Example sentences of "it [vb -s] its [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is a general feature of the education system that both through its programmed and ‘ hidden ’ curricula it plays its part in the socialisation of the individual and in social reproduction . |
2 | And the place is not simply the background or backdrop against which the action occurs ; it plays its part in the drama . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | This is the question the St John Ambulance brigade is asking as it launches its Breath of Life campaign . |
5 | Tel ( 021 ) 711 1343 ) has a code of practice for funeral directors which it encourages its members to display . |
6 | It encourages its employees to do the same on an individual basis . |
7 | It rears its head in Eastern Europe , in North America and in Western Europe . |
8 | It turns its attention to the Isle of Wight Regatta . |
9 | Deconstruction is the form it takes when it turns its attention to specific texts . |
10 | The same report also , when it turns its attention to taking stock , extends itself to pupils . |
11 | the English working class … can never do anything decisive here in England until it separates its policy with regard to Ireland in the most definite way from the policy of the ruling class , until it not only makes common cause with the Irish , but actually takes the initiative in dissolving the Union established in 1801 , and replacing it by a federal relationship . |
12 | It points its finger at the odious hypocrisies of AIDS-sufferer Roy Cohn , one of Senator McCarthy 's henchmen . |
13 | If this government channelled its resources against employers who disregard the health and safety legislation as much as it channels its energy at the trade unions through the Employment Act I 'm sure we would see a great decrease in accidents and |
14 | It understands its importance in relation to character and morale , to the standard of values and behaviour . ’ |
15 | It receives its funding via an agreement signed in the 1920's , from the All England Club , which runs the most successful international tennis tournament in the world . |
16 | Duran reckons that the Institute adds value to Microsoft 's business because it receives its products first and understands its philosophy and strategy best . |
17 | France Telecom said Spheris will be completed by the end of this year , when it receives its Minitel and Unix workstation functions and integrates the latest specifications , X.400-88 and X.500 . |
18 | But , as it digests its food , the House Dust Mite produces potent allergens in its alimentary canal , which are released in its faecal pellets . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | It stows its towels . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Eventually , it drives its load forward . |
24 | Penal control , on the other hand , ‘ prohibits certain conduct , and it enforces its prohibitions with punishment ’ . |
25 | The basic idea is that the quicker it produces its report the better . |
26 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
27 | It builds its nest entirely from air-borne material such as cotton , plant fibres , hairs and feathers . |
28 | Watch your spider as it builds its web . |
29 | It accepts its responsibility . |
30 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |