Example sentences of "[noun sg] of its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't have to be high tech , even in a high tech industry , to bring home the bacon , and Lion Cabinets Ltd of Leeds repeated its 1991 success with yet another award for the export of its mild steel enclosures and mountings for computer peripherals to the US , Germany , Italy and Israel . |
| 2 | Beyond these factors were the numerical weakness and cultural backwardness of the working class , the low average productivity of labour ( even if the factories could be put back to work ) , the vastness of the land area and the isolation of its rural inhabitants , the barbaric inheritance of Tsarism — all in comparison with the exiguous forces of the Bolshevik party . |
| 3 | Last year a group of 45 Fortune 500 chief executives and university presidents , known as the Business-Higher Education Forum , published a report saying that the country could not ignore the growing isolation of its inner-city minorities . |
| 4 | Thinking of its dirty stringiness , Julia could not help flinching . |
| 5 | They were looking , he told the delegates , for a socialism that ‘ renounced everything that deformed socialism in the 1930s and that led to its stagnation in the 1970s ’ , a socialism that would inherit the ‘ best elements ’ of the thinking of its founding fathers together with the constructive achievements of other countries and social systems . |
| 6 | St. Martin 's was rebuilt over twenty years after the sack , which implies there was no extensive damage to its structure , and although All Saints ' was also rebuilt at this time , a great deal of its thirteenth-century architecture survived . |
| 7 | American , other analysts noted , has had several months to prepare contingencies for a hostile takeover attempt , and probably has a restructuring deal of its own waiting in the wings . |
| 8 | A good deal of its urban manifestation , as espoused by Mr Sillars , often seems to owe more to hatred of Labour — the barrier to its ambitions — than love of Scotland . |
| 9 | His sense of the delicate interrelation between reading , meditation and prayer is set out at the beginning of the chapter on contemplation : Here meditation has a mediating function : a process in which insight is received like a gift , much as the process of analysing a poem mysteriously yields a new integrated perception of its whole meaning which transcends the conscious process of study . |
| 10 | This variation on the theme is bursting with extravagant quantities of kumquats and comes to table sitting in a pond of its own sauce . |
| 11 | And the operations in France support and work with the company 's reseller community , which bring in the bulk of its European revenues . |
| 12 | And the operations in France support and work with the company 's reseller community , which bring in the bulk of its European revenues . |
| 13 | It has preferred instead to concentrate the bulk of its intellectual energies on developing a critique of capitalism and the bulk of its political energies on the devising of strategies for its removal . |
| 14 | It is soundly led and NCM did well to place the bulk of its existing portfolio into the reinsurance market — not an easy feat . |
| 15 | STANDARD Chartered yesterday announced plans to sell the bulk of its continental banking operations for £150m in a pan-European tie-up with Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale . |
| 16 | By 1936 the individual Party membership had risen to 430,000 , constituting 20 per cent of Labour 's nominal strength and the great bulk of its active supporters . |
| 17 | The Forestry Commission owns the bulk of its 28,500 acres and manages several nature reserves jointly with bodies such as the Nature Conservancy Council , Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Gloucestershire Trust for Nature Conservation . |
| 18 | Campaigners against the project point out that a mixture of economic recession and growing enthusiasm for energy efficiency may deprive Hydro-Quebec of the bulk of its potential revenue from the scheme , in the form of orders from US power supply companies , who are believed to be reconsidering the need to import power from Canada . |
| 19 | Relations with Taiwan were expected to be downgraded to " representative " status , but Taiwan 's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation was expected to continue to buy the bulk of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia . |
| 20 | It has preferred instead to concentrate the bulk of its intellectual energies on developing a critique of capitalism and the bulk of its political energies on the devising of strategies for its removal . |
| 21 | The chimney swift of Asia manages to collect twigs by flying at a branch , seizing one with its beak and breaking it off by the sheer force of its aerial velocity . |
| 22 | This definition was summed up in the formula libertas ecclesiae , by which was understood the independence of the Church from all lay interference in ecclesiastical appointments , in the exercise of the Church 's spiritual functions , in the administration of its temporal rights and properties , and in the immunity of clerical persons from secular jurisdiction . |
| 23 | Even a small council such as a parish council has to have an officer responsible for the administration of its financial affairs although this duty may well fall upon the clerk . |
| 24 | Edinburgh 's Chambers Street has quite enough museum provision already , and the primary responsibility of Edinburgh University 's Court is the administration of its educational facility . |
| 25 | This gives the workforce both a much greater capacity to coerce management and a consciousness of its collective power , claims Mallet . |
| 26 | Following the recommendation of its armed services committee , the Senate passed a defence bill by 79 votes to 16 on Aug. 4 , which imposed deep cuts , amounting to $18,000 million , in the defence budget request of $307,000 million put forward by Bush for fiscal 1991 ( beginning October 1990 ) . |
| 27 | Against the recommendation of its constitutional commission , the Senate , the upper house of the Polish parliament , passed on Sept. 10 the " small constitution " adopted by the Sejm ( lower house ) on Aug. 1 [ see p. 39063 ] . |
| 28 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 29 | In sum then , while acknowledging the stature of some elements of this constellation , such as the historical aspects of Foucault 's work or the critical élan of Fredric Jameson ( not to mention the giant figure of Habermas ) , Callinicos develops a root and branch assault on claims for the cultural distinction of the ‘ postmodern ’ , for the conceptual adequacy of its theoretical base , and above all for the deleterious political consequences of adherence to it . |
| 30 | The main drawback to this account is Seiji Ozawa 's seeming lack of total control over the inherent pulse : this masterpiece demands a profound appreciation of its structural unity , which is not always apparent here , beguiled the while as we are by Ms Mutter 's enthralling seductiveness . |