Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His design solution achieved its ends through its spatial ordering of relationships , and through its emphasis on unimpeded and unrestricted communications , both as aids to good management and as counters to misconduct . |
| 2 | The characteristic which singles out a species ; its idiosyncratic style of flying , perching , feeding , ground-moving , preening , posturing which , once observed in the field , identifies it from the rest . |
| 3 | THE 26 August 1989 edition of Do i Posle Polinochi , the popular late-night television magazine was offering its usual mixture of chat and interviews when suddenly there was a pause . |
| 4 | The oldest Classic has come in for its usual share of criticism in the past few weeks , largely due to the disappointing number of entries . |
| 5 | Council officers have a different explanation : it has only one-third its usual tally of accountants because so many have taken voluntary redundancy . |
| 6 | He found he was angry with himself for leaving his seat ; he had badly wanted to hear what his father was about to say , but the all-too-familiar sound of him praising his brother had produced its usual feeling of agitation . |
| 7 | These data suggest an interaction between the antiarrhythmic agent and ischaemia — ie , the antiarrhythmic drug , which slows conduction as its usual mechanism of action , may have intensified the regional ventricular conduction delay accompanying ischaemia and caused ventricular fibrillation during ischaemic episodes . |
| 8 | Each stage of the occupation had its specific brand of collaborator . |
| 9 | It is only by concentrating on the differential element that literary studies can maintain its specific object of study . |
| 10 | Arrangements are being made , we are informed , for those of us who , oddly enough , prefer to have our correspondence marked with its specific place of origin , to deposit our post in a wee box up a close or in a back street away from the main mail collection points . |
| 11 | The firm is supposed to be doing a RISC-based Unix mainframe and is already a licensee of HP 's PA chip which it uses in its 3050 line of Unix workstations . |
| 12 | The Land ( province ) of Prussia , with its historic domination of Germany and its association with militarism , was abolished , and Länder borders were redrawn . |
| 13 | James Joyce , its greatest master of fiction , never settled in England , though he chose to live and die a British subject . |
| 14 | Suffering achieves its greatest act of transformation when it forces us to see how helpless we are , without God 's help to overcome our own natural reactions of bitterness and despair . |
| 15 | Watson was elected a Fellow and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1967 , and by the time he retired in 1979 he had guided it through its greatest period of change since its creation in 1818 , with dramatic increases in membership . |
| 16 | However , the EC urged support for its Aggregate Measure of Support , a gross valuation of all subsidies which could then be used as a basis for reductions . |
| 17 | The moral decay of the working class was seen above all in terms of its deficient pattern of family life , the apparently absent values of domesticity , family responsibility , thrift and accumulation . |
| 18 | It absorbs up to a fifth of its dry weight of water without feeling damp , she says . |
| 19 | The closer alliance between the two houses ( E. Peel will retain its Spanish board of directors and its current staff ) would result in Spanish works of art consigned to Sotheby 's in other parts of the world being returned to Spain for sale if this is felt to be the best venue . |
| 20 | Now it is once again receiving its due meed of praise . |
| 21 | A Tory conference probably has more than its due share of savers . |
| 22 | Additionally , the Institute of Directors publishes its European Directory of Consultants and Advisers and the Department of Trade and Industry has a comprehensive library available . |
| 23 | , chief executive of Courtaulds Marine and Yacht Coatings ( Europe ) , said the deal reflected Courtaulds ' desire ‘ to complete its European network of operations and have a direct involvement in this important European market . ’ |
| 24 | The division of Europe at least protected the East from facing up to its thousand-year feeling of backwardness . |
| 25 | The national debt surged from its 1756 level of £74.6 million to reach £231 million by the end of the American war in 1783 and £820 million by the time of Waterloo . |
| 26 | But penalising gas — the ‘ greenest ’ of the hydrocarbon fuels because of its low level of carbon dioxide emission — would run counter to EC plans to base taxation on carbon content . |
| 27 | Because of its low centre of gravity , this stance not only provides excellent balance , but also makes it easy to kick and strike from the side . |
| 28 | A Martha Graham-based technique with its low centre of gravity , draws everything into the solar plexus in a more primal — some might say natural — form of dance . |
| 29 | Hobbes 's thought , in contrast , was both well known and widely regarded as in need of refutation on account of its low view of man . |
| 30 | One drawback of Spencer Stuart 's long-established position in London and its low turnover of consultants — otherwise seen as great advantages — is the inevitable ageing of its directors and the problem of regeneration . |