Example sentences of "its own [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code . |
| 2 | Each clause will have its own theme-rheme structure which may be subordinate to a larger theme-rheme structure . |
| 3 | Billig ( 1987a ) suggests that common sense also possesses its own contradictory themes . |
| 4 | It may be , for example , that the attribution of inventory numbers follows not one but many forms , each with its own idiosyncratic syntax . |
| 5 | International comparisons of unemployment rates are as notoriously difficult as measures of income distribution , and the Labour Ministry in Japan , as in other countries , has its own idiosyncratic style of creative statistical construction . |
| 6 | His dog scoured ahead , sniffing at crumbling turds and chasing its own mangy shadow . |
| 7 | To it , God can only utter the dreadful ‘ No ’ which abandons sin to the nothingness that is its own real nature . |
| 8 | At the end of 1944 the goal posts once again replaced bean poles and ‘ The Tip ’ staged its own international fixture when a combined German and Italian team from the nearby POW camp took on the ‘ Whads ’ , who for this match played under the name of England . |
| 9 | Although the member States had created the Council , once established it became a separate entity with its own international executive . |
| 10 | It has developed its own operating systems ( the basic software on which the firm 's machines run ) and its own international marketing organisation , with an emphasis on personal computers . |
| 11 | Fenner , the Hull-based power transmission engineer , bought the stake when the original bid was announced and had offered to act as white knight to Armstrong and to distribute their fasteners through its own international network . |
| 12 | Ukraine planned to introduce its own circulating coupons for food and essential goods purchases if Russia failed to deliver extra roubles to safeguard Ukraine against the freeing of consumer prices in Russia from Jan. 2 ( a measure already delayed by two weeks ) . |
| 13 | At that time Orkney did not have its own full-time Procurator Fiscal . |
| 14 | In order to do this ESCA divides the country into 16 regions which each runs its own mini tournament . |
| 15 | Set in its own 27-hole parkland , enjoy the largest purpose-built golf centre in South Wales . |
| 16 | Thus the Labour Party became a battleground for its own warring factions . |
| 17 | The Times said The Independent 's move was ‘ absurd ’ and undermined by its own declared circulation figures since the price cut . |
| 18 | The Cambridge has an ideal location beside its own reserved section of sandy beach , close to the lively centre of Lido di Jesolo . |
| 19 | France also stipulates its own additional criteria for the payments . |
| 20 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 21 | Indeed , there are many studies of primitive communities which not only claim that this possibility is realized but depict in detail the life of a society where the only means of social control is that general attitude of the group towards its own standard modes of behaviour in terms of which we have characterized rules of obligation … |
| 22 | Every self-respecting ideology develops its own complex defence mechanisms which cunningly conceal , or paper over , the glaring discrepancies and inconsistences which inevitably arise between what ought to happen and what actually does . |
| 23 | A carp is quite happy on a high protein diet because it utilises some for tissue repair , construction of its own complex molecules such as enzymes and of course growth by addition of new body protein . |
| 24 | The primordial deity , Nun , advised Re to use his powerful Eye , the sun itself and possessor of its own complex mythology , to exact vengeance on the evildoers , and furthermore to send the Eye in the person of Hathor . |
| 25 | Israel presents a bill-cum-claim for £13 billion ; the Turks have already been more than vigilant and need recompense ; Egypt is already forgiven its £7 billion arms debt but needs more ; Syria has had its funds unblocked by the EC ; the US is getting its war subsidies ; the Soviet Union is tied by its need for help ; the air is thick with pay-offs and promises , massive promises every one of which has its own complex politics contradicting most or all of the others . |
| 26 | The Infrared Astronomy Satellite ( IRAS ) overcomes some of these problems by carrying a telescope high above Earth 's atmosphere , complete with its own complex cooling , system ( New Scientist , 27 January , p 226 ) . |
| 27 | Each of these services had a separate department with its own chief officer . |
| 28 | By the end of my stay in health , I had become convinced that it would be possible to create a health commission with its own chief executive or chairman . |
| 29 | Israel was eventually persuaded to withdraw its tanks to new , secure positions , well back from the Sinai , thus allowing Egypt to achieve some part of its principal aims — on condition that Egypt , for its part , formally recognized the State of Israel and respected the new border , thus allowing Israel to secure some part of its own principal aims . |
| 30 | Apart from the paperwork and delays incurred on both sides of the bridge , exporters found themselves exposed to political pressures and a declining market , as Jordan developed its own agricultural potential on the east side of the Jordan valley . |