Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ways such as these , late Roman bishops worked slowly , by piecemeal additions and elaborations of regularly recurrent observances , to define a new sacred time in which the Christian life was to be wholly caught up , until the sacred time of the old pagan past was slowly forgotten , or emptied of its charge of religiosity . |
| 2 | It collects its food on a curtain of baleen or whalebone in its mouth and after a single meal may well have transferred to its stomach no less than 2 tons of tiny shrimps , each no more than 3 inches long . |
| 3 | To act on or defy a socially established rule has effects on all who benefit or suffer by its observance . |
| 4 | Regardless of the worthiness of any concept the actual product will stand or fall by its quality and here InteSoft leaves something to be desired . |
| 5 | Several farms were burned or devastated in its path , with some consequent deaths . |
| 6 | Second , there will be a border area where the two interpretations merge , in the sense that certain particular values for adjective and noun meanings , when joined in an attributive combination , will under either interpretation always correspond to identical external situations ; hence even highly sophisticated investigators might be hard put to it to tell whether a given adjective is simply applicable to X or has as its value having the property of being-related-to-X . |
| 7 | The general structure of this unitary grant system was well designed to achieve these purposes , but the detailed arrangements incorporated a number of elements which either detracted somewhat from the equity of the system or added to its complexity . |
| 8 | Great literature is only partly the reflection of a particular year or generation : it is also a timeless thing , which can never become old-fashioned or out of date , or depend for its importance upon historical considerations . |
| 9 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , Japanese companies seem as willing to sell technology , or collaborate on its development , as any other firms , when doing so offers them some advantage . |
| 11 | A horse 's intense desire for company , too , may be protective , or related to its breeding strategy . |
| 12 | Most important , since form was now largely suggested rather than clearly defined , and since a strong linear quality was retained in the finished painting , it became much easier to combine the various views of an object or to synthesize in its depiction a greater amount of information . |
| 13 | She had the sort of belly that has produced perhaps three or four children and never managed to forget its importance or let go of its previous function or recover from its distension . |
| 14 | Universal and human consciousness are one and the same in nature , the only difference being that individual consciousness is experienced as limited or restricted in its operation within its physical vehicle . |
| 15 | Agricultural production is either severely restricted or restricted in its range by soil , relief , aspect and climate , either singly or in combination . |
| 16 | No working indigenous community linked with the wild landscape or the people who walked , warred or survived in its past . |
| 17 | The contours of a site are obviously important and may add or detract from its development potential . |
| 18 | In the event of any error or other deficiency therein being notified to it , or coming to its notice , it will use all reasonable endeavours to supply the appropriate corrections within a reasonable time |
| 19 | The Centre was composed of 26 individuals , and was to report to the HCS president and to " initiate actions when contraventions of human rights are noticed or brought to its attention " . |
| 20 | it creates extra communication problems , since top management is more remote from the work done at the bottom end of the organisation , and information tends to get distorted or blocked on its way up or down through the organisation hierarchy ; |
| 21 | If a planning authority grants permission for a particular construction or use in its area it is almost certain that some local inhabitants will be prejudiced in the quiet enjoyment of their properties . |
| 22 | The managing director of a big British agency , when he heard his colleagues saying that an agency stands or falls by its creative department used to reply , " No — it stands or falls by its progress control department . " |
| 23 | This makes it easy to use each crayon as a fine , crisp ‘ tool ’ as well as a blunter one or rubbed on its side . |
| 24 | Everyone must admire it as a supreme example of the unremitting development of one basic situation , Iago 's destruction of Othello , with a claustrophilic refusal to digress or vary from its path , yet no one is known to have enjoyed it . |
| 25 | The site has been shown to have regularly put at risk the health , and often the lives , of those who work or live in its shadow . |
| 26 | Now there are rumours circulating that the NEA will be abolished , or combined with its sister agency , the National Endowment for the Humanities . |
| 27 | A building adapted or retained in its totality can have many lives ; keeping just the facade might prolong its life by no more than twenty years . |
| 28 | Since many of the acts penalised are likely to amount to offensive conduct within the terms of section 5 , it is to be regretted that the opportunity was not taken to examine this jurisprudential anachronism which , although it no longer carries a power of arrest , should perhaps be either modernised or repealed in its entirety . |
| 29 | He was only sensation now , and she its supplier , his body enslaved by bliss , unable to remember its making or conceive of its undoing . |
| 30 | Similarly , even in that most abstract of arts , music , the playing of a musical instrument can inscribe the peculiar energy of the act of plucking , blowing or striking into its sound such that it is rendered unique or concrete . |