Example sentences of "[adj] for its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strangely enough , his announcement came just the day before Sir Richard Body 's press conference on his Pig Husbandry Bill , due for its second reading on 25 January . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke yesterday showed no sign of giving ground on the reforms set out in the National Health Service and Community Care Bill , due for its second reading in the Commons today . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , pressure groups are variously encouraging retailers to open on a Sunday or urging local authorities to prosecute the law breakers , and labour MP Ray Powell 's Private Member 's Bill ( supported by the Keep Sunday Special Campaign ) is due for its second reading on 22nd January . |
| 4 | It relates to the Education ( Schools ) Bill which is due for its Second Reading next Tuesday . |
| 5 | The core of morality was seen by Kant in the ‘ categorical imperative ’ , the unconditional demand upon us to do what is right for its own sake . |
| 6 | Reportedly there are continuing internal struggles between Sun 's hardware unit — which wants the new NFS as soon as possible for its next generation multi-processing servers — and SunSoft , which has already promised multi-threading for NFS , but wants the new features to be part of Solaris 2.1 or higher , and 2.1 is n't expected until mid-1993 . |
| 7 | As Kenneth Clark states in his classic study The Nude : ‘ [ Artists ] have found it easier to compose harmoniously the larger units of a woman 's torso ; they have been grateful for its smoother transitions , and above all they have discovered analogies with satisfying geometrical forms , the oval , the ellipsoid and the sphere ’ . |
| 8 | And soon afterwards we were grateful for its responsive power steering and generous reserves of torque ( perfect for those 1:5 hills ) to take the climb up Winnat 's Pass with ease . |
| 9 | And soon afterwards we were grateful for its responsive power steering and generous reserves of torque ( perfect for those 1:5 hills ) to take the climb up Winnat 's Pass with ease . |
| 10 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 11 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 12 | At every stage of the arms race there was no intrinsic benefit in being tall for its own sake . |
| 13 | A WARM , sharply observed drama of female friendship , girlhood dreams and adult realities , Liz Lochhead 's 1988 play ( substantially revised by the author for this Brunton Theatre company production ) is memorable for its affectionate understanding of the rich , funny and moving complexity of ordinary people 's lives . |
| 14 | We therefore have cleaner technology as a main aim , and we see growing recognition by industry of the value of this for its economic well-being and international competitiveness . |
| 15 | The April 1990 general election had left the ND dependent for its single-seat majority on the support of the sole DIANA deputy Theodoros Katsikis [ incorrectly named as Kostis Stefanopoulos on p. 37388 ] who in July joined the ND . |
| 16 | She was quite uncritical of the sad , grand dress ; she understood only the pale , still doubtful , beauty , so wrong for its present period , so touching in its failure to be recognized or to please . |
| 17 | Unlike these cities , Dublin is thought of first and foremost for its literary heritage , rather than for its art . |
| 18 | Compaq said demand is very high for its new generation of personal computers , launched in March , and the new generation of ProLinea and the Contura notebook line are backlogged with resellers . |
| 19 | The crusading Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser assails this almost weekly for its alleged distribution of ‘ jobs for the boys ’ — and girls , many from the councillors ' own families . |
| 20 | You will see that I placed the two arrangements diagonally opposite from each other , but of course you can alter this to a continuous design around the edge , leaving the centre of the mirror free , or simply decorate the bottom of the mirror , leaving the rest free for its original purpose ! |
| 21 | On the other side of the Lincolnshire Wolds , 13 miles south of Louth , Horncastle was ‘ a thriving and well-built market town , distinguished for its extensive horse fairs ’ . |
| 22 | At the same time the book became popular for its literary merits with the Romantic Movement , who preferred a naïve and spontaneous style to the studied and artificial manner of the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food . |
| 24 | It is popular for its special scenery of lakes , hills , woods and forests and because the M6 motorway makes it easy to get to from many parts of England . |
| 25 | It 's not an especially taxing route and is waymarked for its whole length with green markers . |
| 26 | ‘ The horse is too clever for its own good ! ’ is a frequent complaint when a horse evades or refuses to do what is expected of it . |
| 27 | His mouth was set hard and his eyes were filled with a cold rage that was all the more dangerous for its very restraint . |
| 28 | It was most unusual in British politics , as much for its measured orderliness as for its warmth . |
| 29 | Cole continues : That explanation is significant as much for its excusatory tone as for its substance ; and the excuse is of the Pioneers , decision to establish a production arm as a separate entity from the consumer society , a decision pointing production for consumer co-operatives along a road to the industrial co-operative form of organisation , along a road it was not to take . |
| 30 | The area is noted as much for its natural beauty as for its industrial history — it was here , in the lush valleys of Derbyshire that the first stirrings of the Industrial Revolution were felt and today working mills and factory shops testify to this heritage . |