Example sentences of "and its [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole building was painted the frost white of cake icing and its shine echoed the gleam of the silent Thames behind . |
| 2 | The aggregate supply curve and its shape allow the introduction of different views of where the macroeconomy can settle and of the significance of economic policy in general and fiscal policy in particular . |
| 3 | This 1662 Prayer Book retained a number of highly contentious features , such as vestments , the sign of the cross in baptism , kneeling at communion , and the ring in marriage , and its preface dismissed the Puritan objections to such practices as ‘ either of dangerous consequence … or else of no consequence at all but utterly frivolous and vain' . |
| 4 | The tail wriggles and writhes in its mouth , or in its claws , and its liveliness preoccupies the would-be killer to such an extent that it hardly notices the rapidly escaping form of the rest of the lizard . |
| 5 | Accordingly the associability of A ( and its tendency to evoke the OR ) will be higher in the former case because the differences in reinforcer magnitude that follow the stimulus are particularly marked . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Rule 22 and Appendix 4 to the Code impose obligations on the target and its registrar to provide the offeror 's receiving agent , following the announcement of an offer , with the target 's register of members ( in computer-readable form , where practicable ) to keep the target 's register up-to-date , to provide the offeror 's receiving agent with copies of all documents which will result in a change to the last copy register provided to the offeror or its advisers , to permit the offeror 's receiving agent access to the target 's register at all times during the closing stages of the offer and to register transfers promptly during the offer ( see para 12.4 below ) . |
| 7 | A raft and its crew pass the Liver Building as they row their way along the Mersey Picture : RICHARD WILLIAMS |
| 8 | Worst of all , Christ Church Canterbury was burnt in 1011 and its archbishop murdered the following year after refusing to be ransomed . |
| 9 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 10 | Faith in reason and its ability to crack the code of the universe by discovering the scientific laws that sustain it will become the new legalism of the dawning secular age . |
| 11 | Practitioners respect its low toxicity and its ability to withstand the enormous pressures generated in the back teeth . |
| 12 | Clearly , there will be a wide overlap between the role of the environment in contributing to this external cause of a rhythm , its effect upon an organism 's behaviour , and its ability to adjust the body clock . |
| 13 | The remote monitoring service was originally put on trial about a year ago in the retail sector — one of Granada 's biggest markets — and its success prompted the firm to adopt the scheme company-wide . |
| 14 | It was shown at Bristol City Art Gallery and Museum in 1976 and its opening marked the inauguration of the association of Friends of the Theatre Collection . |
| 15 | Now that feudalism had collapsed , taking with it the traditional form of power , the great lairds had better make themselves rich , he believed , and land and its development offered the only way forward . |
| 16 | It was the geomantic sign and the powerful bull guild which persuaded Bladud to found the first university in the world at Stamford , and its influence made the town prosperous and important in the Middle Ages . |
| 17 | The sound it emits scans the scene in front of it , rather like a beam of light , and its brain uses the echoes received to form a " sound picture " of the scene . |
| 18 | This factor was exacerbated by Chinese criticism ( at that stage , expressed privately ) of the USSR 's lack of revolutionary internationalism and its willingness to appease the imperialists . |
| 19 | It is possible to remove the interior bulkhead but it supports the sides of the body and its removal weakens the structure . |
| 20 | Launched in 1986 , Wisk was the UK 's first heavy duty liquid detergent and its advent revolutionised the market . |
| 21 | Now , home from the Caribbean Sea , he was seeking a comfortable spot in which to retire , and Sinkport , with water all around its ancient houses and its church crowning the hill , seemed as good a place as any . |
| 22 | From the early part of the nineteenth century , until absorbed in the new social purity movements of the 1880s , the Society for the Suppression of Vice ( founded in 1802 and known universally as the Vice Society ) remained the Victorian 's basic legal force against the obscene , and its work demonstrates the often close relationship between private vigilance and public authorities . |
| 23 | It was nearing completion , and its completion embodied the hope of that now familiar wholeness so precious to its author : everything seemed to fit together , all experience could at last be integrated . |
| 24 | Colipase is secreted by the exocrine pancreas as the precursor , procolipase and its activation involves the tryptic cleavage of the Arg 5 -Gly 6 bond releasing an N terminal pentapeptide . |
| 25 | They have a 40% vote in the choice of the Labour leader ( with the party 's MPs and its rank-and-file sharing the rest ) ; up to 40% in the choice of parliamentary candidates ; and hitherto some 90% of the vote at the party 's annual conference , though this will come down to 70% this year . |
| 26 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 27 | We will support the efforts of British Coal and its workforce to improve the industry 's performance . |
| 28 | The two most irreconcilable differences between the JSP and the other opposition elements ( excluding the Japan Communist Party — JCP — which all parties eschewed ) were the JSP 's opposition to nuclear power and its commitment to revise the terms of the Japan-US Security Treaty . |
| 29 | It had no heating , its paint was peeling , and its wallpaper obeyed the rule of the new canon 's parents that it does not show the dirt when it is dark . |
| 30 | It was the Rolls Royce , Cadillac of its time and those of us who flew it knew of its ruggedness and its capability to do the daylight bombing . |