Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the second incident of its kind on the same stretch of motorway , in two days . |
| 2 | The IMF is a quasi-academic and apolitical organisation and its advice is based on its assessment of a few key economic ratios . |
| 3 | With the backing of President North , the Josephite Church was building its sanctuary in the former state of Utah . |
| 4 | There is no such thing , mind you , as private property for nine tenths of the population : its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those nine tenths . |
| 5 | The compensation claim was of symbolic importance to the Sandinistas and followed a 1986 ruling by the International Court of Justice that the US had broken international law and had committed illegal acts in its support of the former contras . |
| 6 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 7 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |
| 8 | In 1991 , the NYOS earned nearly 60 per cent from sponsorship , compared to an average of 41 per cent for youth orchestras , while the SCO raised around 17 per cent of its income from the same source , double the national average of 8 per cent . |
| 9 | The government , publishing its reply on the same day , stated that it had no legal liability to pay compensation , rejected the report 's assertions that actions fell short of the standards appropriate to the regulator , and further asserted that the general handling of the licensing of the Barlow Clowes partnership was careful and considerate . |
| 10 | Australia has a marsupial " mole " , superficially almost indistinguishable from the familiar moles of other continents , but pouched , making its living in the same way as other moles and with the same enormously strengthened forepaws for digging . |
| 11 | If however each of the enterprises achieves more than two thirds of its turnover within the same single member state , then the merger does not come under the Regulation . |
| 12 | It is unlikely a team will get all the details of its programme at the same time as the call to the work . |
| 13 | Now the public may enjoy its stately grandeur and the magnificent flowering trees of its parkland at the same time , perhaps , pondering upon the enterprise and ethics with which the magnificent property was founded . |
| 14 | The accepted wisdom that bulk car manufacturers buy exclusive marques ( Chrysler and Lamborghini , et cetera in the hope of garnering reflected glory is misplaced : any benefit that might accrue to the Escort by dint of its coming from the same stable as the Virage would be heavily outweighed by the damage done to the Virage by the Escort . |
| 15 | … on the physical resource of water in all its spatial and temporal inequalities of occurrence , and by its conceptualization of the many systems subsumed under the hydrological cycle … |
| 16 | Nick Price says that point to point is just like the cheltenham gold cup … its run under the same rules as the grand national … the big difference is that this is amateur … totally amateur … but its a boom sport and very popular in this area |
| 17 | Apart from the start state , which must be presented in full , any state can be described as its parent plus a few more details . |
| 18 | In my opinion , this empty disputation will eventually take its place with the many other myths of human evolution . |
| 19 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 20 | Ratners does most of its business in the few short weeks before Christmas . |
| 21 | Occasionally the sun would appear from behind a roof-top , and she would feel its warmth for a few seconds . |
| 22 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 23 | This was built in 1582 by the Teatini Fathers and took its name from a former church attached to a monastery of the Brothers of St Anthony , a curious horse-riding fraternity who ‘ kept alight the fires of St Anthony ’ . |
| 24 | That argument rests on the claim that the universe displays the hand of its Architect in the same way as a human artefact is recognisable as the work of an intelligent designer . |
| 25 | The LEA 's detachment and its knowledge of a few dozen ( or even a few hundred ) other institutions could be of great value . |
| 26 | The most contentious issue discussed was Latin America 's attitude to Cuba following the change in its relationship with the former Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Until 1976 the Commission had responsibility for England , Wales and Scotland , but thereafter its role in the latter countries has been taken over by the Welsh and Scottish Development Agencies ( Carney and Hudson 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | For example , the analysis of stylistic details of the representation on a coin , such as the treatment of the hair or the eye , and its comparison with the same features in other well-dated art forms such as vase painting or sculpture , should enable a date to be applied to a coin series , particularly in a period of rapid stylistic change in the arts ( such as early Greece ) . |
| 29 | The emergence of the SCCs and the ASEA , for example , has been shown to have arisen from the work of the COS , and to have copied its basic committee structure , together with its use of a few paid organizers supervising a large number of volunteers . |
| 30 | Whereas using the device in the former genre displays acting skill advantageously , its use in the latter is not only more expensive and difficult but tends to draw attention to the technical device rather too obviously . |