Example sentences of "by its " in BNC.
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| 1 | AI is concerned that the Tunisian Government , by its failure to investigate allegations of torture brought to its notice , appears to be condoning the use of torture . |
| 2 | The extreme of critical judgement is to destroy the work concerned , as bulldozers destroyed a Russian exhibition of experimental art in 1974 ; or to forbid an artist to work , as was the practice in National Socialist Germany , where another form of criticism was used in 1937 by making an exhibition of art to be repudiated by its visitors . |
| 3 | The content of an article will tend to be determined by its length ; no newspaper article is likely to be more than 1,000 words , which precludes any chance of detailed analysis . |
| 4 | There is a tradition of strong social consciousness in the Church of Ireland , evidenced by its building of hospitals , the support of some of its leadership for the locked-out Dublin workers in 1913 and their activities in other works of mercy without a proselytizing aim . |
| 5 | This reactive violence is thus justified by its subjects and the justification subsists in consciousness along with their Roman catholic profession of faith and identity . |
| 6 | There is as yet no shift in the overall direction of the group , which remains dominated in terms of political action by its monopoly catholic and nationalist constituencies . |
| 7 | The writings of Leo XIII ( 1878–1903 ) , on which those of Pius XI ( 1922–39 ) were frequently constructed , are remarkable expressions of a papacy dragging itself up by its bootstraps from centuries of neglect in the field of social , economic , and political issues . |
| 8 | The labour party , which still had some of the socialist leanings of its founder James Connolly , was forced by its own lay members to amend its draft constitution in 1940 in order to fall in line with current papal social teaching . |
| 9 | The State acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and , with due regard to the equal right of life of the mother , guarantees in its laws to respect , and , as far as practicable , by its laws , defend and vindicate that right . |
| 10 | Struck as always by its resemblance to human brain . |
| 11 | Our civilization will be destroyed , he wrote , not by the Bomb but by its reverence for the Creative Spirit . |
| 12 | This Late Georgian and Victorian pub is currently a prime candidate for listing ; it is also , however , earmarked for disposal by its current owners , Bass . |
| 13 | THORN EMI Software , the computer services division of the electronics and entertainment group , has been bought out by its staff and management in an £82m deal and has taken a new name . |
| 14 | Poor quality cutlery can be spotted by its rough finish |
| 15 | Critical control points were described by Mr Knowles as being ‘ wholly inappropriate ’ to the catering industry , which by its nature is not highly systemised . |
| 16 | A few years back , I bought an old desk at an auction and , when I got it home , found that the drawers had not been emptied by its previous owner . |
| 17 | His peewit , he said , would manifest its friendship by its exemplary conduct , eating insects of all shapes and sizes but never pecking or injuring the plants . |
| 18 | Its analysis of police culture was certainly incisive and accurate , as can be judged by its wholesale condemnation . |
| 19 | His hands rose into the air and clenched , as though he was wrestling a bullock by its horns . |
| 20 | But Leonard himself was smitten , he says , by his family 's past , by its name and meaning . |
| 21 | Whatever we may make of Leonard 's Judaism , he is a man seized by its traditions , its scriptures and their imagery . |
| 22 | No ; it is the idea that if you force yourself to offer sexual favours to an abhorrent creature you will be rewarded by its transformation into a beautiful prince . |
| 23 | Signed by its maker inside ( right ) , its twin was in the Woodworker Show last year |
| 24 | Some of these cuddly toys , like the one featured in this project , had arrived in someone 's childhood as a gift from Grandma , and been loved to bits by its owner . |
| 25 | Provincial had been bitten by its own success . |
| 26 | Giants like the Great Central Railway — in latter days known by its despairing appreciators as the Gone Completely Railway — and the Leeds Northern main line north of Harrogate , through Ripon , were two such casualties . |
| 27 | Classical dance is by its very nature soundless , whereas much folk , character and theatre dance use the sound of the dancers ' feet , hand-clapping , footstamping and occasional verbal comment to emphasise the rhythmic beat and phrasing of the dance . |
| 28 | In every enchaînement each step an/or pose must be given its appropriate value by way of beginning , climax and end so that its place is justified by its importance to the whole sentence . |
| 29 | Yet a flexible stem makes such a difference ; horizontal placements , angled placements , pockets , all gobbled up by its voracious cams . |
| 30 | The Marxist critic reading a text for the ideological traces that it attempts to conceal — ‘ Hegelian grammar ’ is inescapable in such contexts — by its evasive gaps and silences , has an obvious resemblance to the Freudian analyst examining the manifest content of a patient 's dream for the repressed realities that are concealed within it . |