Example sentences of "[noun pl] of its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill became a delightful residence in 1968 and , despite its domestic role , still manages to retain the unmistakable characteristics of its former uses . |
| 2 | Apple 's publication Human Interface Guidelines ( Apple Computer 1987 ) set out the 10 chief characteristics of its own GUI as follows : |
| 3 | He merely nodded , and Theda was left to contemplate the thicket as they approached , the stark silhouettes of its close-packed trees , still bare of leaves , jutting from the heavy underbrush like so many giant goblins . |
| 4 | Built upon mudbanks and made great by maritime dominion during the centuries of its republican independence , it magnificently called it self the Queen of the Adriatic , and each year its rulers ritually married the ocean in a ceremony of sumptuous allegory . |
| 5 | However , the figures are certainly compelling enough to suggest that features other than anti-Semitism dominated the image of the Nazi Party in the eyes of its pre-1933 membership . |
| 6 | Their approach was similar to Gouldner 's in attempting ‘ to see the strike through the eyes of its different groups of participants ’ ( p.18 ) . |
| 7 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 8 | Its army was invincible ; its palaces unparalleled ; the domes of its many mosques quite literally glittered with gold . |
| 9 | Even the pointed vocal melodies of its strongest tracks , ‘ Stopping The World ’ and ‘ Upside Down ’ , do not cut out of the level bed of instrumentation . |
| 10 | However , Mar delayed in an attempt to raise more men , which allowed the British government time to build up concentrations of its own troops and collect reinforcements from its foreign allies . |
| 11 | Memorably he describes the soul 's glimpses of its distant goal , as " smale sodeyn glideren out smale caues fro citee " [ caues : crannies ] ( 25.92v. – 238 ) . |
| 12 | The commission would say that these are precisely the goals of its present research programmes ; that may be so , but the reality is different . |
| 13 | The goals of its ambulatory care initiative were to improve access — for example , by maximising the hours when clinics were open and linking them closely to back up services in the hospitals , increasing the comprehensiveness of care on offer , improving continuity ( by linking regular attenders to an identified primary care team ) , and making the management of the clinics more autonomous and more accountable . |
| 14 | Or rather , it was bumping and grinding the heels of its expensive floats against the tarmac on a lee shore — so we all clambered aboard as quickly as possible . |
| 15 | Taiwan 's Macronix International has licensed MIPS Computer Systems Inc 's R3000 RISC on the heels of its fellow countryman Acer Corp taking the R4000 . |
| 16 | But it keeps the cars of its urban elites running , reduces the balance of payments ( Brazil has the world 's largest foreign loans debt ) and creates jobs in the rural areas ( Brazil needs two million new jobs a year ; Proalcool is said to have already created more than 50,000 jobs ; one job is created for every 20,000 litres of alcohol produced [ Mendonca , 1980 ] ) . |
| 17 | The Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) has agreed to open up 600,000 acres of its extensive land holdings for environmental research , and to offer the use of some of its ships , aircraft and personnel to help in the work . |
| 18 | HALL Engineering is selling 7.2 acres of its 35-acre site formerly occupied by its RBC subsidiary in Stafford , to Safeway for £6.06m . |
| 19 | Not only are there vines as far as the eye can see from its brand-new winemaking centre in Vertus , but the company also owns nearly 310 acres of its own vineyards , most of them sited on the Côte des Blancs . |
| 20 | It was also , in his view , unpardonable on grounds of principle , since by the autumn of 1940 Vichy seemed to be aligning itself with the foreign policy of the Nazi regime and aspects of its political ideology . |
| 21 | Some observers claimed to detect a deliberate move on the part of Suharto and his advisers to distance Indonesia from the USA following criticism by the administration of US President Bush of Indonesia 's human rights record and aspects of its economic policy . |
| 22 | It follows that whenever a large system is about to be built there always exists a considerable uncertainty about many aspects of its required behaviour , the interaction with its environment , its constituent components and their interrelationships . |
| 23 | Cell Interactions in Atherosclerosis does not address all aspects of its broad title , but it does provide an interesting collection of articles focused largely on morphological studies of atherosclerosis , transplant arteriopathy , and experimental atherosclerosis in the rabbit . |
| 24 | On 1 April a further step in the Library 's plans to automate aspects of its printed collections was achieved with the implementation of the VTLS Serials control module . |
| 25 | New drugs and agrochemicals are often developed by direct modification of an existing compound to mimic or enhance some aspects of its biological behaviour . |
| 26 | During this period the party abandoned aspects of its Marxist ideology , a process which culminated in the change of the English translation of its name in early 1991 [ see p. 38010 ] . |
| 27 | The characteristic impedance of a T-section of a constant-k , band-pass , ladder filter is from equations ( 9.1 ) , ( 9.48 ) and ( 9.49 ) However , the usual procedure is to terminate such a ladder with resistance k given by equation ( 9.48 ) , in which case the performances of its later sections depart somewhat from that indicated by figure 9.6(b) . |
| 28 | It is , in the words of its financial adviser Sohei Nakayama of the Industrial Bank of Japan , the project 's main financiers , ‘ the first time that a corporation has decided to found and manage a whole city ’ . |
| 29 | The high cost of transporting goods from European Russia made the Russians of Siberian like the Mongolian and Turkic peoples of its southern regions , largely dependent upon textiles imported from that other centre of high culture — China . |
| 30 | Now owned and operated by ICONA , the aircraft was formerly C-FIZZ , part of the Canadian-based Avalon Aviation fleet ( FP , October 90 , p61 ) , traces of its fire-bombing code ‘ 795 ’ can still be seen on the forward fuselage . |