Example sentences of "for its [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They praised Bishopsgarth School for its many contacts with local industry , including British Steel and Tioxide , and also for raising £10,000 towards a five day residential course in Northumberland for every year seven pupil .
2 Catholicism , for its many faults , acknowledges the terrors of the waking world , the black void of the individual soul and the need to fill what little time remains with homage to loss , to death , and to fear .
3 On the right here is , first , the summit of Occabé or Ok Abe , the biggest to date , at 5,000 feet , and known for its many Iron-Age burial sites and standing stones ( see Plate 2 ) , and then the immense , noble beech forest of Iraty , which is one of Europe 's largest , covering thousands of acres on either side of the frontier .
4 And Höll 's playing is in the Britten class for its many moments of revelatory insights .
5 The capital of Sardinia , Cagliari , is about 30 miles away and well worth visiting for its many museums and churches .
6 The writer is saying that he understood that the church was not really interested in helping the poor , just in attracting new members to the church for its own glory and ultimate gain .
7 It fights for its own hegemony in literature ; wherever it triumphs , the older genres go into decline .
8 Springhill Community House is well known in the area , both for its own work and its connections with the Conway Mill .
9 But he formed the opinion , which he never afterwards lost , that the Church must gain its proper freedom from the State in the care for its own way of worship , if necessary by disestablishment , from which he never thereafter shrank .
10 France looks to the Courtauld Institute for its own art centre
11 The Proprietor has the right to make copies of audio and video components of the Work for use within its institution for its own teaching programmes but such copies will neither be sold nor lent to third parties .
12 Helping to facilitate group processes in an involved but non-directive manner , encouraging the group to take concerned responsibility for its own development and that of all its members .
13 ‘ The party must fight for its new image , not only for its own members , but also in front of the whole nation . ’
14 ‘ However , a business corporation is organized not so much for industrial warfare as for the production of goods or services for consumers and sustenance for its own members .
15 This is an opportunity to be built on when it occurs as the insurer 's preference for its own panel members is bound to be an initial issue ; at the same time as asserting the client 's right to choose , panel membership can be discussed .
16 On 2 March however , they were called upon to play a more central part in the defence , as Desmond Vincent-Jones relates : ‘ The day started auspiciously when an Heinkel 111 suddenly appeared out of the dawn mist with undercarriage down and started to make an approach to the main runway , presumably mistaking Hal Far for its own base airfield in Sicily .
17 In other words , the executive has to propose to the House that reforms should be instituted and why should any executive wish to make rods for its own back ?
18 Mr Grade believes the Corporation is making a rod for its own back .
19 The formation of a company therefore involves the creation of a new legal entity which is able to trade and be responsible for its own actions .
20 Quite simply , it does n't recruit enough top R&D talent for its own labs .
21 The church councils which were called in the first three decades of the fifteenth century gave each side reason and opportunity to seek support for its own attitude to the war before the remainder of Christendom .
22 Besides working out space requirements in the new location , the planners have to decide whether the organisation needs any special facilities both for its own operations and for its employees .
23 The Bank also laid down the requirements for its own operations in the market :
24 In practice it is usual for the new Emperor to be the son and heir of the old Emperor , as the Imperial family will use all its power and influence to prepare the way for its own candidate .
25 There have been some grants , but the team needs thousands of pounds more for its own unit .
26 Each central village was probably reasonably self-sufficient in terms of weaving for its own clothing , although the wool may have come from downland farms specialising in sheep .
27 The Legal Aid Board has accepted the standards as one of the criteria for the grant of a franchise , in place of earlier proposals for its own management standards .
28 In 1991 it assumed responsibility for its own catering , with total revenue increasing by 60 per cent partly as a result .
29 I also know that I sit here , not because of any evidence against me but because of the legal establishment 's concerns for its own pretensions to infallibility .
30 This incident concerning the saint is also an example of early Christianity 's adaptation of the old pagan beliefs , with politic foresight , for its own purpose ; and , as already shown , traces of the sacred horse-cult remained in Christian ceremony for centuries after this event recorded by Gibbon .
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