Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Mr Segni , who is 50 , and Mr Orlando , who is 43 , reproach their party for its inability to bring in new blood and fresh ideas . |
| 2 | Its top lip begins to extend and grow like some sort of elephant-horse , and the corners of its mouth pull up higher and higher so that its mouth looks longer and longer , as if a heavy-handed rider is pulling mercilessly at it . |
| 3 | Through out the period the government made crystal clear its anxiety to shore up noble landownership . |
| 4 | Many felt that the SARFU should have fought the case , even with no hope of success , just to prove its determination to stamp out illegal drugs from the game . |
| 5 | Belgium subsequently insisted that one third of the waste be returned to Germany , where , however , there are no licensed storage facilities for it : opposition from the public and state governments had prevented the federal government from pursuing its plan to set up licensed reprocessing sites . |
| 6 | Yet its origin goes back hundreds of years , to the days when the women camp followers of the mighty Persian armies slept in their scarlet silk tents . |
| 7 | So , I abandoned French and in its place took up Hungarian studies . |
| 8 | Newly independent Ukraine is angering the West by its reluctance to give up nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | The European Commission is set to take Britain to the European Court over its failure to carry out environmental impact assessments ( EIA ) on three motorway extension projects . |
| 10 | An electron encircling a nucleus is continuously subject to acceleration as its velocity keeps on changing direction . |
| 11 | The conference also overwhelmingly renewed its policy to bring back capital punishment . |
| 12 | ‘ We are actively pursuing the matter with the contractor employed on its behalf to carry out this work . ’ |
| 13 | I think that feeling has got to be dispelled and it 's for these points that the , for these reasons the government needs to turn its attention a little bit more er to the issues that I that I have raised and I would refer in conclusion Madam de deputy speaker , the minister to the Bank of England 's er memorandum submitted to the treasury and civil service er select committee in its report published on eighth of December last year when at page a hundred and eighty five they draw attention to the European directives that the minister himself referred to . |
| 14 | For signals of ultra-high radio frequency , on the other hand , say , 300 MHz , the air wavelength is 100 cm and the distributed nature of the line needs to be taken into account whenever its length exceeds around 1 cm . |
| 15 | Vanners Silks is by far the oldest company , its history stretching back 250 years to the Huguenot weavers who came over to this country from France . |
| 16 | With its total control of spacing , its ability to print out separate instrument parts , the transposing facility and easy to understand manual , Composers Pen must be one of the best in its field — except for the final output . |
| 17 | I usually say to patients who have had an inferior infarct that once in hospital the worst is over ; the main cause of mortality then is pump failure and one of the striking contributions of thrombolytic therapy , to be dealt with later , is its ability to open up coronary arteries and prevent myocardial damage , pump failure and all the complications . |
| 18 | The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance . |