Example sentences of "[be] in its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table . |
| 2 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 3 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 4 | It could be argued that since children from about the age of eight years can create their own mental images and since , according to Shirley Hughes ( 1983 , unpaged ) ‘ The best pictures any child sees are in its own head ’ , there is little need for pictures in books for older children . |
| 5 | For this reason , most questions about the importance of media turn out to be questions about something else : the interest in media will typically be in its possible role as a cause of some particular effect . |
| 6 | They are as evenly divided in their own minds as the nation appears to be in its ultimate decision . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , the original concept of driving a flight simulator by the flight data recorder can now be considered to be in its first stage of development . |
| 8 | Top Of The Pops , reported to be in its dying days , trailed in as the seventh best TV programme . |
| 9 | However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right , there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth storey window while trying to rescue him . |
| 10 | But at some point we are bound to stop and ask if what we are studying , however important it may be in its own terms , is sufficiently central to its presumed subject . |
| 11 | One of the several things we would advise any visitor to San Gimignano to do is to be in its main square , Piazza della Cisterna , towards evening when the light of the setting sun tinges the buildings with delicate colours . |
| 12 | If errors occurred only within Delete Old Modules , the safe copies of the database files should be restored to the process directory and the LIFESPAN system may be restarted — it will be in its previous state , and it should be possible for work on the system to continue . |
| 13 | Mr Bérégovoy , who so prided himself as a good manager , had to hear Edouard Balladur , the new prime minister , describe the economy as being in its worst state since the second world war . |
| 14 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |
| 15 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 16 | Females and immatures even harder to distinguish , but adult female differs from Hen-Harrier in slenderer build and narrower white rump patch , and from Montagu 's in its blackish throat ruff . |
| 17 | Right there 's erm it 's a tin of fruit salad but I 've put in some er kiwi and grapes so it 's fresh fruit , it 's in its own juice , so it 's not in a heavy thick juice , there 's Viennetta or you can have a bit of each |
| 18 | This remnant of a country may be slipping towards a ‘ future ’ rather like Albania 's in its Stalinist days , or present-day Cuba 's . |
| 19 | Because the channel is in its low-affinity state , it may be positioned on the cGMP dose-response curve to be sensitive to a small decrease in free cGMP concentration , thus facilitating its closure . |
| 20 | Make sure that each figure in your answers is in its correct place . |
| 21 | They make sure fire instructions are clearly displayed and that fire fighting equipment is in its correct place . |
| 22 | They are unlikely to negotiate a formal end to the Gulf war while Iran 's leadership is in its present condition of internecine turmoil . |
| 23 | The scheme is the inspiration of David Furnell , who has close connections with Hemel Hempstead CC and whose company 's sponsorship of the Hertfordshire League 's knockout competition , the Furnell Transport Cup , is in its seventh year . |
| 24 | Science , for instance , is in its seventh edition . |
| 25 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 26 | The Durman body , actually , is in its best shape for years : I 've lost over half a stone on my How-To-Stop-Them-Laughing-On-The-Beach diet , I 'm taking more exercise and generally feeling better all round . |
| 27 | Where the book falls down is in its idiosyncratic layout and the poor quality of the colour reproductions ( I refer to the Flammarion edition ) . |
| 28 | The main interest of this church is in its interior mosaics because much of the building has been altered in later times . |
| 29 | This momentum is a measure of the average electron momentum if the gas of electrons is in its lowest energy state , i.e. it is degenerate . |
| 30 | The antique fountain-pen market is in its early stages , with the first International Pen Show and Auction being held in Geneva , November 1–3 . |