Example sentences of "[adv] and its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chicken 's skin was crisped nicely and its yellow flesh was succulent . |
| 2 | Erm the land is a disused airfield required very cheaply so there was no great exposure in getting that site away and its first occupiers were the company that had bought it and Asda did their own buildings to begin with for their own use . |
| 3 | On hitting the stop , the wire trip is forced back in relation to the tube and , at the other end of a dowel pushrod , the release pin allows the parabear to fall away and its static line is pulled from the parachute pack . |
| 4 | The siren , a metre-long amphibian from the southern United States , has lost its back legs altogether and its front legs are not only greatly reduced in size but have no bones within them , merely cartilage , so that they are of no practical use in locomotion . |
| 5 | Therefore , though the high density of Mercury suggested it might well have an iron core , Mercury was known to spin slowly and its large surface area to mass ratio indicated that its interior was cool enough for most or all of any core to be solid , and thus no detectable dipole field was expected . |
| 6 | Satisfied , she slipped on her jacket and picked up her handbag , pausing to look at the diary once more and its mysterious entry : |
| 7 | Marion loved her home and its cosy atmosphere gave the shy girl great assurance . |
| 8 | I have been quietly considering if we too should not break with philology as practised till now and its educational perspective . |
| 9 | With a pleasant sense of maintaining the rhythm of the night before and its various successes and achievements , I went down to Mercutio 's and bought four suits , eight shirts , six ties and a stylish lightweight mackintosh . |
| 10 | The abbey lies in ruins today and its celebrated relic has disappeared without trace . |
| 11 | The early Christian influence came from England from the tenth century onwards and its principal centre was at Uppsala . |
| 12 | The devaluation of sterling from September onwards and its significant effect on raw material costs put pressure on margins which has continued into the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 13 | Where the works of antiquity had once been treated as timeless products of a homogeneous whole , ancient civilization was now conceived historically and its divers elements related to their precise period . |
| 14 | Its blue eyes swivel sadly and its red gills flap in terminal gasps . |
| 15 | He cut it up lengthways and its tangy smell flooded out . |
| 16 | The British public had not so far been inclined to take the latest invasion threat very seriously and its chief effect had been to encourage feminism . |
| 17 | Through her travels and writings ( which included a novel , Maid of Sark , in 1939 and an autobiography , Dame of Sark , 1961 ) and television , radio , and press interviews , her island became known worldwide and its subsequent prosperity owed much to her determination to retain its unique laws and peaceful atmosphere , unpolluted by cars or aeroplanes . |