Example sentences of "some of its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Okay , erm , if you break a number down into its prime factors , then you can look at the prime factors and see whether other numbers would go into it , so if we take sort of say , three sixty , and find some of its prime factors .
2 It is possible , and indeed likely , that many of them voted for the party despite some of its specific plans and intentions , and opinion polls sometimes indicate that a majority of those who support a party or government do so while opposing one or more of its particular policies .
3 This chapter describes the ACORN system in some detail , and examines some of its specific applications to market segmentation and consumer targeting .
4 The Government could breathe a sigh of relief at the disappearance of some of its fiercest critics .
5 Building on the earlier work , this study investigates some of its unanswered questions in the context of City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) ; institutions which , themselves , were created to be innovatory .
6 The Atomic Energy Authority is giving some of its protective equipment to the Ukraine to help with the continuing clean-up operation at Chernobyl .
7 The Bank 's other defence is that some of its recent studies on Africa — of which there are horribly many — suggest that the closing years of the 1980s did indeed see stronger growth and lower inflation in the countries it lent to .
8 ‘ Look , here are some of its recent scratches .
9 BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines .
10 BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines .
11 Coincident with , but unrelated to the Conservative tide in the wee hours of Friday morning , Tokyo 's beleaguered stock market bounced dramatically to erase some of its recent losses .
12 In November 1991 , during a second Russian Revolution , the Department of Slavonic Studies reunited some of its former students from the more recent past , to celebrate the anniversary .
13 Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour .
14 A new world order was forged from the disintegration of the Soviet empire , though there is a bitter harvest from that in ex-Yugoslavia and terrible threats still hang over Russia and some of its former satellite states .
15 Fairlie emphasizes that the House has no corporate feeling , it can not stand apart from the government , and the parliamentary reformers ' idea that the House can recover some of its former powers is both impracticable and , in his judgement , undesirable .
16 Consideration is now being given to using the colonies as a breeding stock to reintroduce the monk into some of its former territories , including the Senegal River , the Canary Islands and the Black Sea .
17 It was subsequently used — symbolically , some of its former pupils may have felt , as a police station with prison cells .
18 Robson Rhodes has been equally uncompromising with some of its former clients .
19 Gatting 's Faisalabad outburst is interpreted with a certain amount of knowing understanding , but Lillee , the Chappells , Lloyd , Holding , Croft , Richards , Greig and Miandad join him and many others in a category which should be cringeing when thinking back on some of its unsavoury behaviour .
20 On April 6 the CRA repealed some of its restrictive edicts from the early 1960s , including those directed against Jehovah 's Witnesses and Baptists .
21 According to Western media reports , the meeting agreed in principle to allow the SOC to retain some of its armed forces during the period prior to elections .
22 In 1880 , some of its greatest successes in diffusing its institutions and ideas were still to come .
23 Under McGuinness , the IRA developed its virtually impenetrable cell network and scored some of its greatest coups , including the murder of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 .
24 Paradoxically , danger and discomfort are often severest at temperatures close to freezing point , when outer clothing , wetted by rain or melting snow , loses some of its insulating properties .
25 We conclude our accounts of each approach by looking at some of its distinctive variants to demonstrate the range of options in the neo-Marxist literature .
26 A drive through Toronto this morning passing some of its famous sights such as City Hall , Parliament and Toronto 's harbourfront .
27 Or take a boat to Maddalena Island from Palau , and see some of its innumerable bays , channels , coves and promontories .
28 Maddalena Island from Palau , and see some of its innumerable bays , channels , coves and promontories .
29 ‘ It is good for Mayon to release some of its hot air , ’ said one 93-year-old who will leave only when ‘ Mayon gets too violent ’ .
30 Since the language is only recently published and is not yet implemented on any commercially available computer system ( Apple 4 when it is available may support a subset of the SMALLTALK ) ( see reference 8 ) , we shall not try to describe its structural syntax but only some of its essential elements .
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