Example sentences of "that [verb] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be recalled that , according to this theory , a stimulus is held to be fully effective only when it is able to generate the Al ( primary activation ) state in the node that constitutes its central representation . |
| 2 | The New Critics did not believe , of course , that the value of poetry lay in isolated metaphors or similes ; on the contrary , they insisted that in good literature all the components of the text contributed to the reconciliation of opposites that constitutes its poetic function . |
| 3 | 3DO Inc , the San Mateo , California start-up that revealed its licensable standard for a multimedia system of the future last month and has specified the Advanced RISC Machines Ltd RISC as the core of the Interactive Multiplayer ( CI No 2,082 ) , wants to capitalise on the excitement generated by making an initial public offering of about 2.5m shares at between $10 and $12 a time to raise $30m or so ; 3DO and its chief executive , Trip Hawkins , have already raised some $20m from from partners including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , its MCA Inc , Time Warner Inc , AT&T Co , Electronic Arts Inc and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. 3DO has signed Morgan Stanley & Co , but the prospectus is not out . |
| 4 | In this way , the new upper floor is prevented from crossing the original three-light arched windows which serve the end bays of the lower storey , and the stair is prevented from conflicting with the central window of this range by the introduction of a further quarter-landing at an intermediate level that turns its lowest flight parallel to the side elevation at a level just below the window-sill ( Fig 49 ) . |
| 5 | There , on its otherwise camouflaged skin , appears a pair of huge staring eye-spots that make its rear view look remarkably like the face of a predatory bird . |
| 6 | Hauppauge , New York-based Standard Microsystems Corp is cutting the recommended retail price of its Token-Ring network adaptors to $400 from $600 , saying that using its own semiconductor technology makes it possible to cut prices while continuing to add features and maintain margins on the adaptors . |
| 7 | Bourgie Bourgie : Appallingly-titled jazz quartet that got its just reward . |
| 8 | What we need is managerial hierarchy that understands its own nature and purpose . |
| 9 | Any more massive star that exhausts its nuclear fuel will collapse completely under its own gravity . |
| 10 | These are separate topics in their own right , just as sewing itself is a hobby that has its own literature which we commend if you wish to learn more . |
| 11 | It is a scene of national psychopathology that has its humorous moments as well as its deplorable aspects . |
| 12 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 13 | The ‘ great divide ’ has been re-established , by the appeal to literacy , apparently on a ‘ scientific ’ basis and apparently without the offensive appeals to inherent cultural and intellectual superiority that discredited its early phases . |
| 14 | So Hanson went ahead and brought in outside touring companies that offered simple sets , and a cast of up to ten people , who could stage a place that found its own level in front of people who did n't think twice about live theatre apart from taking their youngsters to the pantomime at Christmas . |
| 15 | Below : If you have an old house and want tiles that match its particular period , Old Terracotta tiles from Fired Earth will create a charming atmosphere , but are a practical option in a kitchen . |
| 16 | The project will examine how well people can use their judgement to forecast the future behaviour of a system ( eg. a business , economy or traffic system ) on the basis of a series of observations that characterize its past behaviour . |
| 17 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 18 | In addition , many of them can be tied into Personal Construct Theory in a way that allows its associated Repertory Grid Technique to be used both as an investigatory tool and as a means whereby the perception of art might be enhanced . |
| 19 | The weapons bay is too small to accommodate much of a bomb : it is designed to take the AMRAAM , a new air-to-air missile that uses its own radar to hunt down and destroy enemy aircraft . |
| 20 | The explanation is that the planets were believed to rule the hours of the day is well as the days of the week and that each day was associated with the planet that rules its first hour . |
| 21 | If it goes ahead with the project , it will find that it has a reward for the investment that exceeds its wildest dreams . |
| 22 | ONCE AGAIN , ARTHUR MILLER gets a better production than he deserves , with David Thacker 's fine mounting of All My Sons , a play about the evil men do in a past that reaches its strangling tentacles into the present . |
| 23 | A hungry nation that rationed its scanty food-supplies till 1952 needed to be fed , its industries built or rebuilt , a health service kept open to all . |
| 24 | I shall argue that a political society that accepts integrity as a political virtue thereby becomes a special form of community , special in a way that promotes its moral authority to assume and deploy a monopoly of coercive force . |
| 25 | In practice the programme usually means exercising sovereign control over a , so far as possible , continuous stretch of territory with clearly defined borders , inhabited by a homogeneous population that forms its essential body of citizens . |
| 26 | It can be argued , for example , that a supplier that commits its productive facilities for the supply of one customer is more committed to that customer and carries more risks than the customer 's shareholders , who can quickly dispose of shares in the market . |
| 27 | She had a low , musical voice that owed its perfect diction to an expensive private education , and her conversation left Belinda way out of her depth . |
| 28 | The temperature rise is registered in the former case by an attached or adjacent thermocouple that delivers its thermoelectric e.m.f. to a moving-coil voltmeter of suitable sensitivity . |
| 29 | Mr Scowcroft was , until his appointment , the co-chairman of a committee drawn from the defence elites of both parties , which in February found a form of words that satisfied its wide range of members and came down gently in favour of Midgetman first and rail-MX only later . |
| 30 | Watching it in action is like seeing some fantastic automatic sewing machine , dropping and lifting its pen to draw and terminate the thousands of lines with a speed that belies its great accuracy . |