Example sentences of "[adv prt] in its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill still bogged down in its 13th day in committee , the back-bench loyalists vented their anger on the Tory rebels . |
| 2 | Iraq 's nuclear plans seemed to go into abeyance while it was reactorless and still bogged down in its costly war against Iran . |
| 3 | His chosen vehicle is this great lather of a part-comedy , part-thriller , part exercise in rappin' and blasphemin' which lurches about before collapsing face down in its own vomit . |
| 4 | Institutions might even consider sanctions : museums could refuse to lend to an exhibition if the public body behind it is falling down in its conservation duties ( a recent likely candidate for boycotting would have been the Titian exhibition in Venice in 1989 ) . |
| 5 | So the family settled down in its definitive shape : father , mother , daughter and son . |
| 6 | Have you remarked , where a fast-flowing stream comes to a little fall , how the racing water becomes glassy smooth and under it the long fine threads of the water-weed are drawn along in its still-seeming race , trembling a little , but stretched out in the flow ? |
| 7 | It took longer than anyone imagined but on Saturday , £4.6 million , 2,632 days and 360 senior matches later , the Red Red Robin was bobbing along in its own nest again . |
| 8 | He raised two particular areas where he felt that there might be some danger of miscarriages of justice should the legislation go through in its present form . |
| 9 | He stopped for an early beer at a roadside pub in Surrey , then dropped the car off in its lock-up garage and strolled to a cafe for lunch . |
| 10 | Attacking a Steam Tank is very difficult — not the least because it can not be brought to hand-to-hand combat but will always move off in its own turn . |
| 11 | Deaf and dumb people were bitterly disappointed , and the BDDA 's reaction is summed up in its annual report for the year 1932 : No aid from the State was considered even in the most pressing of all problems , the vocational training of school leavers . |
| 12 | It 's a bald statistic which can not really tell what life is like for those bound up in its flat figures . |
| 13 | Yet many easterners complain that , since their revolutions began in 1989 , the Community has been too wrapped up in its own affairs to give them the attention they deserve . |
| 14 | And thus it was that when the day shift set off back to the Barracks that evening , Jackie Tiptoe remained behind , suspended from the ceiling like a crooked spider snarled up in its own web . |
| 15 | In contrast , the new novelists consider themselves first and foremost to be creative artists whose main obligation is to produce a well-crafted work of art that stands up in its own right as an autonomous reality . |
| 16 | Brought to the surface in this way , this problem supplied the staff of the school with a common concern to focus on in its future work . |
| 17 | She says the extensive music library represents a unique resource which the BBC can draw on in its forthcoming battle for listeners with new national commercial radio channels . |
| 18 | The Britches will outlast us both , Helen thought , carrying on in its mindless way until scuppered at last by economic circumstances and the likes of Ron Paget . |
| 19 | And so it seems to me that erm we must look to you sir and Miss Whittaker to say what you feel as er independent erm hearkeners to the debate er we it 's time as I would say for erm North Yorkshire now to face up to what 's going on in its own territory and remove the planning obstacles to what is actually happening and just to make sure that it 's safely tied up with criteria to make sure it does n't erm erm unhappy consequences instead of the happy consequences that we are trying to achieve . |
| 20 | that falls down Hugh , is that people assume because they 've commented that , that when it comes out in its final version it 'll reflect their particular comment . |
| 21 | As the Board pointed out in its second report : |
| 22 | They can be used to simplify the skeleton of the topic still more , until it stands out in its bare bones , giving you a framework on which memory can hang the developments , opinions and controversies . |
| 23 | AN open day for prospective students and their parents at Limavady College of Further Education gave visitors the opportunity to view the work carried out in its various departments and to talk to staff and students . |
| 24 | Over the road , set back in its own garden , a house ; and certainly anyone could see what they liked from the upstairs windows . |
| 25 | Burun had set the target back in its original position , an easy shot . |
| 26 | The ‘ Raising of the Cross ’ , Rubens 's great altarpiece , is newly cleaned and restored and back in its original place in the cathedral . |
| 27 | Might as well put the butterfly book back in its proper place . |
| 28 | When he was satisfied with his appearance , his hair now well gelled back in its customary style , he went to the study and examined his mail . |
| 29 | Quality improvement , as a concept and as a reality , has been around in its present form for a number of decades . |
| 30 | Halley 's comet which is er a big lump of rock that flies around in its own orbit . |