Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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1 | I wish to move a petition signed by four hundred and one people organised by the Hikehams Community Association asking the full county council to freeze its decision on of the Hikehams and Moat er merger issue . |
2 | For all the apparent scepticism levelled at these bodies from other quarters , the senior financial officers canvassed for their views of the ICAS research study found little to question in its setting out of the existing problems and the responsibilities for central elements of corporate governance . |
3 | And , with the present government 's abolition of the local-authority Parker Morris house-building standards and its pruning down of the building control system , the standard of new homes may fall . |
4 | I am aware of most of its history in America , its formation out of the Pontiac Buggy Company , its takeover by General Motors and its sibling Pontiac — that is all fairly well documented . |
5 | TopLog says it is only waiting on Univel to get its stuff out of the door and was originally set to go this month . |
6 | This is another reason for travelling with the dog adequately restrained , rather than allowing it to put its head out of the window , like this Newfoundland . |
7 | Pushing its head out of the way , I thrust the flambeau into its stall , to see if there might be kerosene or paraffin stored there , or at least a good stack of hay . |
8 | In a similar way , the circumstance that the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages formed its hierarchy out of the best brains in the land , regardless of their estate , birth or fortune , was one of the principal means of consolidating ecclesiastical rule and suppressing the laity . |
9 | For some reason , shortly after the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist took its number out of the phone book , she started to forget to lisp . |
10 | Just as a wild leopard would store its prey out of the reach of scavengers and rival predators high in the branches of a tree , Harriet took her victim on to the roof out of Elie 's reach . |
11 | The charge means that the Board is entitled to recover the shortfall on its expenditure out of the property that has been recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings . |
12 | Everyone on the trams and buses was carrying bales and bundles , so that the freak morning rush-hour looked like an immense double-decker funeral cortege , winding its way out of the centre of Glasgow in every direction . |
13 | Towards the eastern end of the Fontburn Reservoir , the path makes its way out of the woods and heads first south , and then you turn right along the line of the shake holes — natural craters formed by water — eroding limestone . |
14 | One of the sheep pushed its way out of the flock in response to the lamb 's feeble noise . |
15 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |
16 | After a while the skin of the pupa splits open , and the fully-formed adult insect ( or imago ) emerges and tunnels its way out of the gall . |
17 | So generous is this bequest by birds to their young that a chick needs no additional food from which to build the flesh and bones and feathers of its infant body , and it still has enough energy left over to break its way out of the shell . |
18 | Something 's snaked its way out of the Spanish Civil War — from fifty years ago — to wrap itself round our throats . ’ |
19 | It would have been physically and economically impossible for the whole of Africa , for example , to twist and turn its way out of the straitjacket that colonialism imposed upon its economies and industrialize to the point where it could compete effectively on the world market in the space of 10 years . |
20 | And I do n't propose to consider here whether Labour should lurch to the left to find its way out of the wilderness . |
21 | With a spate of infrastructure projects already planned , the government hopes that Japan can build its way out of the recession . |
22 | SCOTLAND 's engineering sector is still resolutely clawing its way out of the recessionary pit , according to the latest quarterly review issued yesterday by Scottish Engineering , the employers ' organisation . |