ the homosexual was choosing not another of the same sex , but himself in the guise of another ’ ( Psychoanalysis and Feminism , 34 ; see e.g. Freud , ix . |
| 8 | Instead of the expansive , though often rough , Michigan highways of Motown , US , we quickly , sometimes dramatically , threaded our way up a narrow zig-zagging ribbon of blacktop that would probe the credentials of any car , regardless of its origins . |
| 9 | It has attracted not only widespread condemnation but a fair amount of sociological analysis as well with the result that there is a lively debate taking place about its origins and nature . |
| 10 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 11 | As this year 's BBC Reith Lecturer , it is precisely this lack of cultural cross-fertilisation ( and its origins ) which he expounds as the major obstacle to a fully united Europe . |
| 12 | It is the outcome of a process which , for Harkabi , has its origins in the Israelis ' overwhelming , intoxicating victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 13 | Ballet traces its origins to the great court spectacles of the Renaissance and horses participated in the ‘ horse ballets ’ — both horses and royal riders gorgeously caparisoned by artists such as Henri Gissey . |
| 14 | This too has its origins in subcultural theory : Hebdige 's hypothesis that the ‘ classy ’ look of Mod style was a challenge to the class structure in sixties Britain , an expression of resilient self-belief . |
| 15 | Toyota seems less ashamed of its origins , with Japanese carp streamers and a huge red daruma plaster head in the factory for luck . |
| 16 | TYPE design still reflects its origins as a craft . |
| 17 | Even his employer , the now bust Drexel Burnham Lambert , can trace its origins to Drexel and Company , a Philadelphia bank which in 1871 created a partnership called Drexel Morgan . |
| 18 | The sterling standard for silver ( 925 parts per thousand of silver with the remainder being mainly copper ) has its origins in the fourteenth century and has continued virtually without interruption to the present day . |
| 19 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 20 | The events have , to conclude , all the trappings of a liturgical ceremony rather than a military exercise , and that is almost certainly what lies behind the story , and what gave it its origins . |
| 21 | Whatever our misgivings about the story 's historicity ( and we make a grave and fundamental error if we think the value of a passage like this is measured by the extent of its historicity ) , and however confident we might be about its origins , it asks and surely deserves to be taken on the storyteller 's own terms . |
| 22 | Though put beautifully into the mouth of Hannah by the storyteller , it did not have its origins with her , but , to judge from its mention of the king at the end , must have been composed for national celebration at some point during the time of the monarchy . |
| 23 | ‘ Now jazz is not a street thing , but , in its origins , with blues and all that stuff , that was street . ’ |
| 24 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 25 | The principle has its origins in liberal state philosophy which gives primacy to the entrepreneurial spirit of individuals and restricts the influence of the state to ‘ last resort ’ interventions when free market principles fail . |
| 26 | Nothing is known of its origins but it is engraved ‘ Reading 1892 ’ . |
| 27 | The most popularly accepted story , probably greatly altered since its origins some 300 years ago in 1676 , concerns jealousy , greed , murder , the eternal triangle and every other human emotion that is a foreplay to disaster . |
| 28 | Gynaecology enjoyed an intricate and fraught relationship with obstetrics , which had its origins in the 18th century . |
| 29 | This critical assumption , and its origins , are worth examining further . |
| 30 | Leading off the corner of the square , in Prokopská Street is a house ( 3/625 ) whose strange apsidal shape reveals its origins as a church . |