Example sentences of "[vb pp] in its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They must be free to drive their companies forward , but exercise that freedom within a framework of effective accountability , ’ the Committee stressed in its final report . |
| 2 | Since it gives only a single output there will be no distinction between the zero in its output due to an edge being properly located in its receptive field and a zero due to the absence of an edge altogether . |
| 3 | The focus of this research has reflected growing awareness that preoccupation with a handful of leading figures may create a distorted picture ; that Chernyshevsky , Plekhanov and Lenin may not be typical in terms of social background , personality or motivation ; that both their own ideological development and that of the rank and file must be more firmly located in its social context ; that the schemes and blueprints drawn up by leaders — and the criticisms hurled by their rivals — may be a poor guide to how the revolutionary parties actually functioned . |
| 4 | Of course — if you will forgive me for saying so — it is a bit stilted in its present form . |
| 5 | Whilst the government claimed in its first consultation paper on the National Curriculum that it wished to ensure a broad and balanced curriculum for ‘ all pupils ’ , pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities were not specifically mentioned ( DES 1987 ) . |
| 6 | Sicily is still trapped in its own past . |
| 7 | However , even with this unpromising start , more could possibly have been achieved with a leadership less trapped in its own class origins . |
| 8 | The Law Commission had strongly recommended in its 1976 Report on Conspiracy and Criminal Law Reform that cinema films should be brought within the scope of the Obscene Publications Act , since Parliament 's supposition that ‘ such exhibitions … are most unlikely … to be prosecuted ’ had already proved unfounded . |
| 9 | Colour had crept unsteadily on to It 's pages , and the paper reported in its second birthday issue that ‘ hopes of a permanent 24-page It have had to be tempered with reality otherwise we would find ourselves expanding into debt . ’ |
| 10 | As Brewer has put it : The scheme , disreputable and corrupt as it was , succeeded in its chief aim of changing the structure of the national debt . |
| 11 | In early November , the Provisional Consultative Assembly was installed in its new surroundings in the Luxembourg Palace . |
| 12 | It is turned over and mixed in its dry state until a uniform greyish colour . |
| 13 | Next weekend in Budapest , Attalli will tell the EBRD 's 45 members how this ambititious enterprise has fared in its first year of business . |
| 14 | Then there will remain the architectural corner shop , busy and respected in its own community , doing house extensions , small commercial developments and a wide range of local jobs . |
| 15 | This proved impossible : the fist was too tightly clenched in its terminal seizure . |
| 16 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 17 | Austerity measures contained in its economic recovery programme and introduced in December 1989 were based on strict financial discipline , convertibility of the dinar , free formation of prices and interest rates and a wage freeze from January to June 1990 . |
| 18 | But despite the halt in production , the US will retain the largest worldwide stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium and enriched uranium , contained in its existing weapons . |
| 19 | These will include : Does the scheme comply with the policies contained in its local plan ? |
| 20 | However , critics note that China does not obey human-rights guarantees contained in its own constitution . |
| 21 | It toppled sideways and struck the floor , still frozen in its final pose . |
| 22 | DeVore smiled , thinking of her — at that very moment — on the jet to America , and of her left index finger , frozen in its medical case , heading out for Mars . |
| 23 | Thus , as far as the scientific community is concerned , the alternative movement is kept frozen in its subordinate position . |
| 24 | In 1859 , the number of winners ' medals had become too great to be attached to the silver arrow and the trophy was re-modelled in its present form , in which the original arrow is supported by a silver bow and crossed bolts , all standing on an ebony and silver plinth . |
| 25 | Carol Forfar , head of the Women 's Unit , said : ‘ Cervical cancer can be cured if it is caught in its early stages . |
| 26 | Detachment , self-consciousness must be flooded out by the stream of consciousness — music caught in its own flux , a white water of dream language ( REM , Muses ) . |
| 27 | It has also been depicted in its formative period of development as the site of bitter industrial strife . |
| 28 | The twelve disciples were the core of the new people of God which had originally been organised in its twelve tribes . |
| 29 | The poem , addressed in its final form to Charles Lamb , followed his friends in imagination as they walked first ‘ along the hill-top edge ’ , then descended to the waterfall in the ‘ roaring dell ’ at Holford , and climbed at last high into the Quantocks , from where they looked out upon ‘ the many-steepled tract magnificent ’ of the coastal plain . |
| 30 | A " medium-term adjustment programme 1991-93 " was presented in its final form at the end of February 1991 . |