Example sentences of "its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christians had a sacred history : in the fourth century they acquired a sacred geography which was its spatial reflection . |
| 2 | This allows you to say where the receptive field lies and a little bit about its spatial organization but , unless you are very lucky , it would not allow classification into X- , Y- , and W-categories with any confidence . |
| 3 | An important theme of empirical and theoretical work on contemporary social structure is that of social differentiation , and its spatial aspects . |
| 4 | If a form of association is declared , its spatial effect in the geometric domain must be checked and preserved . |
| 5 | … on the physical resource of water in all its spatial and temporal inequalities of occurrence , and by its conceptualization of the many systems subsumed under the hydrological cycle … |
| 6 | The description of an ecosystem may include its spatial relations : inventories of its physical features , its habitats and ecological niches , its organisms , and its basic reserves of matter and energy ; the nature of its income ( or input ) of matter and energy : and the behaviour or trend of its entropy level . |
| 7 | Whereas , in a crystal we may choose the axes of symmetry , in an amorphous polymer there is by definition no symmetry and all we know about the atom in a chain is where its topological nearest neighbours are but not where its spatial neighbours are , except that they lie within a " van der Waals radius ' of the chosen atom . |
| 8 | Restructuring health care provision in England : its spatial implications |
| 9 | When the stress is removed the chain segments will diffuse back to their unstressed positions even though the whole molecule may have changed its spatial position in the meantime . |
| 10 | From the point of view of its spatial support , we can understand as well the use of the to infinitive as what Jespersen calls the " infinitive of specification " ( 1940 : 262ff ) . |
| 11 | His design solution achieved its ends through its spatial ordering of relationships , and through its emphasis on unimpeded and unrestricted communications , both as aids to good management and as counters to misconduct . |
| 12 | Its alert , baffled , stamping , storming mother |
| 13 | Pumfrey sat back in his chair and his thin face , with its alert blue eyes and the bristly little moustache , assumed the look of a frustrated ferret . |
| 14 | It was agreed that the JNA would call off its alert and Croatia 's specijalci would be demobilized ( but not disbanded ) . |
| 15 | By that time , the tarnish on its once-genteel image was murky . |
| 16 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 17 | She was never to think of that dream without some of its investing emotions , shame and irritation , even after a man at a party in 1969 had told her such dreams are dreamed typically by those unlikely to fail plausible and real exams . |
| 18 | I saw nothing strange in his behaviour , but it is evident from the literature that the families of anorexics often include a member who either suffers from a psychosomatic complaint or shows an obsessive interest in food and its health-giving properties . |
| 19 | Garlic is well-known for its health-giving properties , but did you know that it 's every so easy to grow ? |
| 20 | A sunny , spa town famed for its health-giving qualities , Merano is blessed by the sun and protected by stunningly scenic mountains from the fierce northern winds . |
| 21 | The first signs of its waning authority can certainly be perceived ( with hindsight ) in earlier novels , particularly Jane Austen 's ; but novelists before Dickens do not write as though they are aware that the failures they criticize are irreversible . |
| 22 | The government had insisted that the measures were crucial to the success of its anti-inflationary policy launched in March [ see pp. 37312-13 ] . |
| 23 | Sun , in the throes of trying to get as much commercial software at its disposal as possible , partnered with Universal Software last October to put its like-minded Open/36 on Sparc . |
| 24 | Wessex Poems , with its idiosyncratic drawings , introduced him to a startled public as a poetic writer of great originality and — in ‘ Neutral tones ’ , ‘ Friends beyond ’ , ‘ I look into my glass ’ for example — a potential master of the lyric form . |
| 25 | Where the book falls down is in its idiosyncratic layout and the poor quality of the colour reproductions ( I refer to the Flammarion edition ) . |
| 26 | The characteristic which singles out a species ; its idiosyncratic style of flying , perching , feeding , ground-moving , preening , posturing which , once observed in the field , identifies it from the rest . |
| 27 | At this point the market began to bulge with new and lower priced devices such as the ImageMaker with its idiosyncratic optical font wheel , the Montage FR1 and the promised but rarely seen Mirus — a company in which Apple holds a 20% stake . |
| 28 | During the years 1926 to 1935 , when , with her husband , she was a leading member of and exhibitor with the Seven and Five Society , her work was consistently praised for its idiosyncratic approach to light and colour , which can be seen to be her most important artistic legacy . |
| 29 | Amos Tutuola 's ( Nigerian ) novel The Palm Wine Drinkard had its idiosyncratic English modified by its British publisher , Faber and Faber . |
| 30 | Yet again , the idea is that once created the watch is self-sufficient and requires no further help from its divine craftsperson . |