Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of its members undergo a change of attitude as the team goes about its ordinary work . |
| 2 | MI6 is still controlled by the Foreign Office but the Foreign Secretary neither admits to this publicly nor asks any questions about how MI6 goes about its daily business . |
| 3 | One company that puts all its business out to tender is Ranks Hovis McDougall , which spends around £18 million per year on electricity supplies for its 60-plus production sites in the UK . |
| 4 | A new law setting out tough penalties for car theft goes through its final stages today.It was put through by Oxford West MP John Patten , Minister of State at the Home Office . |
| 5 | First , it contributes through its very vagueness a richness of interpretation that would not have been achieved otherwise . |
| 6 | Although its meat is delicious , there is no special demand for it , and the same goes for its hard-wearing wool . |
| 7 | Thanet wing , however , has as its primary purpose to keep its inmates from physical harm ; the good work that is undoubtedly done there with individuals is almost a bonus . |
| 8 | The second phase , a three year Community Education Project , is similarly funded and has as its prime aims : |
| 9 | The socialisation of the nation has as its natural corollary the nationalisation of socialism … . |
| 10 | It would actually be competing for development that Selby wants for its own population . |
| 11 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 12 | A critical attitude needs for its raw material , as it were , theories or beliefs which are held more or less dogmatically . |
| 13 | A society in which children are freed from abuse and are respected as human beings , a society which values and cares for its older citizens . |
| 14 | Certainly , those who aim to buy when prices are low and sell when they are high can find plenty of Peps where the unit or share price now stands below its former peak . |
| 15 | As we mention in the section on Concentration , a good time-table of study can take the place of motivation until such motivation develops of its own accord . |
| 16 | The Cardinal 's statement continued : ‘ The question of the ordination of women affects the understanding each Church has of its own identity and of its sacraments and worship . |
| 17 | By tomorrow night ( Friday ) it will be too far south to be easily seen from Britain , as it heads towards its closest point to the Sun on Saturday week . |
| 18 | Interest lies with its small brother , Strokkur . |
| 19 | Port Isaac nestles above its small harbour . |
| 20 | With a further increase in temperature the rod straightens under its own weight and eventually regains its rubber-like elasticity at slightly higher temperatures . |
| 21 | The poll tax ( a.k.a. the community charge ) has been discredited by almost all politicians , even Darlington 's Conservative MP Michael Fallon , but for administrative and bureaucratic reasons it lumbers into its third year this April . |
| 22 | SUN JUGGLES WITH ITS EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY |
| 23 | The real power of most artillery lies in its long reach . |
| 24 | The failing of the more usual critique lies in its insufficient attention to empirical practice . |
| 25 | The value of the USRC lies in its long-term contribution to Conservative policy and in its re-creation of the tradition of Conservative reform that perished with Randolph Churchill . |
| 26 | But we are studying substantive interpretations of legal practice , not semantic theories , and our present interest in conventionalism lies in its negative claim that convention exhausts the intrinsic normative power of past decisions . |
| 27 | The first method — each bell unique but each ringing everywhere — means that the ‘ message ’ of the bell lies in its specific sound ; in the second , the message lies not in the bell , but in the way it is wired up . |
| 28 | The importance of the building for the history of sculpture lies in its superb frieze , or rather friezes , since the four sides have different subjects and show two distinct styles . |
| 29 | Looking back a quarter of a century to that statement , perhaps the most obvious awkwardness today lies in its easy assumption that there was , in the 1960s , a common culture to be transmitted . |
| 30 | The importance , and the charm , of Messager 's work lies in its mannered eclecticism , its precise and worldly transpositions of old stories to a contemporary milieu . |