Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But from time to time it has been right to reconsider its detailed application . |
| 2 | We will never reform the justice system until we are prepared to acknowledge its fundamental defects . |
| 3 | Instead , its members teach in several departments of the faculty ( Economics , Education , Politics and Social Anthropology ) , and students are welcome to attend its weekly seminars . |
| 4 | Without this exodus of labour from Southern Europe , which allowed it to reconstruct a reserve army at home , West German capitalism would have been unable to achieve its formidable expansion of outputs in the 1960s without a catastrophic decline in the rate of profit . |
| 5 | One is left to wonder if the malevolent unseen spirit was waiting to claim its victim , having been unable to satisfy its evil appetite . |
| 6 | It has been able to shed its loss-making operations without the need for lengthy legal procedures such as those which normally accompany the proposal to close a branch passenger service . |
| 7 | Those who have been able to overlook its skimpy fur , which gives it a gangling , half-naked appearance , insist that in personality it is a sheer delight , retaining an almost kittenish playfulness even when adult . |
| 8 | Yet his Government has seldom been able to service its foreign debt , which stood at $4,200 million by 1983 . |
| 9 | The Press would never have been able to do its destructive job without the help of Labour figures who could n't pass a TV camera or journalist 's notebook without making a disloyal remark . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ The IRA , for too long , has been able to conceal its real sectarianism but recently the mask has begun to slip as they become more desperate for political success . ’ |
| 11 | By viewing the entire drawing it may be possible to deduce its intended function . |
| 12 | The carnivore will at least have to be mobile to catch its moving prey . |
| 13 | To some extent this may be ameliorated by offering a cash alternative to shareholders , but the offeror must be prepared to defend its own financial condition and may even be compelled to issue a profit or dividend forecast in order to buttress its position . |
| 14 | At the same time , the purchaser will not wish to return cash to the vendor that he has not yet collected from debtors , nor will the purchaser be willing to use its own funds to satisfy creditors on behalf of the vendor . |
| 15 | Since this possibility existed , the court considered that it would be improper to substitute its own judgment as to whether it was wise to proceed for that of the directors . |
| 16 | ‘ While the Labour Party must be free to reach its own conclusions , we should listen to the contributions which others wish to make to what must now become an important national debate . ’ |
| 17 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
| 18 | An underlying principle of the project was that each school must be free to develop its own proposal and curriculum plan in the light of its own particular setting , needs , and history , and that this was not only practically desirable but also essential if the professional autonomy of the school staff was to be respected . |
| 19 | In my Bill , for which I seek a Second Reading today , the provision is that Parliament should be elected by the single transferable vote in the first instance , but thereafter , in subsequent elections , Parliament should be free to determine its own electoral system as long as that is consistent with the principles of proportionality . |
| 20 | Some amber can be found washed up onto the shores of East Anglia , but its role as a source appears to be minimal given its relative rarity in cemeteries near to that coast . |
| 21 | Since the paratone is a much less familiar concept than the orthographic paragraph , it may be useful to have its identifying features described . |
| 22 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 23 | China , whilst approving the airport plan in principle , had been insistent that it should be able to set its own terms for the size and financing of the project . |
| 24 | The memorandum was widely seen as a victory for the Chinese side in the negotiations , with the UK effectively agreeing to Chinese demands that it should be able to set its own terms for the size and financing of the project . |
| 25 | Whereas Moscow tried to pose as the champion of German unity therefore , the West posed as the defender of German liberty , arguing that reunification must only come after free nation-wide elections , and that Germany should be able to choose its own Allies . |
| 26 | A French company wishing to build a plant in West Germany needs to be able to turn its French francs into D-marks . |
| 27 | He has had to find an alternative group in Europe which will be able to hold its own against the formidable record of Eliot Gardiner 's English Baroque Soloists , and has chosen well with the Hungarian ‘ authentic ’ orchestra Capella Savaria . |
| 28 | They believe that only as a free-standing business will SAP be able to hold its own against the competition — particularly with world demand for soda ash growing at less than one per cent a year . |
| 29 | Not until that is done will the sea be able to recommence its erosive activities at the foot of the cliff . |
| 30 | For Israel 's way to be hidden Yahweh could mean that God can not see Israel 's way , or will not see Israel 's way , or has caused Israel not to be able to see its own way . |