Example sentences of "in its [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smiled , a smile that was neither gloating nor excited , but almost inhuman in its utter coldness . |
| 2 | Another recommendation of the Commission was for increased funding for adult education and with gradual increases in its budgetary provision , the Board in 1931 was able to appoint three full-time lectures : Lee in Northamptonshire , Baker in Cambridgeshire and Hardman for university extension local lectures . |
| 3 | This proved impossible : the fist was too tightly clenched in its terminal seizure . |
| 4 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 5 | Listen to the doubts of ingratitude in its terminal stage . |
| 6 | Some of the features of alcoholism in its terminal phase are so well known that a cartoonist has only to draw a couple of lines for everyone to know that the subject is a " drunk " . |
| 7 | The scene is Orwellian , too , not just in its suburban setting but in its prevailing emphasis on a pained sense of demeaning social inferiority and skimping poverty . |
| 8 | A significant element in its declared purpose was the better exchange of ideas between librarians and commercial producers , particularly because the commercial production of audio-visual teaching media accounts for a large proportion of programmes . |
| 9 | The present of one level is , so to speak , the absence of another , and this co-existence of a ‘ presence ’ and absences is simply the effect of the structure of the whole in its articulated decentricity . |
| 10 | Sambrook , on the other hand , sees greater efficacy in Goldsmith 's protest ; he suggests that this poet ‘ established the myth of rural catastrophe in its familiar form ’ and thus contributed to the development of English Utopianism among writers from Wollstonecraft to Ruskin who project a countryside humanized by fit housing and land reform . |
| 11 | Before the war grammar schools were distinguished by their academic curriculum , by the existence of sixth forms , from which there could be progress to university , and by the academic qualifications of the teachers ; and so , after 1944 , it was taken for granted that the grammar school ideal must be preserved in its familiar form . |
| 12 | The Alkali and Clean Air Inspectorate spelt out its wobbly rationale for taking no action in its 1981 Report , saying that its powers were ‘ intended to protect the population and environment of England and Wales ’ , so ‘ it is unlikely that action could be taken under the legislation solely to protect the environment of other countries . ’ |
| 13 | Spot checks on any consumer 's use of electricity would also be possible ; and as the Electricity Council 's Energy Management Task Force said in its 1981 report : ‘ the remoteness and automation of the meter reading process has ‘ Big Brother ’ overtones . ’ |
| 14 | At this point it is in its critical state . |
| 15 | Cuban objections to TV Martí focused upon the violation of national sovereignty involved in its illegal use of the frequency of an established Cuban television station in contravention of the ITU code and other international agreements . |
| 16 | Can you advise me on how I could repair a chip in its outer rim ? |
| 17 | Sweden has gone anti-nuclear in its power-generating policy and consequently vast hydro-power stations have been built in the northern lake areas for reasons better known to themselves , the Swedes made no provision for salmon runs so the huge lakes are now devoid of fish and the Lapps have left . |
| 18 | It seems extraordinary that , given the political fervour of the Paris-based SI fraction in its post-Lettrist phase , the exhibition should have been so solemnly organised with little regard to Debord 's caveat on auteurism and his contempt for the art market . |
| 19 | Most Marxist thinkers , beginning with Marx and Engels themselves , have been inclined to relegate nationalism to a position of minor importance by comparison with class struggles ; to dismiss it ( as did Rosa Luxemburg in her statements on the Polish independence movement ) as a refuge of the petty bourgeoisie , which would lose its political significance with the growth of the socialist movement ; to connect it particularly with the development of capitalism in its imperialist stage ; or , finally , to attribute a limited value to national struggles against imperialism , as an adjunct of the fundamental conflict between the working class and the bourgeoisie . |
| 20 | All life , he claims , strives in its forward movement to return to the quiescence from which it arose , a state it achieves finally in death . |
| 21 | It was fresh and almost severe in its classic simplicity , comparable to Bourges and Coutances Cathedrals in France . |
| 22 | A theory which , in its classic form , gives a pretty positive answer to at least the first two of these questions is utilitarianism . |
| 23 | The series serves relentlessly to interrogate the concept of the portrait in its classic form as the portrait bust . |
| 24 | The truth is that the social sciences reflected the pre-conceptions and problems of bourgeois liberalism in its classic form , which was not found in Germany , where bourgeois society inserted itself into the Bismarckian framework of aristocrats and bureaucrats . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Despite the interchangeability of gallery spaces , anchoring the materiality of the installation in its specific site troubles unthinking acceptance of the virtual spaces of the video monitor ( the ideal simulacrum ) , the internal space of video sculpture as hyperreal , and image space after the demise of the camera as core image-generator . |
| 27 | The first method — each bell unique but each ringing everywhere — means that the ‘ message ’ of the bell lies in its specific sound ; in the second , the message lies not in the bell , but in the way it is wired up . |
| 28 | Secondly , this structure shows a number of interesting departures from the canonical B form which may well be involved in its specific recognition . |
| 29 | ( ‘ French science in its grandest fashion ’ , remarked Watson later , adding that the audience should not believe what some ‘ worse than third-rate authors ’ had written elsewhere . ) |
| 30 | In its botanical sense tundra is a working abbreviation for arctic tundra vegetation , the tough , low-lying vegetation that typifies the arctic treeless area . |