Example sentences of "and its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the most spectacular section of the Dee , its steep confining walls fringed by dense woodlands and its rocky bed much too rough for the passage of walkers not addicted to hard labour and who have respect for their clothes . |
| 2 | Its steep sides are thronged with Goblin strongholds and its rocky slopes overlay caves and tunnels that are riddled with evil creatures . |
| 3 | An important theme of empirical and theoretical work on contemporary social structure is that of social differentiation , and its spatial aspects . |
| 4 | Worse , by stripping Germany of much of its industrial wealth , its merchant fleet and its colonial possessions ; and by resurrecting Poland , and making inroads into the German sense of security over Danzig and the Polish Corridor , they gave further cause for grievance and hardened the most unpleasant facets of the German identity fostered by the marcher lands . |
| 5 | Only in nature and by a return to the land — in song , symbolism , in hiking and comradeship around the campfire — can we find that true alternative to the meaninglessness of modern life and its grasping materialism . |
| 6 | In following chapters we discuss the criticisms levelled at the rational expectations — simple natural rate model and its empirical relevance . |
| 7 | This , then , is not a static but a dynamic view of early English prosodies ; its theoretical breadth and scope is wide , and its empirical procedures sound ; it is innovative and challenging ; and it also forms a vital teaching text . |
| 8 | Key recommendations included ( i ) the establishment of an expanded National Peace Committee ( NPC ) with permanent local and regional offices which would replace dispute resolution committees ; ( ii ) the stationing of 30 UN observers who would serve with the NPC and would draw on the experience of the UN team which monitored the mass action campaign ; ( iii ) the provision of UN assistance to the Goldstone Commission for full-scale inquiries into the South African Defence Force ( SADF ) , the South African Police ( SAP ) and the Kwazulu Police as well as the armed wing of the ANC , Umkhonto we Sizwe , and its Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) and Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) equivalents ; the Commission 's findings , hitherto presented to the government , would be released to the multiparty NPC ; ( iv ) UN reassessment of its role every three months ; ( v ) the resumption of constitutional negotiations as soon as possible with the establishment of a " deadlock-breaking " mechanism ; ( v ) the appointment of " an eminent and impartial person " to convene the talks ; ( vi ) the urgent release of political prisoners ; and ( vii ) an end to the bias of the state broadcasting services . |
| 9 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , would have included in the present s14(2) of SGA 1979 and its equivalent provisions under SOGIT 1973 ( as substituted by Sched 4 to CCA 1974 ) and the SGSA 1982 , the following provision which is worth setting out in full since it received Government approval and is likely to be re-introduced in the near future : ( 2A ) For the purposes of this Act , goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory , taking account of any description of the goods , the price ( if relevant ) and all the other relevant circumstances . |
| 10 | The resources of the AIB and its equivalent organisations throughout the world are necessarily limited for reasons of economy , and the person in charge has to deploy his forces in the most effective manner he can devise while at the same time always keeping enough reserves in hand in case of a major catastrophe . |
| 11 | The Moon 's mass is 0.01230 M E and its mean radius is 1737 km . |
| 12 | But by 1890 the competition imposed on the world by Britain and its nearest rivals in north-western Europe had returned a hundredfold , and there no longer seemed a possibility of escape : if the British did not colonize , others would , and at British expense . |
| 13 | The Golf GTi and its nearest rival . |
| 14 | These concepts are utilised in the Procedure Audit process to determine measures of success from a specified point of view , as agreed by the person responsible for the procedure and its continued existence , which in practical terms is generally the person who can authorise changes to be made . |
| 15 | Database watchers believe SAG 's time is running out and its continued existence depends upon its ability to deliver specifications this summer . |
| 16 | Cypress ' Sparc ‘ sunsidiary ’ Ross Technology shipped only about $3.9m worth of product last quarter and its continued existence should Sun not opt for the HyperSparc is in doubt . |
| 17 | Database watchers believe the SQL Access Group 's time is running out and its continued existence depends on its ability to deliver specifications this summer . |
| 18 | IBM Corp 's top management faces the biggest threat yet to its strategy and its continued incumbency atop the beached whale . |
| 19 | The inconsistency between the broad appeal of the Popular Front and its continued use as a tactic for ultimate Communist control is the central theme in the discussions which occupied the next four years . |
| 20 | Such optimism may still prove to be justified : but the bets are much riskier , now that China 's leadership has shown its continued reliance on the mailed fist and its continued vulnerability to factional disputes . |
| 21 | In 1914 Emmanuel Ginschel , echoing the Haketa line on the legitimacy of the Prussian partition of Poland and its continued control of its share of old Polish territory , wrote : |
| 22 | Given Cadbury 's peerless reputation for research and development , and its continued commitment to high levels of marketing support , which in Time Out 's case includes a £5m advertising blitz through GGT , few can doubt that the company 's £35 sales target for the brand will be achieved . |
| 23 | The broadcasters were able to enliven their reports by incorporating actuality clips from the Chamber in about one-third of their parliamentary news stories , and these clips averaged between 25 and 77 seconds in duration , depending on the programme , which usually comprised about a quarter of the story ( exceptionally , BBC2 's Newsnight had longer stories , averaging eight minutes , and its average actuality length of 49.5 seconds comprised only 10% of these items ) . |
| 24 | Stratus ' endorsement further bolsters the credibility of Precision Architecture and its 7100 iteration , which Stratus will probably be using . |
| 25 | In addition Minton was attracted by the colours of Morocco and its rampant homosexuality . |
| 26 | On the one hand , the referendum was acclaimed as " a magnificent act without equal in the … history of the most worthily-titled democracies " , because it had offered the people the opportunity to limit the power of " the National Government and its eminent leadership " . |
| 27 | The JB Tele is a simple merger of Tele and Strat features and the only obvious elements of James Burton-ness about it are the Paisley finish and its eminent suitability for recording studio work . |
| 28 | In East Africa , where HIV virus infection and its resultant disease of AIDS is a medical serious problem , the context of its transmission is an increasingly urgent issue for investigation . |
| 29 | Discretion may have tended to appear the better part of valour , and certainly better than defeat and its resultant loss of prestige . |
| 30 | Both these objectives suffer from the same constraints — the uncompetitive nature of railfreight charges compared with road haulage , other than trainload freight , and the lack of private sidings in Britain on anything like the scale in France or Germany thus requiring intermodal handling and its resultant costs . |