Example sentences of "it from its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On every return she has to find her burrow , distinguishing it from its surroundings . |
| 2 | If the bird keeps struggling , it will be clawed and bitten repeatedly by its captor , but if it lies still the cat may then make the mistake of putting it down on the ground and releasing it from its jaws . |
| 3 | This bat feeds on fruit and uses vision to guide it from its roost to the food . |
| 4 | He took it from its case and opened it . |
| 5 | She knelt and prised it from its bed . |
| 6 | Then followed a resolution naming the London committee ‘ The Veterinary College , London ’ , and separating it from its parent , the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 7 | She saw his eyes go to the coat fixture , and guessed that he knew the jacket hanging there belonged to Travis when he went and took it from its hanger . |
| 8 | By 1974 , the third Press Commission excluded it from its tables and statistics . |
| 9 | The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes . |
| 10 | In this chapter , we shall concentrate on those features of change and development which are particular to Wales and , in the process , endeavour to identify the characteristics of the organization and administration of Welsh further education which distinguish it from its counterpart in England . |
| 11 | None the less , there are some aspects to the present acid house craze which distinguish it from its predecessors and which need attention . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not just a burner , ’ Doc Threadneedle had told her as he unwrapped it from its tissue like a sugared almond . |
| 13 | Cut around the tile to be removed to separate it from its neighbours |
| 14 | Its grounds were small for so large a house , no more than two shrubberies dividing it from its neighbours , and at the rear a stretch of lawn with trees ran down to a fence . |
| 15 | The secure software company lost out on the US Navy 's Super Mini AFKAC 300 contract a few months ago after Planning Research Corp , the integrator and lead contractor , ‘ disinvited ’ it from its bid after teaming with Hewlett-Packard for the hardware , Sandone said . |
| 16 | The secure software company lost out on the US Navy 's Super Mini AFKAC 300 contract a few months ago after PRC , the integrator and lead contractor , ‘ disinvited ’ it from its bid after teaming with HP for the hardware , Sandone said . |
| 17 | Ball believes that PowerLan is particularly suited to users that want the option of growing their networks and interlinking them across different systems , and that these facilities will be enough to distinguish it from its competitors . |
| 18 | I made tea , my ungloved hand sticking to the Trangia when I tried to move it from its snowdrift . |
| 19 | She moved her arm behind her back , and the metal claw responded simultaneously , grasping the air line and plucking it from its housing in the back of the suit . |
| 20 | Slide it from its resting place on the left across to the right . |
| 21 | The other Rex put his hands to the long table-top , tore it from its legs and cast it away into the darkness . |
| 22 | It is sometimes argued that even if the sentences analysed in linguistics are abstractions , which sometimes sound very odd , they are still the best material for language study , because they isolate it from its context . |
| 23 | Some schools of linguistics have sought to understand language by isolating it from its context : something which is clearly impossible when we actually use language for communication . |
| 24 | Eagerly I set about to free it from its rubble prison . |
| 25 | The TBC 's drive for increased revenue from commercial sources in order to free it from its dependence on government raised serious questions about the role of broadcasting . |
| 26 | Sartre 's account thus sets up the articulation of history , univocal meaning , and totality as the indissoluble set of elements required for the validation of Marxism , necessary in order to save it from its detour from itself . |
| 27 | If all history attempts to conceptualize the event , to wean it from its finitude , then Foucault like many of his contemporaries is concerned to respect its singularity . |
| 28 | A second casualty was Nigel Theadom 's fancied ‘ Djinn Seng ’ from Haven Ports who developed an alarming bend in her mast , while Nick Holland-Brown blew out a spinnaker aboard the Dehler 38 ‘ Patriot ’ and in the resulting confusion took a gybe which wrapped the mainsheet around the binnacle and tore it from its setting . |
| 29 | Carole had left her photo-pass with Angela , who , taking it from its plastic cover , crossed out Carole 's name , substituting that of her husband . |
| 30 | We can define a system as an organised unitary whole composed of interdependent parts or sub-systems and with boundaries separating it from its environment and other systems . |