Example sentences of "[prep] its [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 2 | So unusual was this setup that during its early days we even had dealers contacting us to discover how it was being done ! |
| 3 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 4 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 5 | For a dynamic company which is growing through its own efforts it is important that we should have other and new businesses of a similar nature coming along . |
| 6 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 7 | Dr Greene came with increasing frequency to the house to examine his patient , and although the baby was large for its gestational age it seemed healthy and active , with a strong , regular heartbeat . |
| 8 | The irony is that once we no longer desperately need another person but really enjoy life for its own sake we are far more likely to make a satisfying relationship . |
| 9 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 10 | If the field of strategic management is to render the concept of strategic vision suitable for its own purposes it must deal with it in a unique way . |
| 11 | For its main participants it was more of a family row . |
| 12 | However , because it is new , there is no single systematic source of information about its elected members--who they are , their particular interests and their political activities . |
| 13 | A good hotel to stay at : apart from the excellence of its discreet service it had two exits . |
| 14 | Because of its aromatic properties it was preferred to spice in the making of aquavitae . |
| 15 | A more detailed treatment of epeirogenic uplift is to be found in McGetchin and Merrill ( 1979 ) ; in spite of its general title it is almost solely concerned with the Colorado Plateau , but it does contain a brief but wide-ranging review of uplift mechanisms . |
| 16 | Because of its shaped construction it 's less liable to be crushed as water passes through , and debris builds up . |
| 17 | True , there is a stream Kingsdale Beck , draining the slopes of Whernside at the head of the valley and accompanying the road down but for much of its early journey it prefers to travel under rather than on its limestone bed and remains out of sight and hearing . |
| 18 | And in terms of its practical record he says , ‘ Whatever our misgivings , it is difficult not to feel a sense of admiration and gratitude for a movement that , in less than a century , through its direct action in some areas and through indirect influence in labour movements and other social forces in others , has raised to a human condition the life of at least half of the human race . ’ |
| 19 | It can attain magnitude 6.7 , and is then within binocular range , but for most of its 465-day period it is too faint . |
| 20 | The Party was very conscious of the fact that in spite of its large majority it had fared very badly in the inner urban areas , and it was without question this result which prompted Mrs Thatcher to state immediately after the election that policies for the inner city were to have top priority . |
| 21 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 22 | It omitted to mention how much of its ever-increasing charges it contributed to WaterAid . |
| 23 | If a company publishes any of its statutory accounts they must be accompanied by the auditors ' report and if it is required to prepare statutory group accounts it may not publish its ( statutory ) individual accounts unless they are accompanied by its statutory group accounts . |
| 24 | Yet in spite of its obvious advantages it has not been received with any enthusiasm by the large corporations or indeed funding bodies of any description . |
| 25 | Even though it has n't been domesticated , it is something of a large version of the pig above , and on parts of its eponymous island it has also hybridised with European wild boars : ie , at one end of Java the pigs are Javan warties , at the other end they 're wild boars , and in the middle they 're half and half . |
| 26 | It can rise to magnitude 6.8 , and can be distinguished by its redness , but for most of its 278-day period it is out of binocular range . |
| 27 | R Ophiuchi , a Mira star , lies in the field with Eta ; it can rise to the seventh magnitude , but for most of its 302-day period it is far below binocular range . |
| 28 | The Lanc that been allocated to the RAF Museum was PA474 and after the end of its active life it was flown into the Museum 's storage and restoration facility at Henlow on September 25 , 1964 , to await the opening of a new museum . |
| 29 | Margaret Thatcher and the kind of neutral policy analysis the tank produced simply do not mix : ‘ Of its very existence it sort of encapsulated a view about government for which she had no great sympathy . |
| 30 | Of its own volition hers went into it like a homing pigeon while her mind was still saying , ‘ No way , signore . ’ |