Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sense of self-doubt also had some part in convincing Conservative leaders that neither Britain nor western society could survive another trauma of the seriousness of the First World War and thus , for the only time in history , the party abandoned its usual reliance on strong defences and the balance of power in Europe , adopting a policy towards Nazi Germany known as appeasement . |
| 2 | Where government takes the form of absolute power ‘ the one who controls it appears to the people as a divinity … this religiosity can not fail to have its usual effects on punishment ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 305 ) , making punishment more severe than one would expect for a society of the same level of development but a less absolute government . |
| 3 | I admit , I was quaking with fright and this had its usual effect on Old Shallot : weak legs , wobbly belly , heaving chest and total panic . |
| 4 | 135 for 3 became 138 for 6 and the writing was in its usual place on the wall . |
| 5 | Along the inferior border of the mandible may be seen the roseate shaped groups of grooves that occur when the rodent anchors its lower jaw on one side of the mandible and pivots against this with its upper jaw to produce a series of grooves converging downwards to a single point . |
| 6 | In contrast to such ‘ an increasing grammatization of discursive and textual operations ’ , analysts such as De Lauretis ( 1984 , p. 45 ) want instead to examine how cinema produces its specific effects on spectators through what is specific to images . |
| 7 | If Docherty 's dismissal from the manager 's job at Manchester United had unspoken religious undertones , it had its greatest impact on a close-knit catholic family back home in Glasgow . |
| 8 | Even in 1970–71 London 's net loss of population was skewed towards non-manual workers and owner-occupiers , but the subsequent reduction in the scale of movement had its greatest effect on the proportion of public-sector tenants and of lower-income sections of the labour force , both manual and non-manual . |
| 9 | The scene is Orwellian , too , not just in its suburban setting but in its prevailing emphasis on a pained sense of demeaning social inferiority and skimping poverty . |
| 10 | To deal with it and to prevent its persistent effects on children , doctors and nurses need more training to develop their psychological awareness and their counselling skills . |
| 11 | The dichotomy between appearance and reality , the continuity of metaphors for usurpation applied to Macbeth , the incredible number of antitheses ( some 400 odd ) : these are aspects of the play that have been well studied in modern criticism , and all show its persistent operation on two linguistic levels . |
| 12 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 13 | The ileal crypt cell basolateral membrane contains two Na + dependent mechanisms for HCO 3 - accumulation ( Na + -HCO 3 - co-transport and Na + /H + exchange , the latter accumulating HCO 3 - indirectly via its alkalinising effect on the cell . |
| 14 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 15 | Nor was she in the gaming room with its low lights on green baize tables , circles of hands restless with chips , cards , cigarettes , while the tension adjusted itself with each soft call of the croupiers . |
| 16 | The most notable feature of the UK tax system appears to be its low reliance on social security taxes for state pension and unemployment provisions . |
| 17 | Energetically , he found , walking is analogous to a pendulum which falls , gaining speed from gravity , and rided up past its low point on the gained kinetic energy . |
| 18 | Gel maintains its strong hold on styling as one of the essential hair products for men . |
| 19 | The English used it as a convenient base for raids into the Scots East and Middle Marches , and as a permanent threat , its strong position on the rocky spine at the junction of the two rivers making it a very difficult nut to crack . |
| 20 | While the Torbay service was unusual in its strong emphasis on mental health centres and movement away from residential centred provision , Exeter DHA adopted a more cautious attitude in the development of local services . |
| 21 | Boots , after its strong run on Thursday , ran into the inevitable profit taking , falling 6p to 288p . |
| 22 | On the other hand , one of the consequences of advertising finance was its strong impact on media contents . |
| 23 | The immediate constituents of an item are its largest constituents on a given level ; any other constituent is a mediate constituent of the item . |
| 24 | Yet , as I pointed out above , it is the origin and causes of these circumstances which really need to be explained — not to mention other , non-individualistic phenomena like religion and cultural tradition which this approach , with its narrow focus on childhood conditioning , usually quite ignores . |
| 25 | The block is shaped rather like a slice of cake , with its narrow point on Seven Dials and the two sides radiating outwards . |
| 26 | Fanon is surely right to stress the sexual component of racism , especially its destructive effects on ( hetero ) sexual relations across race . |
| 27 | At the initiative of the non-aligned countries , the Assembly held a special session from Dec. 12-14 on apartheid and its destructive effects on Southern Africa . |
| 28 | Its 1986 report on community care , for example , criticized not only under-funding but the pattern of organizational fragmentation and confusion that began in central departments and worked its way down . |
| 29 | Polymorphism clustering in the T-cell epitopes of the CSP generated debate about the origin and maintenance of this variation and raised concerns about its possible influence on vaccine efficacy . |
| 30 | Mucosal prostaglandin E 2 is raised in ulcerative colitis , and its possible influence on colonic permeability is not known . |