Example sentences of "its own [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again these changes would not enable a requesting State to impose its own views on a requested State . |
| 2 | This establishment , a residential home for the elderly , was chosen deliberately because of its multifunctional nature , operating in effect as a self-contained enterprise , responsible ultimately to the parent department but encouraged to manage its own affairs on a day-to-day basis . |
| 3 | Now , with its protest against the wayward and corrupt ways of government by Rome and a demand to run its own affairs in a federal Italy , it is set to top the polls in Milan and Lombardy with as many as 60 members in the next parliament . |
| 4 | Today , Japan sees the whale issue as another example of the West imposing its own values on a vulnerable country . |
| 5 | For the moment let us focus on Said 's subsequent point that if Orientalism and anthropology derive from historicism , this is by no means a thing of the past : of more recent sciences , Said singles out in particular that of world history as practised by Braudel , Wallerstein , Anderson and Wolf , which he contends is still derived from the enterprise of Orientalism and its colluding companion anthropology , and which has refused to encounter and to interrogate its own relationship as a discipline to European imperialism . |
| 6 | Each family had its own bedrooms in one building , joined by short plank walkways to the main living area , where again each family had its own space with a small cooking area . |
| 7 | Edward Heath 's attempts to commit the party to something more dynamic , outward-looking and enterprise-based , after the meeting at Selsdon Park in 1970 , collapsed in the face of a corporate culture which had become used to having things its own way under a succession of both Conservative and Labour governments . |
| 8 | According to Dahl , we can see which group gets its own way on a particular issue and conclude that this group has power . |
| 9 | A third kind of analysis conceives some sections of the middle class ( technicians , managers , engineers , professional employees in the public service and in private industry ) either as constituting an important part of a ‘ new working class ’ which is likely to participate in its own way in a refashioned socialist movement ( Mallet , 1975 ) , or as forming one element — alongside the old industrial working class — in a new class , which is becoming involved in a new type of struggle , directed against those who control the institutions of economic and political decision making , and who reduce it to a condition , not of misery or oppression , but of restricted and dependent participation in the major public affairs of society ( Touraine , 1971a ) . |
| 10 | One of the main problems is that there is a clear separation between the various specialties , each of which has its own payment for a case . |
| 11 | Sadly , the creature drowned itself shortly after his visit by attempting to attack its own reflection in a bucket of water . |
| 12 | The concept that AEA is now able to stand on its own feet as a business is a huge achievement , based on where we were in 1988 . |
| 13 | The company commissioned its own EIA from a former consultant to Tara , Bob Dallas . |
| 14 | It then glues these thin twigs to a wall using its own saliva as a fixative . |
| 15 | Torbay also has its own mini-Malham with a statutory quota of bolt-protected , overhanging testpieces . |
| 16 | Defects can quite often appear after the lease has been granted and the tenant will not expect to have to repair defects as part of its own obligations under a full repairing lease or even through the service charge provisions of the lease where the landlord covenants to repair and charge back . |
| 17 | A distinguished Commission on Electoral Reform set up under the auspices of the Hansard Society published in 1976 a Report in which it included its own proposals for a new electoral system . |
| 18 | China discovered its own road towards a more democratic version of socialism in the course of the 1990s . |
| 19 | As each beast ambled at its own pace along a farm track , the team collected its breath with the help of a gas-tight mask and a weather balloon . |
| 20 | We have in the Conservative group always taken the view that Oxfordshire has erm contributed to its own problems to a very great extend by going , in its projected spending for this year , beyond the level set by the Secretary of State for capping . |
| 21 | The eighties is the end of that era , with the Labour Party hoist on its own identification with a housing form which was borrowed from ideological sources which were never formulated by and for the working class itself . |
| 22 | A modest star like our own Sun will contract under its own gravity in a fairly orderly fashion to become a comparatively small object known as a white dwarf . |
| 23 | The eventual measuring instrument must either be able to cope with such variations or have its own illumination from a stabilised power supply . |
| 24 | Serve potted salmon in its own dish with a cucumber or green salad and perhaps jacket potatoes . |
| 25 | For men like these a university education would have been unthinkable a few years earlier , but in 1920 Burma obtained its own university on a campus outside Rangoon . |
| 26 | Lastly , its own functions as a bank combined with its size and its relationship to the government provide a third channel through which to influence financial markets . |
| 27 | Any grudging admission of Britain 's ultimate dependence upon the United States in the event of war was accompanied by the usual warning that Americans were a " mercurial " people , governed by so " archaic " a constitution that the government might be paralysed by its own people in a crisis . |
| 28 | This usually clears up of its own accord after a few days — thereafter the person has no symptoms but may remain infectious . |
| 29 | It is against the laws of chemistry for a dissolved substance to move of its own accord from a solution of low concentration to one of high concentration . |
| 30 | A third possibility is the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake in a complex modern society which values experts and regularly validates a person 's standing by assessing his expertise . |