Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I think of an animal or a small child depositing its excreta in the wrong place so as to annoy its owner or parent . |
| 2 | Any extinguishing agent which develops its effects in the same direction must be capable of overtaking the flame front if it is to have an acceptable limiting influence on potential damage . |
| 3 | The iron law of oligarchy has its foundations in the logic of collective action . |
| 4 | The Actuarial profession has its foundations in the practice of life assurance in the early to mid-19th century . |
| 5 | One final area which requires some discussion is the question of whether advertising has its effects in the short or long term . |
| 6 | It is the outcome of a process which , for Harkabi , has its origins in the Israelis ' overwhelming , intoxicating victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 7 | The sterling standard for silver ( 925 parts per thousand of silver with the remainder being mainly copper ) has its origins in the fourteenth century and has continued virtually without interruption to the present day . |
| 8 | While this has its origins in the manipulation of plant and animal species that began c. 10 kyr BP ( section 3.3 ) it has been confined to plant and animal breeding programmes . |
| 9 | The proposed Clothing Industry Management degree has its origins in the perceived need in the clothing industry for well-educated managers to ensure a viable future . |
| 10 | They , exclusive of all other species , are free to choose , and in the final analysis , that instinct which has its origins in the mammalian family life is most likely to take precedence , and humans will choose to live with the relatively small family group as the ultimate refuge . |
| 11 | The Geological Survey of Great Britain has its origins in the early work of the Ordnance Survey and in the research of eminent members of the Geological Society of London . |
| 12 | The second myth is also seen in an early poem , The Rape of Lucrece , which has its origins in the story of Tarquin 's rape . |
| 13 | The term has its origins in the Old French word ‘ ecurie ’ which meant a barn or a stable . |
| 14 | This work has its origins in the early intelligence test movement and , later , in a specific concern with creativeness as a possibly separable aspect of intellectual functioning . |
| 15 | The existence of academic , pedagogic and utilitarian traditions in school curricula has its origins in the separate sectors of the educational system which preceded the comprehensive era . |
| 16 | In the case of suburban-type housing , the view of domestic life it ultimately reflects is a strongly traditional one that has its origins in the early development of industrial capitalism and the ensuing ideological split between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ life developed by the Victorian bourgeoisie . |
| 17 | The provision of this form of care has its origins in the pre-war public hospitals , which had a large number of patients with chronic health care problems . |
| 18 | Planning as a local authority responsibility has its origins in the public health and housing policies of the nineteenth century , but from the outset the objectives were broader than a simple emphasis on the efficient use of land . |
| 19 | This ecumenical publication has its origins in the experimental work of the Community of St. John the Baptist at Clewer . |
| 20 | It can be argued that town planning has its origins in the early cities of , say , Egypt or Mexico , or in the architecture of Renaissance Europe . |
| 21 | The CAB service has its origins in the combined operation set up in 1938 by the Ministry of Health , the National Council for Social Service and the Family Welfare Association to provide advice and information in an emergency . |
| 22 | As with corporate planning , strategic planning has its origins in the private sector . |
| 23 | The QWERTY keyboard has its origins in the days of early mechanical typewriters . |
| 24 | The standard of living is another key measure which has its origins in the same source . |
| 25 | The term comprador , from the Portuguese ‘ to buy ’ , has its origins in the employment of the domestic servants of white colonialists in India and China . |
| 26 | Possibly it has its origins in the ‘ white noise ’ techniques which the Brits , ever the innovators , pioneered in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ( it has always seemed unjust that what was deplored then as a human rights abuse was later marketed under the brand name of acid house ) . |
| 27 | It has its predecessors in the romantic tradition — a tradition which includes the self-important single self nevertheless prone to dispersal and division , invasion and impersonation , which includes the victim and his alter ego . |
| 28 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 29 | The modern ‘ clean break ’ approach has its roots in the nineteenth century which with varying degrees of application has continued throughout the twentieth century ( Triseliotis , 1989 ) . |
| 30 | The word holistic has its roots in the Greek holos which means ‘ whole ’ . |