Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as we can be aware the infant , in its earliest stages , can not distinguish between " self " and " non-self " , or between its own perceptions and sensations and the phenomena which trigger them . |
| 2 | It is , however , extremely rare for a Bill to be rejected , or for its main proposals to be overturned by amendment , except by lapsing upon the dissolution of a Parliament . |
| 3 | Indeed he says that the principle of ‘ heresy ’ enters a social formation either through cultural contact or through its indigenous class divisions . |
| 4 | As Davies told the Fabians , ‘ collective responsibility under these circumstances was a sham ’ : ‘ The Cabinet was not informed of the existence of this group , or of its critical decisions . |
| 5 | The Companies Act 1985 provides that the consent of shareholders is required for the sale of 10% or more of a company 's net tangible assets , or of assets valued at £100,000 or more , to a director of the company or of its holding company . |
| 6 | The Department of Employment therefore proposed an alternative of giving industrial tribunal chairmen , acting alone , discretion at the pre-hearing stage , on the application of one of the parties or of its own motion , to require a deposit of up to £150 from the other party as a condition of proceeding further , if the chairman considered that the case had no reasonable prospect of success . |
| 7 | The court may upon application or of its own motion adjourn or advance the date of hearing of any proceeding . |
| 8 | As well as the procedure of giving directions on the pre-trial review , the court may on the application on notice of any party , or of its own motion , give directions at any time ( Ord 13 , r 2 ) . |
| 9 | The situation was now very different from that in the 1950s when defences of the value of the English literary canon could be mounted on the basis of the educational centrality of English studies , or of its psychological force , or even of its humanism . |
| 10 | Even in contemporary Western democracies , a government so powerfully entrenched that it may not feel troubled by the agitation of its enemies , detractors or of its powerless minorities , may court the danger of violent reaction . |
| 11 | Such movements were expected when the current interest rate was well above or below its long-run mean , and there was a high degree of reversion each time period . |
| 12 | America could strike alone or with its reluctant allies . |
| 13 | Secured with most adult lap belts , lap/diagonal seat belts or with its own anchorage kit ( available separately ) . |
| 14 | So the media of prose and verse ‘ pivot ’ too , shifting in value or significance as a character moves within the society of the play , or within its internal hierarchy of language and values . |
| 15 | Elitism , either in its traditional or in its recent form , appears profoundly critical of the pretensions of modern liberal democracy , though in different ways in each case . |
| 16 | This refers to the ability of the organization to continue in its present form or in its planned form . |
| 17 | The word fundamentalism is unfortunately used by the Western press as the ‘ thought represented by mediaeval Islam ’ — rather than Islam at its source or in its pristine form . |
| 18 | Also insured , in the same way as your caravan are your caravans equipment including fixtures , fittings , awnings , utensils , furniture and furnishings0 ( but not your personal effects ) , while in your caravan or in its immediate vicinity or removed to secure premises provided they fall within the maximum amount payable . |
| 19 | ‘ The rule as to unsoundness is that if at the time of sale , the horse has any disease which either actually does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , so as to make him less capable of work of any description of which in its ordinary progress will diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , or if the horse has , either from disease or accident undergone any alterations of structure that either actually does at the time , or in its ordinary effects will , diminish the natural usefulness of the horse , such a horse is unsound . ’ |
| 20 | The degree to which the ESSE/L Project can be seen to be radical either as an initiative , or in its actual impact in schools , depends on how close it comes to one or other of these doctrines . |
| 21 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 22 | Is Anderson using the word ‘ random ’ in its mathematical sense , as one out of a series , or in its statistical sense in which each item has an individual chance ? |
| 23 | The Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP , or in its Polish acronym PZPR ) , since August 1989 no longer the ruling party but with four ministers in the Solidarity-led coalition government , opened on Jan. 27 its 11th and final congress , dedicated to the task of disbanding itself . |
| 24 | The purchaser may discover either at the outset of negotiations or from its due diligence exercise that the ownership of the assets it wishes to buy is distributed amongst various companies in the vendor 's group . |
| 25 | Sovereignty is the , we 'll turn to it later , we 'll look at sovereignty again , but linked to sovereignty is the idea that you can make legislation , you can pass laws and then you can say these laws are going to be carried out , implemented by courts followed by sanctions though very little law is related to foreign policy because the British government or the Russian government or the United States government ca n't make laws which apply worldwide or outside its own area of claimed sovereignty so there is a difference of the environment in which foreign policy takes place . |
| 26 | At the top end the bourgeoisie was more or less distinct from the aristocracy ( high or low ) , depending partly on the legal and social exclusiveness of that group or on its own class-consciousness . |
| 27 | The court may , at any time , on application or on its own motion order that any money invested as funds in court under Ord 10 , r 11(1) ( " infants ' settlements " ) be transferred to another county court ( Ord 16 , r 5 ) . |
| 28 | In putting through Parliament the Law Commissions Act 1965 he created separate Law Commissions for England and Wales , and for Scotland , each with a seconded High Court judge as chairman , and a staff of qualified lawyers and others with the obligation to investigate particular questions referred to it , or on its own initiative to conduct a regular programme of inquiry into the general state of the law or any particular question , civil or criminal , which they chose to select . |
| 29 | When the little animal is disturbed it burrows furiously down into the ground until it has completely disappeared except for its horny rump . |
| 30 | The village of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ is situated beside the Marne canal , just east of Aÿ-Champagne and south of Avenay : few of its vines are located near the village itself , except for its best vineyard , a remarkable spur called the Clos des Goisses . |