Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When the stress is removed the chain segments will diffuse back to their unstressed positions even though the whole molecule may have changed its spatial position in the meantime .
2 If a form of association is declared , its spatial effect in the geometric domain must be checked and preserved .
3 Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 .
4 She had been impressed by the view , the quite breath-taking view , from the headland of Posillipo round to the curiously named Egg Castle , a box of brown stone on its rocky promontory in the Bay and on farther to the Sorrento Peninsula beyond .
5 Established around 1230 by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great , the castle stands perched on its rocky peninsula over the little seaside resort and commands superb views over Tremadog Bay .
6 Dimitrov formed his government in November 1991 [ see p. 38583 ] , reliant on the support of the ethnic Turks ' Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF ) for its working majority in the Assembly .
7 The Radio Production Centre ( CEPRA ) in Cochabamba , Bolivia , has received the 1992 Silver Condor award from the Communication Commission of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference and the Bolivian Radio Education organisation in recognition of its outstanding work in the service of the Bolivian people .
8 It is a native of southern Europe , but perfectly easy to grow in cool temperate climates , and gets its botanical name from the Latin calends , " the first of every month " , meaning that it can be in bloom throughout the year .
9 The DoE 's difficulty was made worse by its maladroit handling of the press and contacts with Britain 's scientists and environmental groups .
10 So instead they turn to the past , to an idea of what the unspoiled working class community might have looked like in its classic phase before the War , before bombs , bulldozers and planners together swept away the old slum environment with its maze of narrow streets , its self-contained economy of tenements and factories , corner shops and pubs , and its equally complex , ingrown network of grannies , uncles and lifelong ‘ mates ’ .
11 The series serves relentlessly to interrogate the concept of the portrait in its classic form as the portrait bust .
12 Moiseyev further announced on Oct. 27 ( while Gorbachev was visiting Finland-see p. 36984 ) that the Soviet Army was to institute an additional cut of 40,000 troops and 1,200 tanks , as well as " substantial cuts ' in artillery , in its north-western group in the Baltic area .
13 She points out that what feminist thought has done is to take pornography out of its usual position in the argument between conservatives and liberals over censorship , and to put it into a completely different framework ( p. 137 ) .
14 From that position he could satisfy himself that the pig-swill truck was gone from its usual spot in the rear driveway .
15 The bank has dropped its usual review of the prospects for the real economy from the latest quarterly bulletin , but it remains convinced that real economic growth will come when exports start rising and the country 's creditors decide that assets are cheap and start spending .
16 135 for 3 became 138 for 6 and the writing was in its usual place on the wall .
17 The gun was returned to its usual place in the comer of the room and no more mention was made of the dead jackdaw .
18 He rose with the intention of going to light the lamp , which was in its usual place in the centre of the table .
19 It starts up again on April 6 at its usual site in the Viewley Centre car park .
20 Line A acquires its specific meaning in the light of line B. It is not so rewarding to ask which terms of A correspond to which terms of B , as to ask whether and in what way line B specifies line A.
21 Now its UK managing director Bent Henriksen has begun a nationwide marketing drive in an effort to replicate its Scandinavian success in the UK 's already over-crowded market-place .
22 Indeed , one property developer Bexbuild Developments , had been listed by Prior Harwin a year after its market-making agreement with the licensed dealer had been terminated .
23 With this , the petrified toddler would disappear in the rushing water and , floundering like an asthmatic salmon , be tossed like a cork all the way down , occasionally smashing its as-yet-unhardened cranium into the wall and ending up bobbing dazed in the pool at the bottom , while other members of the family zoomed in with the Camcorder , dreaming of the £1,000 they 'd win from Jeremy Beadle .
24 Therefore land , which is not depreciated , will be shown at its historic cost in the balance sheet .
25 He said the United States was changing its historic policy in the region .
26 We might think of this full information value of output , , as the value of output which government policy is trying to achieve even though there is not full information ; or , more loosely , one might think of it or its aggregate equivalent as the natural level of output .
27 A YEAR after the Exxon Valdez spilt its sticky cargo along the shores of Prince William Sound , the main oil-shipping countries are locked in bitter battle over how to pay to clean up such incidents .
28 A bolas spider , swinging its sticky lure through the air to capture a flying moth , is behaving in a way that is innate .
29 ‘ Save you 30p , it all adds up , ’ he said , reducing my glamorous cosmopolitan personality to its due place in the Oxford scheme of things .
30 More recently its inconsistent behaviour over the publication of DTI reports into important City scandals has also raised questions of judgment , undue political influence and its due care to the public interest .
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