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 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 . |
| 3 | The inner mind is simply different in its essential configuration . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Language , Truth and Logic makes the ‘ no meaning ’ atheist position clear in its first chapter , ‘ The Elimination of Metaphysics ’ : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | During the campaign period the DPP had purposely been less strident in its controversial advocacy of Taiwanese independence . |
| 8 | She had thought the department store that stood opposite the theatre unassailable in its pale-green elegance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is n't playing by the rules , it 's sometimes beautiful , sometimes energising , sometimes soothing and often funny in its own way . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was an arduous process which became tangled in its own complexity leaving juries baffled and the legal and financial regulatory systems exposed . |
| 14 | The spice-box is delectable in its fragrance , Chagallian in its rich mixture of images and responses . |
| 15 | Ellen 's manner was almost British in its cool restraint , matching our welcome which we had deliberately pitched at a low key . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | He could imagine that she might be interested in its money-making propensity at the end of the year . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This seaworthy offshore cruiser is a modified design that became popular in its own right . |
| 22 | In each case the addictive disease is probably in-born in its fundamental tendency . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nikolai Ryabov , the deputy chairman of parliament and a leading conservative , told Russian television at the beginning of May that , though the president 's draft of a new constitution was not acceptable in its current form , ‘ these obstacles are not insurmountable ’ . |
| 26 | It makes psychology more scientific in its own terms ; it improves women , s standing in the discipline ; and it provides feminist psychologists and feminists in general with some interesting data . |
| 27 | According to the ethologists , behaviour is interesting in its own right ( Ewert 1980 ) . |
| 28 | Again , the journal entry is more interesting in its original version than in the published account . |
| 29 | Because it is pathological it must not be allowed to appear in public in its own form . |
| 30 | And the ability of many insects to see the infrared and microwave emanations of particular molecules or of particular plants , for instance , is intriguing in its wider implications as it relates to the overall balance and economy of nature . |