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Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	First , though MI5 is notionally under the control of the Home Secretary he will be told nothing about its day-to-day operations .
2	It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes .
3	I just made it out of the front door and to the end of my path , when the picture windows imploded inwards and the house erupted behind me through its triangular roof like Krakatoa herself .
4	I love the English countryside , though I think we all sometimes deceive ourselves about its idyllic past .
5	We need not concern ourselves with its detailed definition , though it is precise enough for those in the know .
6	The only difficult character is the catfish , which during its formative life feeds upon aquatic insect life , but which will turn its attention to small fish and the tails of larger ones as it reaches maturity .
7	It also takes part in the ecumenical National Retreat Association which through its National Retreat Centre offers resources , information and an annual magazine called Vision which gives information about retreats and retreat houses .
8	It would perhaps make a poignant epitaph to Eliot 's creative career that he should return to the literary associations and memories of his youth in America — the " Victorian American " who even in his rebellion against that inheritance marked himself as its true heir .
9	The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility .
10	It even seems to me that my article constitutes a commentary which despite its broad irony nevertheless contains arguments Joseph Kosuth avoids .
11	Together they pulled back the high door , which despite its rustic appearance , ran smoothly on well-greased and balanced rollers .
12	She says that the outside world has plenty of its own problems .
13	Then he would remember his own beloved homesite , and whisper to himself of its dour moorland and rough sea coast , and the winds and the rain that did battle with an eagle 's wings .
14	Under both governances it somehow managed , in friendly or hostile fashion , to draw supplies of meat , poultry and other foodstuffs from the fertile riverside plain known as the Merse ( or Marsh ) , which with its moderate rainfall was from early times one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country .
15	In addition there has been a growth in the promotion of tourism , which with its low pay , seasonal employment , and upwardly spiralling speculative investments , has also brought pressure upon people to leave the land .
16	In the slow introduction Tennstedt made it clear that this was to be a reading of high , dramatic contrasts , and that led to an account of the Vivace which with its sprung rhythms kept relaxing into pastoral moments without loss of pace or power .
17	Civic Forum , the movement which had emerged to lead the November 1989 revolution in the Czech lands and which with its Slovak sister organization Public Against Violence had won the June 1990 general election [ see p. 37542-43 ] , elected the Federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus as its first chair at a delegates ' meeting in Prague on Oct. 13 .
18	This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing selfconsciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence .
19	‘ This person , I thought , is what a woman should look like : this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing self-consciousness the very essence of femininity , the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother , sister , wife , daughter , the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic , the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance , the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet , napalms distant villages , pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence .
20	‘ The rule as to unsoundness is that if at the time of sale , the horse has any disease which either actually does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , so as to make him less capable of work of any description of which in its ordinary progress will diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , or if the horse has , either from disease or accident undergone any alterations of structure that either actually does at the time , or in its ordinary effects will , diminish the natural usefulness of the horse , such a horse is unsound . ’
21	The Church of England , which in its 1908 Lambeth Conference had condemned family planning , changed its mind when it was clear that the faithful were simply ignoring its precepts .
22	It is not for this , however , that she is remembered , but for her writing on domestic matters and especially for Beeton 's Book of Household Management ( 1859–61 ) which in its various editions made ‘ Mrs Beeton ’ a household name in a double sense .
23	One very influential form of the belief in the equal rights or worth of each person was found in utilitarianism , which in its democratic version attached equal weight to the happiness and suffering of each individual .
24	To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control .
25	The first certain Greek words in the Bible are in the Book of Daniel ( 3.5 ) , which in its present form belongs to the third and second centuries B.C. It is furthermore probable that in Kohelet ( Ecclesiastes ) the Persian word pardes ( 2.5 ) is used in a meaning , orchard , given to it by the Greeks under the form .
26	This would seem to be the fundamental weakness in the document , which in its present form would be inappropriate for use in Catholic schools .
27	The Supreme Court of Victoria by a majority quashed the conviction on appeal , holding that , under the Crimes Act 1958 ( which in its amended form corresponded closely with the Act of 1968 ) , the necessary element of appropriation required proof of adverse interference with or usurpation of some right or rights of the owner ( Reg. v. Morris ) .
28	This powerful movement , whose origins are ancient and obscure but which in its modern form can be said to date from the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 , was soon associated with the spread of Enlightenment ideals through Europe : its ranks included princes , aristocrats , diplomats , merchants , bankers and civil servants — free-thinkers and rationalists of the upper and middle classes — as well as intellectuals and artists .
29	It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air .
30	By the end of the seventeenth century the chaotic medley of titles which had been used in earlier generations to describe diplomats of different ranks had been reduced to a simpler system which in its main lines was accepted by most states .