Example sentences of "it [verb] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Ship slowed its fall and drifted down across the scrublands until it met its own shadow . |
| 32 | But can it survive its new boss ? |
| 33 | Indeed , even when the Schools Council diverted its attention to the whole curriculum , in contrast to its preoccupation with individual areas or aspects , it maintained its non-recommendatory stance . |
| 34 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 35 | ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and |
| 36 | A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators . |
| 37 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 38 | One might say that when a particular household is confronted by a mystical threat , it dissolves its individual identity into that of a larger social unit whose size is determined by the severity of the threat . |
| 39 | Essentially a single-breasted riding coat with the tails removed and the fronts considerably shortened , it retained its pronounced waist . |
| 40 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 41 | It retained its old destination boxes and other appointments . |
| 42 | Always a big , fleshy animal , it retained its large frame when many other British cattle became fashionably short-legged and stocky in the 1940s . |
| 43 | The clue to the GL 's satisfying performance is that it develops its maximum torque at a modest 2,500 rpm , pulling strongly from low revs , making it an easy-going cruiser without the need for constant recourse to the five-speed gearbox . |
| 44 | It owes its second chance of life to an alert dock worker . |
| 45 | As attractive as the 900 T16S is , it owes its seductive lines to function rather than fashion . |
| 46 | It owes its unique status to the fact that the people who developed modern science and in many other ways created the modern world community had acknowledged the supremacy of gold since prehistoric times . |
| 47 | And at the same time , it owes its very existence to an alliance of social forces that sees government as the instrument of social domination — whether by a ruling class , a small party or tribal elite or a coalition of either with the bureaucracy of the state . |
| 48 | Though Labour 's success was limited to , and by , its parliamentary approach , it used its enhanced relationship with the working classes to develop , particularly in the 1930s , policies to deal with the unemployed , fascism and the Spanish Civil War . |
| 49 | it press its tender lips against the bold |
| 50 | No more than the fact that a company owning a fishing vessel is incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom does the fact that it has its principal place of business in the United Kingdom and that 75 per cent . |
| 51 | Thus consumption represents the individual appropriation of the social product ; ‘ it has its irreducible moment , that of satisfying a ‘ need ’ ‘ . |
| 52 | You may be dissatisfied with your reflection in the mirror but you do have to admit that it has its good points ! |
| 53 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 54 | But it has its mundane side , like backache and swollen ankles . |
| 55 | Our interest lies chiefly with the main board since it is here that investor pressure or the lack of it has its main significance . |
| 56 | Among the Conservatives , the equivalent is the 1922 Committee ( since it was founded in that year ) but it has its weekly meetings without ministers or shadow ministers present , dealing with the party leaders through an elected chairman . |
| 57 | It has its funny side but ultimately it is about sadness . |
| 58 | In a recent television programme on the subject of war photography ( presented somewhat predictably by William Shawcross — the Vietnam industry may cast its net wide but it has its favourite media starts and Shawcross is one of them ) . |
| 59 | Some garages will adjust your car free of charge when it has its next service . |
| 60 | It has its own Parliament , members of which have , since 1979 , been directly elected by member states ( by proportional representation in all cases other than that of Great Britain ) ; the European Court of Justice ; the Council of Ministers ( consisting of a representative of the government of each member state ) ; and the Commission ( the members of which are full-time administrators ) |