Example sentences of "its own [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem was not helped by each lab having its own preference for the indicator to be used with sodium carbonate . |
| 2 | Each leaf , with its own Pledge for the Planet will be pinned on a giant ‘ tree ’ which is to be put up outside the summit building in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 3 | Now , in the very week Greenpeace urged us all to send postcards to Mr Scopes , the chief executive of ICI paints , to say , ‘ I wo n't buy Dulux paints until ICI stops des-troying the ozone layer ’ , Northampton borough council struck its own blow for the atmosphere . |
| 4 | In that case an aggressive demand defeats its own purpose for the use of aggression to ensure compliance suggests that compliance is not really expected . |
| 5 | Her position as expressed to me was that if the private sector wanted to use its own money for the tunnel then we should certainly not stand in the way . |
| 6 | Scotland has its own framework for the encouragement of enterprise , investment and training ; its own education system which continues to excel , with more pupils leaving school better qualified and more going on to further and higher education ; its own health budgets which deliver high standards of care ; and its own glorious inheritance of buildings and countryside . |
| 7 | The collective noun for each of these types is ‘ coffin' , but the trade maintained its own nomenclature for the constituent parts . |
| 8 | CAMRA has launched its own manifesto for the next General Election with policies to be presented to candidates of all parties for action in the next parliament . |
| 9 | TVR surprised the world with the exciting new Chimaera and a V8 of its own design for the stunning Griffith |
| 10 | But feminism never prescribes its own politics for the inhabitants . |
| 11 | ‘ Give me a child at seven , ’ he 'd mock , ‘ and I 'll fill its head with so much gibberish and superstition I 'll have it scared of its own shadow for the rest of its life . ’ |
| 12 | The Central Authority itself had to fix its own tariff for the bulk supply of electricity to the Boards and initially did well in reflecting costs by resisting pressure for ‘ postalisation ’ or charging a common national price . |
| 13 | The Parachute Regiment will retain one band with the merger of the Falkland and Pegasus Bands and the Army Air Corps will have its own band for the first time . |
| 14 | Originally , Blackpool supplied its own power for the tramway , originally from a generator at the back of the tram depot , and later from the Municipal power station at Shannon Street . |
| 15 | Somewhere , high in one of the elm trees , a lonely bird sang its own hymn for the dead . |
| 16 | Both Bills would have preserved the deprave-and-corrupt test , significant in itself , but would have added a new test , sufficient in its own right for the work to be deemed obscene . |