Example sentences of "its [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way I passed the rabbit I thought had escaped , lying just before the sparkling clean water of the stream ; blackened and contorted , locked into a weird , twisted crouch , its dead dry eyes staring up at me as I passed by , accusatory . |
| 2 | The plain stretches all the way to Lake Natron which lies sunk below the hills , with its dead still ether water and its atolls of flamingos . |
| 3 | The ‘ Reactivate ’ series maintains its remarkably high standard of Techno tracks , offering GTO 's perfectly stupid ‘ Elevation ’ , Tox Two 's unstoppable ( unless you turn the power off , of course ) ‘ Rave Generator ’ and the almost legendary Prage Khan 's ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ . |
| 4 | … no doubt extraordinary pains were taken to preserve both form and feature ; and yet , what a wretched mockery of a once lovely woman it now appears , with its shrunken and rotten-looking bust , its hideous , mahogany-coloured face , and its remarkably fine set of teeth . |
| 5 | He is delighted and yesterday said : ‘ This is extremely good news because it is imperative that the cathedral has the ability to maintain its justifiably high standard of music , and a new organ is badly needed as the existing one is now beyond repair . ’ |
| 6 | If BR could not make a case for seven trains for one of its most profitable routes , it was clear that plans for a second tranche of HSTs for the Cross Country group of services would not satisfy the new criteria . |
| 7 | Privately owned land tends to move to its most profitable use but frequently obstacles , either physical or human , delay such movements , particularly where it is necessary to assemble adjacent parcels of land to form a viable development site . |
| 8 | The move follows the group 's decision to concentrate on its most profitable business , mineral water , which it says is expanding ‘ dramatically ’ throughout the world . |
| 9 | It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order . |
| 10 | It is quite possible for a company to show a trading profit on its normal operations over a year and to cap this by receiving an enquiry for its most profitable product many times greater than any previous order . |
| 11 | The local store is rumoured to be considering Sunday closing after the loss of its most loyal customer ! |
| 12 | The CGT was rapidly losing control of even its most loyal factories . |
| 13 | The third and final volume is devoted to quantum theory and there he tells us that its first chapter will tackle the basic element of the mysterious behaviour in its most strange form . |
| 14 | Whatever may be our private feelings about the modern scholarship on Posidonius , one of its most durable results is the reconstruction of Posidonius ' chapters on the Celts . |
| 15 | In the serrania ( the mountain districts ) there were large areas of poor pasture or small holdings and it was in these regions rather than on the great estates that Anarchism was later to find its most fanatical adherents . |
| 16 | singled out by the Decree of an Inscrutable Providence from the midst of the Distinguished Multitude that Surrounded him , in the full pride of his Talents and the Perfection of his Usefulness , met with the Accident that Occasioned his Death ; which deprived England of an Illustrious Statesman and Liverpool of its Most Honoured Representative ; which changed a moment of the Noblest Exultation and Triumph that Science and Genius had ever achieved into one of Desolation and Mourning , and striking Terror into the Hearts of Assembled Thousands brought home into every Bosom the Forgotten Truth that ‘ In the Midst of Life we are in Death ’ . |
| 17 | Hawke 's squadron , 28 strong , now bore down upon the French from windward at top speed , all sails set , and around 2.30 in the afternoon the eight warships in the van opened fire on the French rear division , the start of a fierce engagement which caused its most powerful unit , the 80-gun Formidable , to surrender , and three 74-gun warships , the Héros , the Superbe and the Thesée to founder . |
| 18 | Lacking any military forces of its own , the UN is pathetically dependent on the goodwill of its most powerful members . |
| 19 | One of its most powerful adversaries is Fredric Jameson who suggests postmodernism is ‘ an alarming and pathological symptom of a society that has become incapable of dealing with time and history ’ ( in Foster 1983 : 117 ) . |
| 20 | Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 21 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 22 | Possibly its most endearing feature is that all the control is executed from the Macintosh , the PC can be connected locally or over a telephone line with modems and , apart from being started up , needs no attention . |
| 23 | Our impression over a two week jaunt round the Republic was of a country shedding the shackles of its tortured past without sacrificing its most endearing features . |
| 24 | It was also in the Celtic countries that Romanization celebrated its most truculent triumph . |
| 25 | Its most comprehensive statement of aims , theory , and practical guide-lines is given by J. Richard Hackman and Geoff R. Oldham in their book Work Redesign ( Hackman and Oldham 1980 ) . |
| 26 | It can be no more tolerable than one of its most specific forms , behaviourism in psychology . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So just at the time when that first vital relationship between parent and child is in its most tenuous stages ‘ external tensions and difficulties are most likely to take their toll and may cause the baby to become fractious and the parent to be over-tired and irritable . |
| 29 | The Labour Party gains its most consistent successes in London and the other major cities . |
| 30 | The Legend imprint is relaunched this month ; its most consistent author David Gemmell , leads the way with Waylander II ( £4.99 ) and Druss the Legend ( £14.99 ) . |