Example sentences of "[vb -s] its [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process of gestation has its parallel on the psychological level . |
| 2 | In order to deal with the problem of means , the government says , we provide housing benefits and the subsidy , this is the government speaking , the subsidy goes into the demand , it goes into benefit there 'll be no subsidy left if the government has its way on the supply side . |
| 3 | Her thesis has its gaze on the exact detail of the exchange of cattle , goats , blankets , gourds and snuff , and it tries to establish by the comparative method that these customs are part of universal human practice . |
| 4 | The tightness and speed of the narrative , too , has its effect on the direct , concrete prose style which , too often in the earlier books , had become prosy and had lost shape in informative interpolations . |
| 5 | Each of these has its effect on the difficulty of reading and interpreting the data , but not always in a highly predictable way . |
| 6 | However , the company has its eye on the estimated 200 000 American children with ‘ normal variant short stature ’ , who produce growth hormone but apparently lack sufficient receptors to put it to work . |
| 7 | IXI has its eye on the very same area , but is still working on the details . |
| 8 | 5 Now think about what actually happens as your group starts its life on the island sometimes things go well ; sometimes not so well . |
| 9 | The subroutine call instruction places its address on the SJNS ( pushing down all earlier entries ) and jumps to the specified store address . |
| 10 | Representing a reaction against the wish-dreams of the initial stage , realism is liable to assume a critical and somewhat cynical aspect … it places its emphasis on the acceptance of facts and on the analysis of their causes and consequences . |
| 11 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , the breeze that ignores all the other trees , but plays its tune on the aspen , rustling its leaves , only on the aspen ! ’ |
| 13 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 14 | Mr Zacharopoulos , Documenta IX turns its back on the 1980s . |
| 15 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 16 | Skylarks : The skylark builds its nest on the ground in fields and on moors , marshes and downs . |
| 17 | Britain 's Department of the Environment claims that the risk to humans is far smaller , ‘ human beings are much less sensitive to dioxins than many other species , ’ says its report on the subject . |
| 18 | Halfway through , the film loses its grip on the day-to-day reality in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | It often loses its grip on the ball of bedding along the way and has to regather the bundle . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the behaviour of the political parties is itself endogenous and we have to explain the way in which each chooses its position on the political spectrum . |
| 21 | In job creation terms its return on the £170 million so far invested has been small . |
| 22 | This approach concentrates its attention on the behaviour of bureaucrats as maximizers of budgets or staff and seeks to identify ways in which that behaviour can be modified by changing the context of their decision-making . |
| 23 | Rugby hangs its hat on the international game but that 's also where the funds come from for the grass-roots development . |
| 24 | ( When I speak of the value of the whole , I mean what Moore calls its value on the whole , that is the values of its parts plus its value as a whole . ) |
| 25 | ‘ I know a life like that makes a good story but it takes its toll on the person . |
| 26 | William Golding 's second novel , The Inheritors ( 1955 ) , and his favourite , is about the historically remote world of Neanderthal man , conversing in cries and grunts and on the point of being supplanted by smooth and hairless superior beings ; his third , Pincher Martin ( 1956 ) drowns its hero on the second page and recounts his thoughts in the rest . |
| 27 | The sun illuminating the canopy of heaven , reflects its lustre on the earth below , and gives a delicate distinction to every distance on the picture , and to every object its due place , in all the regular gradation of aerial perspective . ’ |
| 28 | Egypt and Syria attack Israeli positions but Israel 's victory strengthens its hold on the Sinai and the Golan Heights . |
| 29 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend give us any estimate of the time that will elapse before the European Court gives its judgment on the matter ? |
| 30 | In the discussion document , the committee gives its opinion on the extent to which the provision of these reassurances is the responsibility of boards of directors , the extent to which it is the responsibility of external auditors and the extent to which these reassurances can not be provided by either boards of directors or external auditors . |