Example sentences of "it get its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BZW 's cheapest option — pulling out of Tokyo — is barely feasible , given that it got its TSE membership only last November after much huffing and puffing from Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister . |
| 2 | And it got its head trod in . |
| 3 | There will be a brief insight into the history of the company and how it got its name . |
| 4 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 5 | " I do n't know how it got its name , no , " replied the older boy smiling patiently , " but no doubt some book-reading bore is about to inform me . " |
| 6 | She could see where it got its name . |
| 7 | More than 120 copies were in the hands of various TV and broadcasting units by 4pm on Tuesday , the time The Sun says it got its copy . |
| 8 | But this will happen only if it gets its act together in the three areas of service provision , education , and research . |
| 9 | On reflection , the catering industry may well be much better off as a result of the Government 's proposals for a self-regulatory approach , but it all depends at the end of the day on how well it gets its act together , using Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment systems to identify the problem areas . |
| 10 | It gets its name from the very large , sail-like , first dorsal fin . |
| 11 | It gets its name from the strengthening threads which run across warp and weft to create small squares in the otherwise close-woven nylon . |
| 12 | It gets its name from being slammed against the bar-top and downed in one go . |
| 13 | It gets its name from the Silurian Epoch — a period around 450 million years ago when the rocks which make up the skeleton and the soil of the Grizedale Forest were formed . |
| 14 | It gets its name because of the one-time importance of the weaving industry in the area . |
| 15 | Its mile-long street , continuously built up along the side facing the loch from which it gets its name , has many shops , banks , garages , hotels and guest houses , patronised by customers from a wide area and by the touring motorists who pass through and invariably halt . |
| 16 | It gets its name from what you can see in the far distance , provided the weather is right , which is the first peaks of the real Pyrenees . |
| 17 | The hawthorn is the oldest of the hedgerow trees , for it gets its name from the Old English word haga , ‘ a hedge ’ or ‘ an enclosure ’ , and it was used from Saxon times onwards to make impenetrable fences — the hedge-thorn . |
| 18 | It gets its name from an analogy with a chain of firefighters passing buckets of water . |
| 19 | It gets its name from the letter M which originally was as wide as the type size . |
| 20 | It gets its name from the belief that such a flower could only come from the home of a god — Mt Parnassus . |
| 21 | It gets its name from the fact that it requires a fighter simply to raise his hands in a defensive position and bend his legs slightly , almost as if he were walking down the street . |
| 22 | It gets its description ‘ sensation of heat ’ simply from the causal conditions of its production . |
| 23 | To understand why damage to Broca 's area impairs speech we need to know both where it gets its input from and what it does to that input . |
| 24 | Because the typification is very inclusive , covering known criminals and people who look as if they might be , it gets its meaning partly from practical experience of people who typically commit crime in Easton , but also from prejudices that derive from middleclass notions of respectability . |
| 25 | It is high time that the Minister went to see Anglo-United and told it to get its act together and stop polluting the environment . |
| 26 | Where did it get its food ? |
| 27 | How does it get its information across . |