Example sentences of "it [vb -s] its [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Not only does the rhythm fit with what the poet is saying , it plays its own central part in creating the mood and meaning of the poem .
2 However , the company plans to buy shelf space in the New Year , when it launches its new title , House Beautiful , as a monthly magazine .
3 The court ruling comes at a sensitive time for the Japanese government , which is claiming a lead role in environmental affairs , and has strenuously denied that it encourages its hazardous industries to relocate to third world countries .
4 It forbids its own purity .
5 This is illustrated in Fig. 1 where a household , which at first is paid an income of £100 per week , is assumed to spend all of its income in a steady stream until , at the end of each week , it has nothing left until it receives its next £100 .
6 In some ways it represents its worst dehumanising features — the reduction of meaningful human action to a kind of technical fault ( based on the medical analogy ) to be cured by applied technology .
7 Conversely , when a cameo works , it imposes its own dynamics on the film .
8 There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts .
9 It 's like the sound a child makes when it confronts its own
10 Just as birdsong awoke the unit , an owl is heard calling as it flies its nightly patrol over
11 A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators .
12 ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and
13 The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy .
14 One might say that when a particular household is confronted by a mystical threat , it dissolves its individual identity into that of a larger social unit whose size is determined by the severity of the threat .
15 The clue to the GL 's satisfying performance is that it develops its maximum torque at a modest 2,500 rpm , pulling strongly from low revs , making it an easy-going cruiser without the need for constant recourse to the five-speed gearbox .
16 It owes its second chance of life to an alert dock worker .
17 As attractive as the 900 T16S is , it owes its seductive lines to function rather than fashion .
18 It owes its unique status to the fact that the people who developed modern science and in many other ways created the modern world community had acknowledged the supremacy of gold since prehistoric times .
19 And at the same time , it owes its very existence to an alliance of social forces that sees government as the instrument of social domination — whether by a ruling class , a small party or tribal elite or a coalition of either with the bureaucracy of the state .
20 No more than the fact that a company owning a fishing vessel is incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom does the fact that it has its principal place of business in the United Kingdom and that 75 per cent .
21 The second kind of case includes those where the agent 's personal normative position is affected by his consent , if it is valid , i.e. if it has its purported normative consequences .
22 Thus consumption represents the individual appropriation of the social product ; ‘ it has its irreducible moment , that of satisfying a ‘ need ’ ‘ .
23 You may be dissatisfied with your reflection in the mirror but you do have to admit that it has its good points !
24 It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer .
25 But it has its mundane side , like backache and swollen ankles .
26 Our interest lies chiefly with the main board since it is here that investor pressure or the lack of it has its main significance .
27 Among the Conservatives , the equivalent is the 1922 Committee ( since it was founded in that year ) but it has its weekly meetings without ministers or shadow ministers present , dealing with the party leaders through an elected chairman .
28 It has its funny side but ultimately it is about sadness .
29 In a recent television programme on the subject of war photography ( presented somewhat predictably by William Shawcross — the Vietnam industry may cast its net wide but it has its favourite media starts and Shawcross is one of them ) .
30 Some garages will adjust your car free of charge when it has its next service .
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