Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light , clearing and brightening to the pure pale gold of primroses where its slanting rays could reach , still left the gatehouse and the court within the gates in shadow , and Tutilo kept his eyes on the cobbles and trod carefully , as though he could not see his way clearly . |
| 2 | AST Research Inc yesterday introduced the Premmia personal computer family , designed with a local-bus video subsystem claimed to yield more than 200% faster performance in Windows environments than its earlier generation Power Premium desktop systems which are cut $100 . |
| 3 | FERMACELL not only meets BS 476 , Part 22 , but also has longer built-in reserves than its direct competitors . |
| 4 | I took the comfortable two person tent with me on a number of solo trips as its packed size is small and the weight is good at 7lb 2oz , 3.25kg . |
| 5 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 6 | He remarks that in America especially there has always been a strong cross-racial homosexual attraction less restrained by social barriers than its heterosexual counterpart ; ‘ the very furtiveness and outlaw status of the gayworld has led to its greater integration across colour lines ’ . |
| 7 | To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature : at the Passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock , the holly whistles as it battles with itself , the ash hisses amid its quiverings , the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall … |
| 8 | It used both to good effect and at a further general election , held in October of the same year , won 42 more seats than its Conservative opponent . |
| 9 | But even by relying on biomass , Sweden will not meet its targets unless its overall energy needs are reduced by efficient technology . |
| 10 | The only exception to the ban will be linseed — which farmers can carry on burning for another three years because its fibrous stalks are difficult to plough in . |
| 11 | In Sind , traditionally regarded as its stronghold , the PPP won 43 out of 100 seats while its chief opponent , the MQM , won 47 . |
| 12 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |
| 13 | 150 years after its first branch opened in Rochdale , the new-look Co-Op was launched today in Cheltenham . |
| 14 | The commission has more money and wider powers than its feeble predecessor . |
| 15 | I wish my right hon. Friend luck in his negotiations over the common agricultural policy , but I do not believe that if it were modified , as a result of my right hon. Friend 's efforts , to suit all our needs , the British farming industry would be able to take sufficient advantage of the improved conditions if its own marketing arrangements had not also been improved . |
| 16 | This is not a contract of sale of goods because its principal object is the provision of services , Young & marten v. McManus Childs ( 1968 ) H.L. ) . |
| 17 | Poland had been penetrated with comparative ease by the partitioning military powers because its social structures made most of its population marginal in one way or another . |
| 18 | On July 3 , 1989 , the executive board of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) declared Panama ineligible to use the IMF 's general resources since its overdue payments had reached 129,300,000 special drawing rights at the end of the previous month . |
| 19 | In the meantime , Nimbus is taking advantage of the ‘ mix ‘ n match ’ features of Mbus to create a demonstration card bearing the 40MHz Cypress Sparc chip Sun uses to power its Galaxy machines as its single CPU , though it is aimed at multi-processors eventually . |
| 20 | ‘ Still the guns churned this treacherous slime , the surplus water poured into the trenches as its natural outlet , and they became impossible for the troops … men staggered warily over duckboards . |
| 21 | Tricord has already debuted the things as its 5000 series in the US running a variety of operating systems — though Sequent has an exclusive deal on NT versions . |
| 22 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc will launch its K2 series of multiprocessor Microsoft Corp Windows NT systems co-designed with Tricord Systems Inc on May 3 in the US — May 4 in the UK ( UX No 420 ) : Tricord has already launched the things as its 5000 series in the US running a variety of operating systems — though Sequent has an exclusive deal on NT versions ; as well as the low-end K2 boxes , Sequent will also be launching a series of high-end , Pentium-ready systems also said to be NT-capable . |
| 23 | Raw linseed may be better on light coloured woods because its darkening effect is less than boiled oil . |
| 24 | Spanish officials in Brussels insist that Spain has a right to increase emissions because its current rate is lower than most EC countries . |
| 25 | Varese 's Arcana needs equal pains if its enormous forces are to operate with clarity . |
| 26 | In spite of a number of important publications in the early 1980s which sought to take Edwardian Conservatism seriously , notably the work of Geoffrey Searle , Alan Sykes , and Gregory Phillips , the Conservative party remained the Cinderella of Edwardian historiography , languishing in the shadows while its ugly sisters , the Liberal and Labour parties , hogged the limelight . |
| 27 | The strength of teacher education , both initial and in-service , varies greatly from polytechnic to polytechnic , depending on such features as its previous commitment to and its present attitude towards the subject , the nature of the inheritance of qualified staff from the mergers with colleges of education , and the character of the courses and administration which have emerged . |
| 28 | Argos can offer goods at lower prices than its High Street competitors because it has n't got as many overheads . |
| 29 | Each can receive impulses from other cells , and each will ’ fire ’ and so stimulate other neurones if its own inputs trigger it . |
| 30 | Due to its generous Proportions it was Put to use on malefactors after its original owner had no further use for it . |