Example sentences of "[conj] of its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The court may upon application or of its own motion adjourn or advance the date of hearing of any proceeding . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bukharin argued , moreover , that primitive accumulation belongs to the prehistory of capitalism and therefore does not belong to a consideration of its history proper nor of its modern functioning . |
| 9 | There is ample room within the synaptic interactions of even 20,000 neurons for their properties to be those of the system rather than of its individual cells , and claims which were once popular that within insect and crustacean nervous systems one could find key ‘ command ’ neurons have gone the same way as , in eastern Europe , parallel enthusiasm for ‘ command economies ’ — that is , they turn out to be not a good way to organize individual behaviour any more than to run a country . |
| 10 | Even Britain 's Labour Party is looking at PR , if less because of Liberal complaints than of its own fears that FPTP — which in the past served it well — may leave its Tory rivals for ever running solid one-party governments on 40% of the vote . |
| 11 | But to visualise the nation stripped both of its territorial significance and of its ethnic assumptions is to ask too much of the imagination . |
| 12 | He was the natural and inevitable enemy of their country and of its liberal democracy . |
| 13 | Figure 21.12 illustrates this by showing distributions of τ and of its two contributions measured in a zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer . |
| 14 | Like all prisoners of circumstance , you will probably reflect a good deal on the whole subject of ‘ time ’ and of its strange habits of hanging , dragging , or running out too quickly , but if you decide to use and dominate it , instead of allowing it to dominate you , you will inevitably come to the conclusion that it is only wasted if it is thrown away , never when it is offered freely , as a gift of love . |
| 15 | The Teesside events were crucially important at this stage of the development both of the CNAA and of its associated institutions , but the outcomes were ambiguous . |
| 16 | A second theme has been a particular criticism of the Treasury and of its economic policies ; in particular that too much emphasis has been placed on the balance of payments or prevention of inflation , while the need for economic growth was neglected . |
| 17 | The British policy stance since 1962 has been sceptical of space in general , and of its economic viability in particular . |
| 18 | In the first of the examples given , so long as the profits of the business are remitted to be dealt with under the English partnership agreement and the same persons are partners of the English firm and of its overseas branch , the branch office practice will be covered by the Indemnity Fund . |
| 19 | Towards an understanding of the predictability of discourse and of its educational function . |
| 20 | First , he identified the foundations of the tenth-century cathedral of Saint Lambert and of its Gothic successor , but then he found an extensive second- to third-century AD Roman villa . |
| 21 | It will be aware of its master , in that it hears and smells him , and of its own exertions , in that it is awake , but it will not be aware that it recognises him , for this is of the order of tomorrow 's delayed return — a linguistic belief of which dumb brutes are incapable . |
| 22 | Directly and of its own accord , it has ‘ not a little contributed towards spoiling the most useful parts of knowledge ’ : ‘ the plainest things in the world , those we are most intimately acquainted with , and perfectly know , when they are considered in an abstract way , appear strangely difficult and incomprehensible . ’ |
| 23 | Had local authorities still the influence over schools which was diminished by the Education Reform Act , it would have been commonplace for each authority to compare the performance of its own policies and of its own schools with a national standard . |
| 24 | Yet he gives us an authentic account of his epoch and of its medical habits . |
| 25 | It is part of the function of a linguistic theory , and of its linguistic description of the English language , to specify what linguistic categories there are and what are the contrastive relations between them . |
| 26 | A member of the central committee of the Iran Communist Party and of its Kurdish guerrilla section Komaleh , Bahman Javadi , was shot dead on Aug. 26 , 1989 , by a group of gunmen on the streets of Larnaca in Cyprus . |
| 27 | In the short run , the chief impact of the Volksfront will be to strengthen the hand of the white right — and of its quasi-secessionist ally , Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's Natal-based Inkatha Freedom Party — in the continuing constitutional negotiations . |
| 28 | But it is not until the 1840s that an awareness , not only of the gulf between rich and poor , but of its dangerous significance in the lurid light of revolution , comes into being . |
| 29 | This is not a question , as a layman might think , of the size of a sample but of its genuine randomness . |
| 30 | But the view that poverty is the consequence not of the failure of growth but of its very success is one that needs to be taken seriously . |