Example sentences of "[noun sg] in its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Little wonder that the savage Saxons regarded Christianity as a Frankish method of suppression and control rather than a true religion in its own right .
2 The Board gave indications of its thinking in its first Report to the Lord Chancellor and in a consultation paper issued in May 1989 .
3 But Mark 3 stock in its conventional form has been involved in accidents , and has been found to stand up with little crushing and buckling in potentially horrific situations where in older stock casualties might have been high .
4 After You Watch activities for the Episode in its complete form , and for each of the four Sections .
5 It was not the UN 's fault that heavily armed SWAPO guerrillas violated the Namibian peace deal in its first hours by crossing the border into the territory ( see page 75 ) .
6 His landscapes convey a direct corporeal perception in its very picture , circumstance and complexion of the instant . ’
7 The building is lofty and light in its tall nave and choir , with the shafts of the ribbed vaults ascending unbroken between the high clerestory windows .
8 Applying such reasoning in its full rigour would reduce the division between jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional error to vanishing point .
9 The contemporary historicism , fuelled by Marx and Foucault , presents history as a force in its own right , ceaselessly dramatizing clashes of class and power .
10 Computers , he believes , are far from ideal as conceptual tools in the early design process , but their dazzling versatility has become a design force in its own right .
11 It shows that the nature of political power in capitalist societies is very different under monopoly capitalism than under liberal capitalism , and it indicates that the state can act as a political force in its own right against both capital and labour .
12 The development of its taste for small water creatures as a main ingredient in its omnivorous diet may be similar to the trend that occurred in our own ancient ancestors during the intermediate stage on the way to becoming the first hunting primates .
13 Buoyed up by the promising start , the company took the plunge and introduced Quorn as an ingredient in its own right two years ago .
14 This arises naturally , because ultimately consciousness in its highest essence is also Love .
15 This means that consciousness in its ideological form is not merely arbitrarily determined by material relations but is specifically determined by the set of economic relations existing in a given society .
16 The first one shows her bedroom in its usual state .
17 The first example is the government 's emphasis on private investment in its inner city programmes in which private funds are seen as a preferred alternative to public finance .
18 And I think I need to place this issue of inward investment in its proper context in terms of the county council 's economic development strategy and the planning strategy for the county .
19 Direct investment in its own distribution and marketing allows Guinness to manage its brands , in the context of international brand strategies .
20 AEA investment in its Corporate Investment in Research and Exploitation — CIRE — programme currently equates to around five to six per cent of business turnover .
21 It was this approach that Spaniards were reminded of on 31 March 1947 , as they listened to Franco 's reedy voice on the radio , telling them that the time had come to " confront the ultimate definition of [ their ] State , inseparably linked to the statute of succession in its highest echelons " .
22 What were the relationships between the politics , policy , and theory of Keynesianism in its golden age ?
23 The committee made no allusion to the former President in its final conclusions .
24 It will take to the air and leave Britain for Africa where it will winter , before returning the next year to become a brood parasite in its own right .
25 This would help protect Jaguar from fluctuations in the dollar-sterling exchange rate — the principal factor behind the collapse in its pre-tax profits in the first half of the year to £1.2m .
26 I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes .
27 He is also chairman of Lloyd 's , the insurance market which is expected to announce the worst loss in its 300-year history later this month .
28 However , SGI expects to make a loss in its second quarter results absorbing a $90m-$110m charge from its acquisition .
29 Wimpey is launching the cash-raising exercise just three months after reporting the worst loss in its 100-year history , a £112.4m deficit in 1992 .
30 Wimpey is launching the cash-raising exercise just three months after reporting the worst loss in its 100-year history , a £112.4m deficit in 1992 .
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