Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Supervisory Authority exercises its supervision not only over the operation of the stock exchange but also over all public buying and selling of securities . |
| 2 | If you are acquiring a cross-breed , try to establish its parentage as far as possible . |
| 3 | It allows us the conclusion that has just been contemplated : that the difference between causal items and their effects has its basis not only in the consideration that causal circumstances fix uniquely the occurrence of their effects , but also in the consideration that causal circumstances precede their effects . |
| 4 | But , he said , its new management is going all out to ensure that it becomes more efficient cost-wise , that it focusses its research more effectively , and that it becomes more market-led . |
| 5 | Then he laughed ; a warm , good-humoured laugh that found its echo all around . |
| 6 | The two-lane road was winding its way sometimes so close to the sparkling sea that Gina felt she could lean out of the window and dabble her hand in it . |
| 7 | Vivienne Westwood 's Kings Road shop changed its name yet again to become World 's End , and started showing collections . |
| 8 | It holds its shape very well since it does n't get broken springs , lumps or bumps . |
| 9 | It maintains and holds its loft extremely well . |
| 10 | We hope to be able to increase its reach even further in the coming year . |
| 11 | Central government seeks to impose its will not merely through legislation but also through the communication of large amounts of guidance . |
| 12 | for the first time the egalitarian mentality has been able to impose its will not only on the State schools , but on the private schools . ’ |
| 13 | Only by realising that a painting is much more than one facet of a face , that it is a distillation of a multitude of images of a person , have recent audiences come to see its worth once more . |
| 14 | The Barnes petition also asks for the indenture to be amended to allow the Barnes to invest its endowment more flexibly , raise the gallery admission fee from $1 , and hold fundraising events on the foundation premises . |
| 15 | If the ground is hard , and even a bit bumpy , the ball will usually bumble its way quite satisfactorily up or down a bank and distance is fairly easy to judge . |
| 16 | When we began this study we qualified its title very carefully . |
| 17 | Munich planned its future long ago . |
| 18 | The economics ministry has kept mum about why it made its decision so abruptly , but most in the industry assume it is a first step towards rejoining an international quota system . |
| 19 | The Socialist Party , which got its economics so disastrously wrong at the start of the 1980s , has now more or less caught the point . |
| 20 | You think of a warm , inky cave and you got its mouth all right . |
| 21 | So long as it could prevent news of discontent travelling from one region to another and igniting a bush-fire of revolt , the Party was able to restore its control relatively quickly and with little loss of life . |
| 22 | The thecodonts , from this perspective , were one group that improved its locomotion and utilized its energy more effectively , and survived better . |
| 23 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 24 | Anyone familiar with CPE Bach 's exhilarating setting will no doubt have noticed its indebtedness not only to J S Bach , but also to Telemann , and other representatives of a definable Rococco school of German composition . |
| 25 | With other persons and tenses , the word assumes its other more fully lexical meaning as in : |
| 26 | Like most of the organic superconductors already known , the new material loses its resistance only under high pressure . |
| 27 | A popular paint for iron railings , gutters and downpipes is black bitumen , which though it loses its gloss quickly still retains its protective qualities . |
| 28 | A popular paint for iron railings , gutters and downpipes is black bitumen , which though it loses its gloss quickly still retains its protective qualities . |
| 29 | New Scientist kept a lofty attitude about it all by celebrating three anniversaries in the history of space flight , or , alternatively , dropped its gaze discreetly on to the Mary Rose , about to surface from the Solent . |
| 30 | The world , apparently , did not feel its shame so strongly that it moved its hand to its wallet . |