Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] [prep] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The contours of a site are obviously important and may add or detract from its development potential . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact the classic novelists were well aware of the dangerous power of their art , and took various measures to prevent or warn against its abuse . |
| 5 | He argued that as old institutions failed to meet new expectations , so legitimacy in government would falter and trust in its equity and effectiveness would decline . |
| 6 | GDA was heavily involved in Hoover 's announcement during the year to retain and re-invest in its Cambuslang operation . |
| 7 | Archimedes became ‘ that divine man ’ and Galileo saw in Euclid the wonder of geometry , especially in the work on ratios , which Galileo was to expand and use to its limit later . |
| 8 | Tens of thousands of outsiders come to this city to learn and work at its University . |
| 9 | It dies when it runs out of water to breathe and pump round its body . |
| 10 | THE Home Secretary has told colleagues that he expects a fresh Commons debate on the death penalty before the next election and that he would speak and vote for its restoration as a deterrent for some murders . |
| 11 | Japan had allowed the United States largely to provide and pay for its defence . |
| 12 | There were bags of boiled sweets , several blocks of chocolate , some assorted bags of toffees , some cartons of flavoured milk , and a block of ice-cream that was starting to melt and ooze through its wrapper . |
| 13 | The stove gives out a good heat , the mantelpiece and the fire bricks become warm and perhaps this has caused the photograph of Arthur Balfour to wilt and slip in its frame . |