Example sentences of "it in its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth . |
| 2 | Kragan moved his hand over the butt of his revolver and loosened it in its holster . |
| 3 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 4 | This has many elements in common with ( b ) , in its emphasis on a whole social order , but it differs from it in its insistence that ‘ cultural practice ’ and ‘ cultural production ’ ( its most recognizable terms ) are not simply derived from an otherwise constituted social order but are themselves major elements in its constitution . |
| 5 | This will be maintained by the Committee to help it in its decision making . |
| 6 | Ibn Battuta was lucky enough to see it in its prime : |
| 7 | However , my regional director has worked closely with it in its efforts to bring together the public and private sector throughout Devon and Cornwall . |
| 8 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Riot guides and drug protests and minor jokes about policemen , ’ said a man in a mackintosh , standing up by the gas fire and talking fixedly about the broadsheet , eying it in its filing place . |
| 10 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
| 11 | When a record is added , this will involve storing it in its home address unless a home record is already in that address ; a synonym from some other address would have to be moved to make way for it . |
| 12 | Harry dipped the blade into the sea to wash it , and dried it on the cuff of his shirt before replacing it in its sheath . |
| 13 | Since we live on the crust , it is important to us in more ways than one , but we are only going to consider it in its relationship to events in the mantle , since these explain how Plate Tectonics works . |
| 14 | Central government knew this would happen but did not want to admit to it in its plans . |
| 15 | The fact that the spillovers are external benefits implies that the local authority responsible for such activity takes no account of it in its decision-making . |
| 16 | ‘ It did not catch my foot , for I was already wheeling away , but it crashed down on my wing and caught it in its grip . |
| 17 | It is the board which has the final responsibility for strategic plans and actions while the role of the corporate planning department is to advise and assist it in its decisions . |
| 18 | She replaced it in its case . |
| 19 | Pepsi hopes the monster ad will help it in its battle with Coca-Cola for the billion-dollar soft drinks market . |
| 20 | Once we finally identified the leaked document , we countered in the most conclusive way known in politics : we published it in its entirety . |
| 21 | You can either reproduce it in its entirety ; adapt and expand it to accommodate your impulse purchases ; or simply extract from it , to put into other planting schemes , the plants that take your fancy . |
| 22 | At Newport the troops would have taken an hour 's rest and then made in several extended columns for the northern shore of the island , to occupy it in its entirety . |
| 23 | When the new Clause was debated in the House of Commons on 5th December , Joan Ruddock was the only MP to attempt an amendment to delete it in its entirety . |
| 24 | I agree with it in its entirety and would , in the ordinary way , be content to do no more than express my concurrence both in the reasoning and in the result . |
| 25 | IN HIS gleeful excoriation of The British Academy of Cricket Manual for Gentlemen and Players in the January WCM , Mark Browning echoes the sentiments of your esteemed Editor , who called the book ‘ … the greatest , the most conspicuous and distinctly unrepeatable load of garbage ever dumped on the cluttered book-market ’ ( WCM Aug 1988 ) , and both reviewers queried the sanity of any reader curious or gullible enough to read it in its entirety . |
| 26 | The central-local relationship is dynamic and multi-dimensional , and no one model seems capable of portraying it in its entirety . |
| 27 | The specification was also very comprehensive , and the 1987 version added the significant message that heads and coordinators should select from and adapt the list rather than seek to implement it in its entirety . |
| 28 | Then we can look at it in its entirety , see the whole problem , and shape harmonies , rhythmic details , form , texture , etc. , into the best possible mould . |
| 29 | At the further confidential statement by Mr runs to four pages er , sorry , I 'm sorry , runs to four paragraphs and because of the insight into the plaintiff before the accident I will read it in its entirety . |
| 30 | The conditions were difficult , conceded It in its report of the night , ‘ yet the films went on . |