Example sentences of "it [verb] its [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it lowered its wings in threat posture , I took a last few shots before backing away , mindful of Valdemar 's account of the owl which left long , bloody furrows up the back of a photographer who pushed his luck too far ! |
| 2 | Sun is clearly demonstrating to Bill Gates some of the black arts on which the Unix industry has cut its teeth — more of which Microsoft can undoubtedly expect to face when it launches its Windows NT challenge . |
| 3 | Tel ( 021 ) 711 1343 ) has a code of practice for funeral directors which it encourages its members to display . |
| 4 | It encourages its employees to do the same on an individual basis . |
| 5 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 6 | However closely it cultivated its links with the labour movement , the UDC was not simply a device for maintaining Labour politics during the wartime political truce or for bringing individual ex-Liberals into the labour movement . |
| 7 | Duran reckons that the Institute adds value to Microsoft 's business because it receives its products first and understands its philosophy and strategy best . |
| 8 | Early in December it channelled its supporters ' energies into a mass petition calling for the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Northern Ireland , obtaining the signatures of nearly half the population of the city . |
| 9 | To suggest that the board was cowering timorously before the Government is ludicrous and pays no tribute or attention to its good work and to the robust way in which it represents its interests and those of the industry . |
| 10 | It stows its towels . |
| 11 | A slow down in the bathroom business — identified by MB when it announced its results last week — affected City confidence in Caradon . |
| 12 | The Ecology Building Society argues that it is recreating the original grass-roots feel of a membership-owned mutual society , and says that it involves its members closely in the development of new savings accounts . |
| 13 | As is often the case with such surveys , no clear consensus emerged over many of the questions and some apparently contradictory points were made ( ‘ Not enough homework ’ ; ‘ too heavy a coursework load ’ ) but the whole exercise must have yielded useful information for teachers and a welcome awareness among parents that here is an open school much concerned about the quality of experience it offers its students and responsive to the views of all partners in the education service . |
| 14 | There were entire countries , reigns , religions , philosophical systems , centuries , species and schools of art contained in its files , which had been of no interest whatsoever to the human race since it emptied its records , museums and libraries into their Al dump bin . |
| 15 | Penal control , on the other hand , ‘ prohibits certain conduct , and it enforces its prohibitions with punishment ’ . |
| 16 | It took two years for the Bureau of the Census to draw up the list of 106m households to which , on March 23rd , it posted its questionnaires . |
| 17 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 18 | As things stood when he became minister , the empire created wholly new regiments and divisions when it expanded its forces in wartime . |
| 19 | An MEP has made the point that the Parliament has simply not put down enough roots for it to be realistic to expect it to increase its powers . |
| 20 | Sema Group Plc has reported its best year-end figures since the merger between CAP Group Plc and Sema Metra SA in 1988 ( CI No 942 ) because , it claims , unlike its competitors , it focusses its systems integration skills on contracts that have a high level of technical content . |
| 21 | It publicises its objectives frankly and honestly . |
| 22 | Now a professional football club playing in the 4th Division of the English football league , it owes its origins to a team formed by the pupils and staff of the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 23 | So it bared its fangs and charged . |
| 24 | Things were just a touch grim at the Shakespeare School before it occluded its portals for the vacation . |
| 25 | The national state , as it took shape in Western Europe , controlled a well-defined , continuous territory ; it was relatively centralized ; it was clearly differentiated from other organizations ; and it reinforced its claims by gradually acquiring a monopoly of the means of physical coercion within its territory . |
| 26 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 27 | No matter how good a book is it has its faults , and these give the reviewer the chance to display his knowledge . |
| 28 | It has its predecessors in the romantic tradition — a tradition which includes the self-important single self nevertheless prone to dispersal and division , invasion and impersonation , which includes the victim and his alter ego . |
| 29 | But life has its storms , it has its tempests , and some of them are a lot fiercer than others . |
| 30 | A further distinguishing feature of the Duval-Leroy is the way in which it has its feet firmly planted in the vineyards rather than in the cities of Reims or Épernay . |