Example sentences of "it its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puerto de la Luz y Las Palmas , to give it its correct name , lies about two miles due south and is protected by a massive breakwater . |
| 2 | Osmone ( to give it its official name ) soothes because it is the first thing a newborn baby smells , he says . |
| 3 | As for Kinnockic ( or , to give it its scholarly name , Kinnockabout ) , its complexities defy analysis . |
| 4 | Media presentation has now become such a critical feature of the process of negotiations and public image-making that those who do not give it its due credit are likely to find their credibility in question . |
| 5 | Now if we consult this record , and remember the success , in giving it its modern form , of a gallery of reformers of roughly utilitarian hue from Tom Paine , Bentham , J.S. Mill , and Tolstoy , to Bernard Shaw , Sidney and Beatrice Webb , and Evelyn Strachey , we might wonder why its provisions for animals do not embody more closely the ideals of that theory . |
| 6 | Delaney made his way through the crew door into the cavernous section of the C130 that gave it its friendly nick-name of Fat Albert . |
| 7 | So what is a Snowdrop , Galanthus to give it its botanical name , doing in flower now ? |
| 8 | Toby had a pencil with a blue one on the end it its scaly tail curled around the pencil and the head was spiked down the neck could be used as a rubber . |
| 9 | Their contribution to the great house is to restore to it its appropriate character , as a hospitable ( but undeniably middle-class ) home . |
| 10 | Juniper berries give it its distinctive flavour ( and its name ) , but each recipe is different . |
| 11 | Ironically , its part-time nature gives it its greatest flexibility . |
| 12 | Somes joined the latter company when it was refounded in 1838 , sold to it its first ship , Tory ( sent to New Zealand in 1839 with a shipload of settlers without government permission ) , and became governor of the company in 1840 . |
| 13 | Among the insects , death-feigning ( or thanatosis , to give it its technical name ) occurs in some beetles , bugs , grasshoppers , stick insects and mantids . |
| 14 | This fear of cats , or ailurophobia to give it its technical name , is rare , but when it does occur it can cause untold misery for the sufferer and it is worth examining how it begins and how it can be cured . |
| 15 | Here comparison is of the essence , and concentration of social anthropology on the differences and similarities between tribal and industrial cultures and institutions the world over gives it its unique character . |
| 16 | Galla , Somali , Gurage , people from the subject kingdom of Kaffa , negroes from the west , mingled on the streets with their Amhara and Tigrean overlords ; but it was these latter who dominated the scene , imposed their stamp upon the town and gave it its unique character . |
| 17 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 18 | So if , for example , I believe that you 've got your belief about whether there 's honey by an especially good method which I ca n't use ( because I ca n't get at your honey pot ) , then I will naturally want to adopt your belief , in order to acquire with it its high chance of being true . |
| 19 | Raymond and Agnes , or the Castle of Lindenberg , play adapted by M. G. Lewis from his novel Ambrosio , or the Monk ; first produced in 1809 , and in other versions later ; the introduction of the character of the Bleeding Nun gave it its popular title . |
| 20 | SPECIAL EVENTS in any railway 's year attract both additional interest and much-needed revenue and later this year the Bala Lake Railway ( or Rheilffordd Lyn Tegid , to give it its Welsh name ) will be organising not one but three . |
| 21 | The Economist , of all newspapers , ought to have the nerve , and the decency , to give it its proper name . |
| 22 | It 's only when I 'm writing an article that I give it its proper name ! |
| 23 | The history of the Central Wales Line , to give it its proper name , is typical of many railway lines in Great Britain . |
| 24 | Mr erm bearing in mind it its multi role capability and the fact that the U K is likely to be engaged in more and more out of air operations in support of U N er has any consideration been given to a maritime variant . |
| 25 | The Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom ( to give it its full name ) needs little introduction . |
| 26 | The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and flora , to give it its full name , is an international treaty which regulates one of the most lucrative and controversial businesses — the international wildlife trade . |
| 27 | The ‘ Act for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt , for the Punishment of Fraudulent Debtors and other purposes ’ , to give it its full name , was , said Wetherfield , a very short , simple and sweeping measure , ‘ a great innovation upon what we have become accustomed to as the legal relations of debtor and creditor . ’ |
| 28 | To load and rename a backup file within Word , you have to give it its full name with the . |
| 29 | He gives it its full title : ‘ the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts , who is enthroned on the cherubim ’ . |
| 30 | The arch of Porta Romana ai Bastioni , to give it its full title , was built in 1598 to commemorate Margherita of Austria leaving the city on her way to marry Philip III of Spain , although the ramparts into which it was fitted had been erected half a century before . |