Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vaughan Williams , Edward Elgar and Frederick Delius all take their place , alongside George Bernard-Shaw a painting that the National Portrait Gallery might well like to know about for its pending festivities . |
| 2 | So instead they turn to the past , to an idea of what the unspoiled working class community might have looked like in its classic phase before the War , before bombs , bulldozers and planners together swept away the old slum environment with its maze of narrow streets , its self-contained economy of tenements and factories , corner shops and pubs , and its equally complex , ingrown network of grannies , uncles and lifelong ‘ mates ’ . |
| 3 | That it is not so here is perhaps because the charioteer was not designed to be looked at on its own but as part of a larger whole . |
| 4 | Deliberately , the colour has little force , but this is compensated for by its allusive subtlety . |
| 5 | Furniture by the Edinburgh firm of Whytock and Reid did well , now increasingly sought after for its technical perfection . |
| 6 | Most people who are keen on hollies soon find out that both male and female trees can be extremely attractive because of their foliage , which is often variegated and much sought after for its own sake , so buying a male is n't just a utilitarian exercise . |
| 7 | Biggest disappointment was ‘ The end of the story ’ , a fine Albert Moore which , while amply demonstrating his brilliance as a colourist , was done in by its overcleaned state and high reserve ( est. $500-$700,000 ) : all bidding , such as it was , stopped at $375,000 ( £250,000 ) . |
| 8 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 9 | The 1990s have witnessed a shift in the art establishment 's attitudes towards art produced outside of its traditional parameters . |
| 10 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 11 | It must also strive to be first with the news , especially that emanating from within its national boundaries . |
| 12 | They were just that — guidelines , she said , and each case had to be dealt with on its individual merits . |
| 13 | Each case must be looked at and dealt with on its own merits considering the circumstances and amounts involved . |
| 14 | BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators . |
| 15 | Such people manifestly lack those human characteristics a society both produces in its members and relies on for its continued existence . |
| 16 | We are on the floor together : the door has to swing to on its own , as it is designed to do , though more for the sake of security than lovers . |
| 17 | The full set of normality relations which a lexical item contracts with all conceivable contexts will be referred to as its contextual relations . |
| 18 | However when he came to Celebes ( hereafter referred to by its modern name , Sulawesi ) , even Alfred Wallace was lost for a complete explanation of how this large star-shaped island acquired its fascinating and unusual fauna . |
| 19 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 20 | Minimising — acceptance that the sufferer has a problem and that there are some consequences in the family but refusal to accept that any of this is of great significance or that the family can not cope from within its own resources . |
| 21 | It elects from among its own members a reorganized bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet , which meets twice a year for three- or four-month sessions and is responsible for all legislative and administrative matters [ see pp. 36659-60 ] . |
| 22 | The same principle , looked at from its negative side , may be thus stated : There is no person or body of persons who can , under the English constitution , make rules which override or derogate from an Act of Parliament , or which ( to express the same thing in other words ) will be enforced by the courts in contravention of an Act of Parliament . |
| 23 | The principle then of Parliamentary sovereignty may , looked at from its positive side , be thus described : Any Act of Parliament , or any part of an Act of Parliament , which makes a new law , or repeals or modifies an existing law , will be obeyed by the courts . |
| 24 | But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's . |
| 25 | The explanation of the unreflective state of molecular biology is easily accounted for by its third contemporary characteristic : competitiveness . |
| 26 | Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen . |
| 27 | Claws braced on the wall beneath it , the thing strained upwards , rolling its dripping head in agony — and something that had been lying tight beneath it on the pavement slid from under its ravaged body and into the basement . |
| 28 | It is a fact to be questioned and wondered at in its own right . |
| 29 | Perfect contraceptive practice would be completely compatible with population growth , not decline , if desired family size remained at about its present level and was actually realized in achieved family size . |