Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the original ‘ menu for policy choice ’ between inflation and unemployment , this is a trade off which no government worth its salt would dream of exploiting in all but the very short run . |
| 2 | I 'm inclined to believe that this probably happened after the guitar left the Hamer factory ; any quality control worth its salt would have picked it up , otherwise . |
| 3 | It has not sufficiently emphasised that the Church itself is in the process of becoming and through its disobedience can present a distorted or even completely erroneous picture of the Christian life . |
| 4 | Like a magician 's cabinet ( on which it was based ) , any Dalek going through its portal would cause a series of panels to flip round , thereby giving the impression it had vanished without it being obvious how it had vanished . |
| 5 | The other necessary component was the deceased 's name , which through its power could preserve life and identity . |
| 6 | A new three-year ‘ action plan ’ to evaluate the value that Europe gets for its money will bring in more outsiders as well as more peer group reviews and ‘ hearings ’ on the results of important project . |
| 7 | For sure Cabinets were made and unmade on the floor of the House , but the Cabinet for its part could unmake the House of Commons because it enjoyed the right to ask for a dissolution and after the election it could look for support from amongst members in a new House of Commons . |
| 8 | Allan was involved with Environmental Issues from its start and much credit for its success must go to him . |
| 9 | The Elton Committee suggested that there was some doubt about the application of the in loco parentis principle to the disciplining of pupils — for its application would mean that a parent 's request to a school for a particular form of punishment not to be administered to his/her child would have to be granted . |
| 10 | Until this happened , Anselm could not receive his pallium , and the legal limit for its reception would expire in December 1094 . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Deviations from sections II , VIII , VIIIa , IX , X and XI are permissible for a period not extending beyond Dec. 31 , 1995. ( 3 ) Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 and 2 above , Article 41 of the Unification Treaty and the rules for its implementation shall remain valid in so far as they provide for the irreversibility of interferences with property in the territory specified in Article 3 of the said treaty " . |
| 12 | Since the de Mazia Trust remains the most forceful opponent of the current Barnes leadership ( and a major source of operating funds for the Barnes Foundation ) , serious doubts about its legitimacy would lift a major obstacle from the Barnes board 's freedom of movement . |
| 13 | This seems acceptable but doubts about its legitimacy can arise when , for example , the issue seems less a legal one than a political one , as it was during the Spycatcher affair . |
| 14 | As it is moved away from the centre of energy towards the edge of the rectangle , the drawing will appear smaller and heavier while the significance of its content will become subordinate to its overall shape . |
| 15 | Her beauty had been something which had filled even herself with wonder ; sometimes in the privacy of her own room she would gaze at some part of herself , at a hand , say , or a breast , and the perfection of its shape would fill her with joy , as if it were not a part of herself but some natural object of beauty . |
| 16 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |
| 17 | Samuelson ( 1965 ) has argued that , as the delivery date of a futures contract approaches , the volatility of its price will increase , that is , volatility is a negative function of the time to deliver ( or maturity ) . |
| 18 | Most interesting , perhaps , is the extent to which attention to its organization of time around interruption and the consequent segmentation of its narrative might place televised fictional genres or subgenres in a fairly continuous line of popular novelistic forms for which the feature film represents a break rather than an exemplary object . |
| 19 | Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity , and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside . |
| 20 | Following what Gilkes admits has been a very poor year in the VME marketplace , that part of its enterprise will contribute a declining proportion of the company 's revenue as sales of the Sparcbook rise . |
| 21 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 22 | What follows is an examination of structure and of how an awareness by the teacher of its significance can help him find the game in the drama . |
| 23 | Acoustically , the Takamine has a fairly flat response , with no boomy bass or tinny treble tendencies at all , though the evenness of its tone may have been achieved at the expense of some character . |
| 24 | The party with education at the top of its agenda will have to be more on its toes than that . |
| 25 | Held , granting the petition , that where the hearing of an action was divided into two parts and there was an appeal to the Court of Appeal of New Zealand after the determination on the first part , justice required that an appeal therefrom to the Privy Council should lie if such an appeal would have lain had all the issues been determined prior to the appeal to the Court of Appeal ; that , accordingly , the judgment of the Court of Appeal deciding the compromise and cancellation issues in the respondents ' favour and dismissing the petitioner 's action was a final judgment for the purposes of rule 2 ( a ) of the New Zealand ( Appeals to the Privy Council ) Order 1910 entitling the petitioner to appeal as of right to the Privy Council ; and that , therefore , the Court of Appeal had erred in refusing to grant the petitioner leave to appeal and the Board in the exercise of its discretion would grant the petitioner special leave to appeal ( post , pp. 6G , 8B , D , F ) . |
| 26 | But the Red Cross says every misuse of its symbol could put its workers in danger . |
| 27 | Whatever we do with a horse from the beginning of its life will influence the creation of habits or forms of behaviour which it may well keep for the rest of its life . |
| 28 | If you slow its metabolism by restricted diet , it will mature more slowly and live longer than normal : the clock of its life will slow down . |
| 29 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 30 | Informix Software Inc intends to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Eastern Europe during the next few months , but 80% of its business will remain with value-added resellers and distributors . |