Example sentences of "its [adj] and [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was agreed that the JNA would call off its alert and Croatia 's specijalci would be demobilized ( but not disbanded ) . |
| 2 | The development of the Clos des Galées at Rouen , under the patronage of the French crown ( notably in the reign of Charles V ) , is matched by the steps taken by Henry V to develop a royal shipyard at Southampton , so much better positioned than the traditional one at the Tower of London , and by the appointment of royal officers to supervise its working and administration . |
| 3 | The history of the English language is considered , especially in its regional and dialect forms . |
| 4 | Then he looked up and said , ‘ Celia , you do n't want to remain at Brentwoods for ever , do you , to have our child turn to some third party for its emotional and creature comforts , to get the odd pat on the head from a parent at six o'clock of an evening ? |
| 5 | Some relate to its administrative and policy models , which derive from Britain but are here applied to a Chinese population . |
| 6 | Brazil has a heavy burden of international debt , which is a major contributor to its economic and health problems , but wealth is also characterised by striking internal divisions . |
| 7 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |
| 8 | Modernization of the legal system of Ceylon is a necessity for the smooth running of its commercial and banking machineries . ’ |
| 9 | Balcerowicz announced at a meeting of the Interim Committee of the IMF Bank on May 8 , 1990 , that Poland would seek a new agreement with its commercial and government creditors to cut Poland 's debt-servicing obligations by 80 per cent . |
| 10 | Pakistan only came into existence as an independent country shortly after the end of the Second World War and consequently shares much of its cultural and rug-making heritage with India . |
| 11 | Planning Control as now known in the United Kingdom is often thought to have started with the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 and its Scottish and Northern Ireland equivalents . |
| 12 | In an interview with the Financial Times of May 8 , Attila Karaosmanoglu , the World Bank 's vice-president for Asia , said that Western donors had started to raise short-term funds to help India overcome its fiscal and balance-of-payments crisis . |
| 13 | It is the duty of the community to provide through its social and welfare services the advice and support which such parents and children need … such help should always be directed towards building up the responsibility of the parents whenever this is at all possible ( Home Office , 1960 ) . |
| 14 | It should be noted that the recognition of the effect of childbearing patterns on the health of women and children can be utilized not only by individuals or couples but also by organizations and authorities dealing with health and family welfare or development policies , including its social and population aspects . |
| 15 | Paper Tiger is spending some £10,000 on a promotion for its graphic and fantasy art list in April . |
| 16 | Michael White of the Guardian likened Amaranth to Venus rising from the foam , Bruce Anderson to the spirit of enterprise , while Lord Wyatt of Weeford , who had been sent to Brighton for the Telegraph , wrote that he had been ‘ captivated ’ by a performance which by its daring and originality had brought an otherwise dull Tory conference startlingly to life . |
| 17 | The odd flattened bill is also richly endowed with touch receptors , and the platypus seems to use its electric and touch senses together when searching for food . |
| 18 | It was Maria Luigia who commissioned the building of the Teatro Regio , with its white and gold and red plush interior , and appointed Paganini , who had lived in Parma since the age of twelve , to be one of the directors of her orchestra , at that time the finest in all Italy . |
| 19 | Then on to the spacious dining saloon with its white and gold decor , now alive with the movement of gold-braided , be-medalled uniforms alongside glamorous ladies in evening dress . |
| 20 | Such personal comments can however not be taken up in a professional staff support group , being outside its brief and scope which differ from those of a personal therapy group . |
| 21 | You can sit where you like as long as it is n't in this chair , this armchair , my armchair , the one with the dancing balls splattered loudly across its back and arms , across its stained and silver gut . |
| 22 | Condition : ‘ The types and quantities of waste accepted at the site shall not exceed the limits of its operational and storage capacity ’ . |
| 23 | The essential feature of the judicial process which makes it unsuitable to deal with polycentric problems is its bipolar and adversary nature . |
| 24 | Shares in Grampian , which recently failed in its bid for chemist group Macarthy , fell 9 to 163p yesterday after it announced a 15 p.c. drop in pre-tax profit to £11.2m in a tough year for its retail and sports goods activities . |
| 25 | Its sees its involvement with Eo as in keeping with its strategy of strengthening its technological and product base through strategic alliances , and as complementary to its other activities in what it calls the ‘ the new telecom world ’ . |
| 26 | Ocean needs to keep plugging away , expanding its environmental and distribution interests to really get the City to sit up and take notice . |
| 27 | In the mid-1980s Glaxo put all its generic and vaccine businesses into Evans , including a former A. H. Robins site at Horsham , and subsequently allowed the management to negotiate a buyout . |
| 28 | The conclusion then is that the greater the volume of NBFI activity , the greater the range of products , the more substitutes will exist for money in its precautionary and asset roles . |
| 29 | In its legislative and scrutiny activities , Westminster is one of the most active in Europe , sitting for far longer than most other assemblies . |
| 30 | Four days later the Military Council , which had ruled in Georgia since the flight of Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January [ see pp. 38731-32 ] , transferred its legislative and executive powers to a newly created State Council of which Shevardnadze was to be the chair . |