Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would also give each Park its own authority , independent of local councils ( thereby extending a system applying presently in the Lakes and the Peak ) . |
| 2 | Some of those on the left have assumed that there is an inherent socialist majority in Britain which has failed to surface only because successive Labour governments , in pursuing a policy of managing rather than opposing capitalism , have never given that majority its political cue . |
| 3 | On the right of the path Halling field is continued and when we get to the Plough there is a building shown behind the inn and this is most certainly the dwelling that gave this field its old name Burnt House field . |
| 4 | The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 . |
| 5 | Johnson & Johnson in Canada is currently making sanitary towels out of the stuff ( peat moss soaks up 12 times its own weight of liquid ) . |
| 6 | When viewed in this light its theoretical position and its influence in relation to the social movements of Fabianism and New Liberalism may be revealed . |
| 7 | In some animals its biological role is more clearly defined . |
| 8 | Because bismuth is known to have a toxic effect on some microorganisms its therapeutic benefit in colitis may be related to this . |
| 9 | It reverted to being a draught animal in many places , losing its beef productivity , though in some areas its old milking abilities were encouraged and in due course the dairies of Cheshire came to rely on Longhorn milk for cheese-making ; from 1839 onwards Longhorns were frequently winning major beef prizes too , right through to the 1880s . |
| 10 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 11 | After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret . |
| 12 | That helps Ferguson , torn between letting his back-to-form strike force of Mark Hughes and Brian McClair continue their good work , and giving Old Trafford its first sight of the controversial £1.2 million newcomer . |
| 13 | There is a moderate level of minerals which has given this water its therapeutic reputation since Roman times . |
| 14 | This month its old-guard steering committee decided a better constitution would include annual meetings by the assembly , and powers for it to initiate laws and to veto bills from the legislature . |
| 15 | What gives this paper its particular importance in a philosophical sense is that it implicitly raises questions about the nature of knowledge in social work — or what we take to be knowledge about social work . |
| 16 | At first the party supported the policy of non-intervention , advocated by the French and British governments in August 1936 , and gave this policy its cautious support at its conference in October 1936 . |
| 17 | She added : ‘ Even if we do n't take an altruistic approach its clear failure to act now is merely building up a very expensive problem for the future ’ . |
| 18 | When the Ottoman empire declared war on a foreign state its unfortunate representative in Constantinople was very often immediately thrown into the Seven Towers prison there , where he might stay for a considerable time . |
| 19 | So here , too , is a noisy engine , but in this application its workmanlike character is not inappropriate . |
| 20 | Thus , in the words of R M MacIver , a ‘ state is the fundamental association for the maintenance and development of social order , and to this end its central institution is endowed with the united power of the community . ’ |
| 21 | Newcastle 's success is less easy to explain , for as late as the early sixteenth century its main export commodity was wool , although by the reign of Henry VIII it seems to have expanded its trade in coal , iron and lead ( 59 ; 71 ; 75 , p.45 ) . |
| 22 | It can be seen that the Woodward analysis of jobbing production corresponds to the description given in paragraph 3 above , but by giving each of the main types of jobbing production its own title , the Woodward analysis provides for a more accurate representation of the range of options . |
| 23 | For the pulsar to move 18' from the apparent centre of the SNR in this time its proper motion would have to be 0.06 yr -1 . |
| 24 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 25 | In countries such as Bangladesh , for instance , there have been major campaigns to give each village its own borehole and hand pump . |
| 26 | A Middlesbrough schoolboy ran away from home and spent three nights sleeping rough when he opened his parents ' quarterly phone bill and found his conversations had sent it soaring to over six times its usual amount . |
| 27 | So if that four and a half million was all incurred in the second half its underlying growth rate was something like sixty percent . |
| 28 | In language which retained the authentic ring of Robert Owen , it still sought far-reaching social and political change , ‘ a different order of things , in which the really useful and intelligent part of society only shall have the direction of its affairs ; in which industry and virtue shall meet their just distinction and reward , and vicious idleness its merited contempt and destruction . ’ |
| 29 | When a fish encounters such situations its natural reaction is to protect the gills by rapidly producing extra living cells to coat the very fine secondary fill lamellae . |
| 30 | And at one point , showing how the books were formed into the New Testament by the early Church , the report expressed the belief that God gave the early Church its three gifts of ordering of the New Testament , creeds like the apostles ' creed , and the ministry of bishops in their succession from the apostles . |