Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It saw a company which , by 1975 , had a turnover of five million pounds , employed 1,000 men and women worldwide , had forty shops , three factories and which was profitable enough to own its own jet . |
| 2 | But neither side is yet strong enough to install its own candidate . |
| 3 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 4 | If in the process there is less stress on individual labour rights than the constitution proposed , then this merely reflects its inappropriate model of industrial , general or trade unions . |
| 5 | When your baby is old enough to hold its own head up , a more robust back pack is a variation on the front carrier . |
| 6 | In some cases , where the childhood has been unhappy or deprived , there is no such happy occasion to build upon ; in such instances I start by asking the patient to tell me what he could see as he lay in bed at night — this often brings its own feelings of security to even the unhappiest child . |
| 7 | This again had its useful side if one was choosing clothes for oneself . |
| 8 | Another , and perhaps the worst aspect is that the wind has the habit of blowing debris into the net so that it becomes entangled and this too limits its catching ability . |
| 9 | And yet this too had its agreeable counterpart ; their boats , however much in need of repair , had not gone down . |
| 10 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 11 | After starting in Ian 's hallway , Hunter Equipment Sales Limited now has its own freehold premises and a turnover in excess of £1m , selling specialised microscopes and other visual inspection equipment . |
| 12 | KREMS , at the eastern end of the Wachau valley in Lower Austria , is a handsome little town and somehow gives the impression that it is not large enough to house its thirty-two-thousand souls . |
| 13 | But no one else is likely to be bothered by this , since the product is intended for the industrial site or building large enough to have its own substation . |
| 14 | ‘ Here ’ was a small Cotswold town , small enough to be delightfully picturesque and unspoiled , large enough to boast its own cottage hospital . |
| 15 | Znojmo , which is a town listed as an ancient monument , needs a good deal of restoration but its town hall of 1445 still possesses its tall , elegant steeple . |
| 16 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 17 | It is confident enough to raise its total dividend from 18.9p to 19.5p , via a final of 12.5p , but the shares lost 9p to 676p . |
| 18 | Competitive equilibrium is Pareto-efficient because the independent actions of producers setting marginal cost equal to price , and consumers setting marginal benefits equal to price , ensure that the marginal cost of producing a good just equals its marginal benefit to consumers . |
| 19 | In the absence of any distortions , the private cost or market price of a capital good also measures its social cost , the opportunity cost of the resources used to make the capital good , or the value of the goods these resources could otherwise have made . |
| 20 | Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed . |
| 21 | Black too extends its necessary semantic field to the unit of the sentence , claiming that the semantic force of a metaphor can only be measured with regard to its context . |
| 22 | In the absence of consensus , government has to be bold enough to propose its own answers , and these must be seen to incorporate an underlying principle , carried through and exemplified in all of the stages of education from primary to tertiary . |
| 23 | The homeostat , the automaton concerned only to preserve its own equilibrium , was never a convincing model of human behaviour . |
| 24 | If the use of political anti-semitism can be seen as a crucial stage in the decline of the BUF from a national movement to a localized racial populist organization , then its attempt to resurrect its political pretensions in the Peace Campaign of 1938 — 40 merely hastened its inevitable total destruction . |
| 25 | The UK on Feb. 23 formally lifted its voluntary ban on new investment in South Africa and the promotion of tourism , unilaterally breaking EC agreements on sanctions , on the grounds that this would encourage further internal reforms in South Africa . |
| 26 | The emphasis of financial management within each stage of the life-cycle as shown in figure 4.3 still retains its logical validity . |
| 27 | However , the character of Breathless only assumed its current prominence after a shrewd Warren Beatty snagged Madonna for the role . |
| 28 | These are said to indicate two broad phases , one apparently following the line of the mid to late second-century north-south cross-street , which is especially prominent towards the western end of the defended enclosure , the other seemingly having its own distinctive alignment more akin to the line of the road running north from the main crossroads ; this is more obvious at the eastern end , and might therefore be earlier in origin . |
| 29 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc duly unveiled its new WinServer multiprocessors running Microsoft Corp Winodws NT last week ( UX No 434 ) . |
| 30 | Although the Lancastrian and Yorkist monarchs occasionally tried to replace it with taxes assessed directly on individual incomes , resistance proved too strong , and the fifteenth and tenth still held its own in 1485 as the established form of parliamentary taxation . |