Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] its [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australia can not claim that it is unaware of the uncertainty about the legal status of Indonesia 's assertion of jurisdictional authority in East Timor and the off-shore waters , and has relied upon its own determination of legality . |
| 2 | The door of the grocer 's shop was flung open with a ‘ crash ’ and a small rotund figure , angry as a bee that has sat on its own sting , buzzed past the rubber merchant and accosted the sedan-chair operator . |
| 3 | This doubt is far from new , but today 's intellectual climate provides an ideal breeding-ground and it has come into its own again . |
| 4 | AFTER A FEW HOT SUMMERS , LIGHTWEIGHT , POLYCOTTON CLOTHING HAS COME INTO ITS OWN . |
| 5 | Moreover , on the academic front , the detailed empirical study of electoral behaviour through sample surveys has come into its own so that we now have a great deal more information on which to explore the hopes and fears of those who took sides on the issue of democracy at the same time as we are provided with information to check out the reality of key elements of the responsible party model in Britain . |
| 6 | Against that , though , there is a ‘ vast contemporary repertoire — the guitar has come into its own in popularity in this period , and people are now writing for it with a vengeance . |
| 7 | You ca n't use extra national insurance contributions in one year to make up a shortfall in another ; each year has to stand on its own . |
| 8 | For example , written language typically has to express things more explicitly , because it has to stand on its own . |
| 9 | The result is that Dublin has to stand on its own constant , as well as temporary , merits . |
| 10 | Yep , stranded in the ITV franchise desert ( '93 , here we come ! ) , it comes as no surprise that recession-hit telly has turned to its own back catalogue for a morale boost . |
| 11 | They buy from it and the design group has to look after its own destiny and its own profitability . |
| 12 | ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’ |
| 13 | The city has flowered upon its own offal . |
| 14 | Each science has to do with its own genus , or ‘ kind ’ , which is divided by ‘ differentia ’ into various species . |
| 15 | Exactly 40 years separate the shots , which show just how much Puerto Rico has benefited from its own ‘ industrial revolution ’ . |
| 16 | But , as I told the House on 20 November , if Britain needs to act on its own , it must be free to do so . |
| 17 | However , sometimes the knowledge that a horse has acquired from its own species brings an unexpected result for the horse when used in relation to us . |
| 18 | Scruton seeks to build an explicitly conservative sexual ethic on the Hegelian proposition that ‘ the final end of every rational being is the building of the self — of a recognisable personal entity , which flourishes according to its own autonomous nature ’ ( p. 299 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure , sir , but to speak frankly , the Grand Army prefers to rely upon its own enquiries into such matters . |
| 20 | To start with , none of the themes seem to link in with a previous theme or rheme ; each sentence seems to stand on its own in a sort of vacuum . |
| 21 | Now the door seems to move of its own accord . |
| 22 | But , equally significantly , surface appearance draws meaning from its own context . |
| 23 | What Butler says of this account — namely that it ‘ tells us more about the fantasies that a fearful heterosexual culture produces to defend against its own homosexual possibilities , than about lesbian experience itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 86 — 7 ) — might also be said more generally of the way homosexuality is conceptualized in sexual difference theory . |
| 24 | This , they argued , was the antithesis of their definition of development , the process whereby a community learns to stand on its own feet . |
| 25 | Solar heating does come into its own for the fairly specialised use of heating water for swimming pools and can make a contribution to heating the domestic hot water . |
| 26 | This publication manages to pack into its few pages masses of useful information for those with allergies who have to pick their way through foods the rest of us take for granted . |