Example sentences of "[to-vb] in its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 2 | Europe remains the big hole to plug in its international strategy . |
| 3 | Coming between the poetic neo-romanticism of the war years and the potentially overwhelming influence of American abstraction , theirs was a quiet but genuinely felt and observed art which shows its strength by continuing to flourish in its unsensational way . |
| 4 | The relationship in both cases with the opposing image is both subtle and sensitive , but surely each image should be equally able to stand in its own space , on its own merit . |
| 5 | There was a perfect grace which architects had been working towards through the seventeenth century and which seemed to peak in its purest form at about this time , not without a little Royal influence from Holland ! |
| 6 | We 've chosen Boppard as the base for our Rhine Fly-Drive holidays because it 's not only a great place to visit in its own right , but because its central location makes it an ideal spot from which to explore the mighty Rhine . |
| 7 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 8 | The impression just described can be related moreover to the before/after idea which to has been seen to express in its other uses . |
| 9 | According to a front-page story in InfoWorld , Novell Inc has hired Ablondi & Foster , a law firm specialising in antitrust law , to round up expert witnesses against Microsoft for the FTC to use in its potential case . |
| 10 | The Third Department recommended in an official memorandum of 1861 that the government strive " to retain in its own hands the standard of the progressive movement which it itself has started " . |
| 11 | By making language do other than what it is designed to do in its original context , parodic manipulation undermines its illocutionary force rather than its explicit semantic content . |
| 12 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 13 | There can be no doubt , since the decision of this House in Stoke-on-Trent City Council v. B. & Q. ( Retail ) Ltd. [ 1984 ] A.C. 754 , that a local authority has power , in appropriate circumstances , to proceed in its own name by way of injunction to restrain infringements of section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 . |
| 14 | Switching on the torch he swung round in time to see in its thin beam a blast of hot , dust-laden smoke belch past the opening of the short passageway and spill in towards him . |
| 15 | This refers to the ability of the organization to continue in its present form or in its planned form . |
| 16 | I can see no basis in principle for holding that a municipal corporation , empowered by statute to sue in its corporate name , can not maintain an action for libel . |
| 17 | It is clear that political commitment is no more sufficient for the development of good pedagogy than is the ability to speak a particular language and to share in its associated culture . |
| 18 | Financing Transport Infrastructure : This working party has now met several times and has established the key issues it wishes to address in its final report . |
| 19 | So it 's not so much a device to study in its own right , it 's a teaching aid in other words , a classroom aid . |
| 20 | He decided not to wipe his face , which had started to run in its usual sleepy-fruit way , because to do so might have destroyed the impression . |
| 21 | During this time it travels only five times its own length , and the widely spaced propellers allow it to turn in its own length at low speed . |
| 22 | I loathe the metal crate in which ‘ Guernica ’ travelled along ‘ the most controversial kilometre in the history of contemporary art ’ , to settle in its new mansion , where it will serve as a pernicious example to future generations . |
| 23 | A chaffinch that is isolated from birth will only sing a very crude chaffinch song when it comes to sing in its first year ( Figure 3.10b — compare the normal chaffinch song in Figure 3.10a ) . |
| 24 | Writing in the same magazine , the Federation 's chairman Brian Prendergast asks whether the organisation should continue to exist in its present form with provincial councils reporting to a central council responsible for formulating the sport 's policies throughout Ireland . |
| 25 | Thus human beings , animals , plants , and all other genuine units in the world , on whatever scale , struggle each to exist in its own way , this , on the one side , being a matter of a certain physical individual having an inbuilt tendency to operate , so far as is possible , to preserve itself , in its distinctive form , and on the other hand , of the corresponding mind having an inbuilt tendency to preserve its particular form of experience . |
| 26 | For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other . |
| 27 | The dynamic driving-force of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ allowed , in fact , no stabilization or ‘ normalization ’ , but rather conditioned circumstances in which the traditional ‘ ruling class ’ became ever more subsumed in and dependent upon the ‘ behemoth ’ of the Nazi State which it was no longer able to control in its mad rush to destruction . |
| 28 | The real value of the method is seen to lie in its motivating effect more than in the changes in production methods . |
| 29 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 30 | This time the losers , including the cities of New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Houston , and the US Conference of Mayors , have taken the bureau to court to try to make it agree to change its initial 1990 findings and to add in its estimated under-count . |