Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 2 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 3 | Following the deployment , the Lebanese government made it clear that its next step would be to place diplomatic pressure on the United States to persuade Israel to allow Lebanese army deployment in Jezzin , as a first step towards compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 425 , which called for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon . |
| 4 | Unless the Paris Club , which manages official debt to Western governments , proves much more generous than its past record suggests , a considerable slice of the new money will go merely to service the old loans rather than provide fresh finance for imports and investment goods to support genuine reform . |
| 5 | Alderly has had owners far more distinguished than its Georgian creator . |
| 6 | I make no impression on it and all the time I am afraid that its flapping tail will come down on the taut line and snap it like a dry twig . |
| 7 | As a result of the centrifugal force of rotation it bulges at the equator and its polar radius ( 6378 km ) is 21 km shorter than its equatorial radius ( 6397 km ) ; thus the Earth is more accurately described as an oblate spheroid . |
| 8 | JET is very near to this and its present programme may achieve this . |
| 9 | Judging from this and its unusual style , the key could be late in period ( 3rd or 4th century ) , although I have no hard evidence to support this view . |
| 10 | The process leading up to this and its likely consequences for teaching are discussed in detail in the article by Walsh . |
| 11 | Er , I do n't know what , and I think he , we he sent for that book , I sent for this and its different issues which you can possibly used in erm P S D se er , etcetera and there 's a number which I feel work across the years rather than just you know , sort of one year book for example there 's a a unit there Terry and |
| 12 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 13 | But , as earlier sections in this chapter have demonstrated , a decade earlier prospects for the District 's future prosperity and work were unpromising and its autonomous existence open to serious doubt on occasions . |
| 14 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |
| 15 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 16 | The visitor , whoever it was , came in silently , and looking round , not knowing who or what to expect , Molly saw the tall sad-looking dog , its eyes wet and its pink tongue lolling , which Buck had apparently abandoned to the Castello Crocetto . |
| 17 | Davis was a founder-member of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1881 and its first secretary . |
| 18 | In any case , it is doubtful if its present followers would give much support to such an extension , for it is a religion which claims to confer privileges , including territorial ones , and privileges , by definition , can not have universal application . |
| 19 | My method in what follows will be to begin with an analysis of the concept of an ontological existent and its associated categories of identity , individuality and plurality , and by pursuing the leads that such an analysis yields to their logical conclusion demonstrate that such concepts form part of a complex structure of closely inter-related ideas . |
| 20 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 21 | And one of the 8-bit slots is unusable because its blanking plate carries the extra serial and games port . |
| 22 | Laski 's study of judicial review is particularly interesting since its primary focus is a study of Roberts v. |
| 23 | With this as its inspirational text , monasticism spread through the Middle East and into Europe . |
| 24 | Not as funny as its box-office receipts might suggest |
| 25 | The leading accountants , KPMG , has now adopted English as its world-wide company language ; reports , board meetings and contracts have to be in English . |
| 26 | Intergraph uses English as its corporate language throughout the world . |
| 27 | The latter are particularly helpful since cholesterol becomes harmful when its chemical structure is changed through oxidisation . |
| 28 | IBM will position PC-DOS as its low-end operating system , OS/2 2.0 and the planned microkernel Workplace OS as mid-range systems , and AIX 3.0 Unix as an option for workstations and large multiprocessing computers . |
| 29 | A second body was the Protestant Dissenting Deputies which had been founded in 1732 and was , by the end of the nineteenth century , healthier than its older friend although The Christian World noted in 1901 that it ‘ seems to have fallen on evil days ’ . |
| 30 | Calculations suggests that a planar lithiomethane molecule would only be 34 kcal mol-1 less stable than its tetrahedral form . |