Example sentences of "[adj] in its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parody can sometimes get to the heart of the matter in a way that imitation can not , and George Birmingham 's King Tommy is genuinely Ruritanian in its quirky way . |
| 2 | The left fork goes on to the village of Glenelg and in a field between the two roads a gaunt ruin will be noticed : this in its eighteenth-century heyday was the barracks occupied by Hanoverian troops . |
| 3 | ‘ The stock market has recognised this in its affirmative response to the rights issue and the share price now stands at 53p against the 38p that would have resulted if the market had simply absorbed the rights issue and stood still . ’ |
| 4 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) has at last faced up to this in its latest World Economic Outlook . |
| 5 | The Government has acknowledged this in its White Paper on Financial Services : |
| 6 | The eggs of these insects hatch to give a nymph ( sometimes called a larva ) , which looks similar to the adult , but is smaller , has no wings , can not reproduce , and is often slightly different in its bodily proportions and has different markings . |
| 7 | The inner mind is simply different in its essential configuration . |
| 8 | In the case of the 1971 Etna eruption , the magma involved was the same basaltic one throughout , yet its behaviour was quite different in its de-gassed condition in the second phase from its original state in the first , when the eruption was mildly explosive . |
| 9 | Language , Truth and Logic makes the ‘ no meaning ’ atheist position clear in its first chapter , ‘ The Elimination of Metaphysics ’ : |
| 10 | The fabliau through which Pearcy approaches this point , Connebert , is crystal clear in its poetic justice , with a lecherous priest being forced to castrate himself . |
| 11 | During the campaign period the DPP had purposely been less strident in its controversial advocacy of Taiwanese independence . |
| 12 | She had thought the department store that stood opposite the theatre unassailable in its pale-green elegance . |
| 13 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 14 | It is n't playing by the rules , it 's sometimes beautiful , sometimes energising , sometimes soothing and often funny in its own way . |
| 15 | Ventilation was provided by slits sited high in its stone-built walls and the gables contained owl-holes close to the apex of the roof ( Plate 1 ) . |
| 16 | Because Britain is largely self-sufficient in its main sources of energy , the Government can perhaps claim immunity from the charge that it is exploiting deliveries from oil-exporting states to swell national tax coffers . |
| 17 | It was an arduous process which became tangled in its own complexity leaving juries baffled and the legal and financial regulatory systems exposed . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing both appeals , Findlay : ( 1 ) the judge had accepted the custody officer 's evidence that the notes in the pocket book were shown to Findlay , though he was at that time incommunicado ; and Code C 12.12 in its unamended form ( which governed this case ) only applied to interviews at police stations so that it did not require the notes in the present case to be shown to him : Brezeanu & Francis [ 1989 ] Crim.L.R. 650 . |
| 19 | The spice-box is delectable in its fragrance , Chagallian in its rich mixture of images and responses . |
| 20 | Ellen 's manner was almost British in its cool restraint , matching our welcome which we had deliberately pitched at a low key . |
| 21 | When , on the other hand , a claim you are making looks overstated ( possibly unsustainable in its generalised form , or stronger than the evidence you have properly warrants ) , it is possible to tone down what you are saying by using indicators ( HEDGES ) that show you recognise the difficulty of certainty in the area . |
| 22 | As the Egyptian representative to the PCC told a leading representative of the Palestinian refugees at that time , Egypt was more interested in its own problems in the Sudan , in Suez , and in the receipt of American aid and arms . |
| 23 | Instead of the Michels notion of a radical movement being compromised by a leadership more interested in its own future than in the goals of the movement , a more fruitful theme from the social movements literature is Smelser 's distinction between various ‘ means ’ . |
| 24 | He could imagine that she might be interested in its money-making propensity at the end of the year . |
| 25 | After a shadowy introduction , the opening allegro is sharp and vehement , the slow movement shot through with unease , and the Scherzo faintly menacing in its nocturnal rustlings . |
| 26 | This seaworthy offshore cruiser is a modified design that became popular in its own right . |
| 27 | In each case the addictive disease is probably in-born in its fundamental tendency . |
| 28 | The Darlington-based band 's new LP Acres of Geeses reached the Indie Top 30 in its first week of release . |
| 29 | Beyond the gates and the Gate Lodge , derelict in its faded prettiness , her real world waited , and in it the life that contained all happiness . |
| 30 | Furthermore , as we shall see , the latency period , which follows these three stages as another developmental marker , is certainly not universal in its cultural aspects even if , as we noted earlier , basic neuro-physiological phenomena related to latency are . |