Example sentences of "and [noun] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet treachery was the greatest crime in the feudal code : loyalty and generosity its supreme virtues . |
| 2 | It was observed : ‘ In most villages of the realm there is some one dresser or worker of leather , and in most of the market towns iij or iiij or v , and many great towns and cities x or xx , ’ and indeed , with cattle and timber its chief products , the Weald was a natural location , and local bark , of which colliers and ironmasters had plenty to spare , was much in demand by tanners . |
| 3 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 4 | Much of the bureaucracy 's time was absorbed in checking and double-checking its own work . |
| 5 | Both Croft and Cooper assaulted the honours system and Lloyd George 's use of patronage , but by 1922 they had joined forces with a wider Die-hard campaign of which the Duke of Northumberland was the figurehead and Maxse and Gwynne its main publicists . |
| 6 | It was here that the Fifth Monarchist movement was born , with Allhallows its centre and Feake and Simpson its first leaders . |
| 7 | Yet Tom Fawthrop could write in It52 that the RSSF represented a move away from ‘ the sectarian left ’ and ‘ the move into a deeper , more imaginative level of politics … we will be the first generation in history to consciously plan and map-out its own future , and create a society of its own . ’ |