Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits that actually count are the benefits to those genes that give the shell its protective properties . |
| 2 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 3 | It contains pigments which give the hair its individual colour . |
| 4 | Economics has been roundly dismissed as a miserable science , and to the layman its contradictory conclusions and evident practical inabilities are more likely to provoke scorn than respect . |
| 5 | As they move upwards they lose their nuclei and synthesize the special proteins like keratin that give the skin its protective toughness . |
| 6 | A more obvious underlying meaning , pointed out by the programme notes , is to see the ‘ round-dance ’ as a metaphor for the transmission of VD or , more topically , AIDS ; but this seems to me less interesting than the social satire whose delicate emotional nuances ( preserved in co-director Ceri Sherlock 's modernised adaptation ) give the play its wider significance and melancholy humour . |
| 7 | Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her . |
| 8 | This is why we do not want to abandon the term inner city , either analytically or politically , only to ground it in the academic debates which have reproduced it conceptually , the political debates that have refashioned it discursively and , most significantly , the social injustices and inequalities that lend the term its emotive power and mobilising force . |
| 9 | In electro magnetism , the repulsion between two electrons can be pictured as the exchange of a photon — a particle that has to be massless to give the force its infinite range , its inverse square law . |
| 10 | The lobbying from the dyestuffs interest gave the programme its empirical direction . |
| 11 | Penury , moral as well as physical , is signified in the Barton household when money is wanting to purchase the soap and brushes , black-lead and pipe-clay which had given the houseplace its cheerful look in more prosperous days . |
| 12 | The plaintiffs made an application for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendant from disclosing to the regulatory body or to the revenue its confidential information or documents . |
| 13 | We might well be inclined to call this intentional object the context of the emotional arousal for it is the cognitive relationship with a particular context that gives the emotion its particular characteristics . |
| 14 | Situated close to the harbour its nautical connections ( it was once owned by a local shipowner ) are very evident — all the bedrooms are named after local sailing ships . |
| 15 | As with all his work , it is a synthesis of two elements , two traditions , that give the work its emotional force . |
| 16 | It is a synthesis of two elements , two traditions , that give the work its emotional force . |
| 17 | The two whole-tone groups are used as pivots between such tonal zones throughout the composition , and give the work its precise character . |
| 18 | And the issue has brought the council its biggest postbag , with more than 2,000 letters or forms 920 against development , 1,333 in support . |
| 19 | All madeiras are blended and the blender is an artist , giving the blend its distinctive characteristics . |
| 20 | Not all the results were of the same high quality ; nevertheless the music they arranged reinforced the choreographer 's design by giving the plot atmosphere , local colour , continuity and flow as well as giving the dancing its rhythmic vitality , emotion and mood . |
| 21 | Technically , the cetacean side of things is n't at all well handled : the beast is evidently as much of a pawn as Jonah ; its providential appearance just as the sailors are tossing Jonah overboard smacks far too heavily of a deus ex machina ; and the great fish is casually dismissed from the story the moment its narrative function has been fulfilled . |
| 22 | Sacks of pot-pourri and other scented products give the room its special aroma . |
| 23 | Eliot 's Waste Land that ‘ in England it was treated chiefly with indignation or contempt ’ , whereas in America The Dial had awarded the author its annual prize of $2,000 . |
| 24 | Coun. John Williams , leader of Darlington borough council , said their £10.324m. standard spending assessment the amount the Government says they need to provide services was not enough to give the town its planned facelift . |
| 25 | Since then two related developments have given the group its unusual character . |
| 26 | Although it is the hereditary peers who give the House of Lords its raison d'être , it is the life peers who give the place its intellectual distinction and who produce the most impressive arguments in examining the details of legislation . |
| 27 | And the Harrier was proudr top give the station its final bow . |
| 28 | During the decade its combined imports and exports have totally five million tonnes , involving the loading and discharging of some 2,000 ships from the Cliff Quay site at Ipswich . |
| 29 | This chameleon-like character of the inner city lends the concept its remarkable potency . |
| 30 | These are , after all , what gives the water its characteristic taste . |