Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the water , it breathes with its gills like any normal fish , but like the bichir it uses its lungs too , rising every now and then to gulp air from the surface , a talent which is particularly valuable when the water in the pools becomes tepid and foul and loses most of its oxygen . |
| 2 | These in turn travel around the body and under their influence it begins its development into adult form . |
| 3 | But through tight management it worked its way through a difficult year without having to call upon its bankers for an overdraft . |
| 4 | In its panic it broke its antlers , shard by shard , tine by tine . |
| 5 | With a lazy air of calculated menace it shut its lid slowly grinding Rincewind 's impromptu wedge like a dry loaf . |
| 6 | As such a unique exercise it had its rewards and its penalties . |
| 7 | When science forsakes this basis it loses its way . |
| 8 | Once Today moved into Rupert Murdoch 's News group it changed its politics ; its neutral stance and its support for a middle-of-the-road SDP government in the 1987 general election gradually gave way to a more Conservative outlook . |
| 9 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 10 | Now , foreign dogmatism threatens to drive the government down a road it abhors — forcing it to oblige industry to take back and recycle the packaging it ships its product in . |
| 11 | When IBM stock hit bottom with a such resounding thud last month it cost its shareholders more than $6 billion , 17.5% of total capitalisation . |
| 12 | As a matter of policy it kept its neighbours in a state of disarray and weakness , although it was frequently able to leave them to achieve this on their own — for example by Iraq 's costly attack on Iran in 1950 . |
| 13 | Instead of burrowing into the foliage it makes its home in the stems of aquatic plants . |
| 14 | In a later diary entry on 17th August , Crossman noted that the Ulster situation was awful and depressing , but , ‘ Nevertheless , from the point of view of the government it has its advantages . |
| 15 | As a seduction suite it had its shortcomings , he reflected as he unzipped his jeans , stepped out of them , and slung them onto the sofa with the rest of the day 's rubbish . |
| 16 | Most universities and higher technical institutions use it , and of course it maintains its position as the link language with the rest of the world . |
| 17 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |
| 18 | On the one hand it expressed its unease , recalling the need for a comprehensive solution which ‘ must translate into fact the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland ’ , but on the other hand certain members of the Community — Britain , Italy , the Netherlands and France — agreed to help implement the treaty militarily . |
| 19 | Well , in the first place obviously the size of the sex cell Er , er its genes , the size of the sex cell , the food it gives its offspring , the protection it gives it , the transportation , education , instruction , protection , er you name it erm whatever the parent does , in the case of birds , warmth is a major factor , incubating the eggs . |
| 20 | Ford began changing the way it treated its suppliers in 1980 by rating them for qual ity . |
| 21 | The future of the ABA was threatened last year when the Council withdrew funding , insisting that the boxing organisation needed to change the way it managed its affairs . |
| 22 | In 1986 , one of America 's largest and oldest enterprises announced that it was changing the way it assigned its personnel : the US Army discarded a system that assigned soldiers to their units individually in favor of a system that keeps teams of soldiers together for their entire tours of duty . |
| 23 | As a result of the reports and the discussions upon them in Senate and Council , the University is revising the way it does its business . |
| 24 | We will not track the development of the MEP in detail but , despite many criticisms of the way it achieved its objectives , it certainly established the widespread use of computers in British schools . |
| 25 | It has been conducting an urgent review of the way it manages its affairs and is embarking upon a further review of the number and function of its various committees . |
| 26 | Novell has become famous for the way it manages its relationships and believes that relationships are the way to conduct business . |
| 27 | Because teachers ' centres and the increase of in-service education in the late 1970s and 1980s occurred outside schools , there was some separation between the flow of curriculum development in the sense in which it was supported in schools by the work of advisers and advisory teachers and in the way it made its impact on individual teachers through regular courses of familiarization and in-service education . |
| 28 | Like many similar inquiries in recent years into Britain 's research spending , the report points out that the UK is unusual among many Western nations in the way it allocates its R&D . |
| 29 | In this way it secured its base . |
| 30 | It suggests that Microsoft is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour in the way it sells DOS to hardware manufacturers , and in the way it uses its lead in the operating systems business to gain advantages with its apps software . |