Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] its [det] " 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 | When your baby is old enough to hold its own head up , a more robust back pack is a variation on the front carrier . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Here ’ was a small Cotswold town , small enough to be delightfully picturesque and unspoiled , large enough to boast its own cottage hospital . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The homeostat , the automaton concerned only to preserve its own equilibrium , was never a convincing model of human behaviour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |