Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pembrokeshire heads my list of favourite UK walking areas . |
| 2 | Sri Lankan newspaper stands its ground on human rights |
| 3 | It is a spiritual community which owes its unity to common beliefs and a common attitude to life , far more than to any uniformity of physical type . |
| 4 | The Great Barrier Reef , which hugs the north-east shore of Australia for 2000 kilometres , owes its existence to millions of tiny animals called coral polyps . |
| 5 | Frelimo in Mozambique is one example of a movement which owes its success to cold war tensions . |
| 6 | Cawsand owes its survival to one wide-awake villager . |
| 7 | In fact almost every large Greek bronze we have owes its survival to some accident which sequestered it in antiquity : a shipwreck , a fall of rock . |
| 8 | However much the relative values of particular substances vary from one culture to another , each one owes its status to physical attributes . |
| 9 | Mercedes-Benz , Siemens and Bayer do not owe their success to the Bundesbank : the Bundesbank owes its strength to German industrial progress . |
| 10 | The Faculty of Divinity has its home in New College on the Mound , close to Edinburgh 's majestic Castle and overlooking its New Town . |
| 11 | Looking at the environment , as market demands become more sophisticated so there is a need for operator flexibility in production system outputs , which has its counterpart in greater variety of work within the production system ( Lupton and Tanner , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | The jewel in the Cobra 's head has its counterpart in Australian Aboriginal folklore in the form of the quartz crystal which enshrines the colours and essence of the rainbow , and the Rainbow Serpent of Australian mythology is closely related to the Indian Spectacled Cobra in terms of its role as both a fertility symbol and a symbol of higher consciousness . |
| 13 | Nearly every chamber has its reservoir of running water at the door ; on every side are gardens , delightful alleys , shady retreats , streams , fountains and grottoes . |
| 14 | While Tyneside has its share of industrial dereliction , in Newcastle it was able to boast of a vibrant city and the region 's key cultural and educational institutions . |
| 15 | Exercise is , in fact , well provided for , with an indoor swimming pool , a gymnasium , a sports area for football ( with teams from outside the prison involved in both football and weightlifting ) , and like most long-term prisons , Maidstone has its share of those who keep fanatically fit . |
| 16 | Like all teams Oxford has its share of overseas imports … is British ice hockey catching up with the North Americans ? |
| 17 | I guess the good news has its drawback for some men . |
| 18 | The individual pattern or blueprint for form and growth has its origin at this source , and via universal Manas or Mind , is radiated by the universal field when the frequency pattern of an embryo or seed at the physical level attracts that sympathetic vibration , and when the conditions for its manifestations are conducive ; in terms of physics , when a state of coherence exists . |
| 19 | Although this herb has its origin in Southern Europe and western Asia , its common name is said to derive either from the Anglo-Saxon dylle or the old Norse dilla which meant to soothe or lull , in reference to its use in calming infants who had hiccups — in fact Culpeper said " it stayeth the hiccough . " |
| 20 | The problem has its origin in earliest childhood . |
| 21 | The connection between ancient houses and mysteries of a shameful kind has its origin in Gothic romance . |
| 22 | But there is another way in which the Anthropic Principle , or more strictly a Biothropic Principle , could be indisputably self-evident , if it means that animal and biological life on just one planet has its genesis in cosmic forces . |
| 23 | A media melting-pot , his every utterance , nuance and action has its genesis in some — usually Seventies-era — movie , TV show , commercial or record . |
| 24 | The rivalry promoted between large companies has its reflection in fierce competition between small suppliers for orders from parent companies . |
| 25 | It 's quite a common event in , and it can be two types , it can be either fixed or flexible , if it 's fixed it means the foot is in a position that you ca n't move out of if it 's flexible it means that the baby has its foot like that but you can actually rotate it |
| 26 | This recognition of the " blurred roles " of teachers and librarians , and of the importance of providing opportunities for those who wish to gain an understanding of and professional accreditation in both professions , has long been the case at school level in the USA , where school librarians are generally required to have a proportion of undergraduate and graduate credits in both disciplines ( the regulations vary from state to state ) , and the education system has long been flexible enough to meet the need without the provision of special courses ( though this has its disadvantage in that some students may therefore miss the opportunity to make direct cross-disciplinary comparisons under academic supervision ) . |
| 27 | That metronidazole has its effect at this late stage of NSAID enteropathy is further supported by the findings that small intestinal permeability is not significantly affected by the treatment . |
| 28 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
| 29 | Whether or not the cells that enter the feather germs make pigment is controlled by the feather germs , each of which has its set of positional values — each feather has its own address . |
| 30 | Either way , said Colin , the areas that LASMO has its eye on all have the potential to bring further success and prosperity to the company . |