Example sentences of "of its [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Separately , Computer Associates International Inc , which is already doing Unix versions of its mainframe software , is to do a version of its Unicenter systems management software for Microsoft Windows NT . |
| 2 | The Czech Electricity Company has in the past resisted using hard coal because of its higher cost . |
| 3 | However , Mill is usually understood as holding that there may be two pleasures of which the less pleasant is the better in virtue of its higher quality , and that it is then morally more important to promote it than the other . |
| 4 | Initially the programme operated as a project and was evaluated in relation to its specific aims and documented in relation to some of its wider effects and implications . |
| 5 | The influence of these broad parameters makes itself felt in the opening pages of the Report , to the extent that the Committee is prepared to revise its very terms of reference in the light of its wider concerns . |
| 6 | In 1929 the name of the Tramways Department was changed to Blackpool Corporation Transport , in recognition of its wider operations . |
| 7 | What they confirm is the complex notion of uneven development outlined in the last section , and how the changing geography of the UK since the mid-'60s has been part and parcel of its wider transformation . |
| 8 | If a group claiming to speak on behalf of elderly people had failed to deliver because its own interests were at variance with those of its wider public , the absence of any promotional or representative body during the following decade rendered the pensioners ' position still more hazardous . |
| 9 | In 1986 , as part of its wider proposals for the reform of local government finance , the government declared its intention to introduce a new grant system . |
| 10 | In evaluating the market as a mechanism for disciplining management , however , it is necessary to take account of its wider impact , both in terms of the results of consummated mergers and of the overall effects of the threat of a change in control on management behaviour . |
| 11 | The Conservative government elected in 1979 promised a drastic purge of quasi-governmental organizations as part of its wider strategy of reducing public expenditure . |
| 12 | As Professor Wedderburn has observed , the result of this decision could be that where an association of employers is fighting off a trade union , it may be able to ‘ keep its smaller members in the front line and avoid any of its bigger members being parties to the dispute ’ . |
| 13 | It nestles cosily around the Aare , which is crossed by an old wooden bridge that immediately reminds you of its bigger brother in Lucerne . |
| 14 | This was , when all is said and done , class legislation : enacted by one class for the betterment of its lower brethren ; not for the correction of its own bad habits . |
| 15 | Consider the king penguin : the male is the one that incubates the egg , carrying it around on its feet and protecting it for months from the Antarctic weather with a fold of its lower belly … |
| 16 | Today , the little River Twyver ( and the Horsebere Brook ) is largely forgotten , much of its lower section completely culverted . |
| 17 | Because of its greater exposure to the elements — sun , wind and heat — your facial skin is especially prone to moisture loss . |
| 18 | Olivine typically settles faster than plagioclase because of its greater density contrast with basaltic magma , so a layer of plagioclase is left behind ( Fig.1 ) . |
| 19 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |
| 20 | Because of this , and because of its greater length , it would be more obtrusive in the context than Katherine Mansfield 's sentence , and would attach greater importance to the door-shutting than seems to be required . |
| 21 | Strategic planning , because of its greater time horizon , must rely on long term forecasts and is therefore more uncertain . |
| 22 | Objective assessment with tympanometry shows longer durations because of its greater sensitivity compared with otoscopy ( 7.8 years , 4.9 years , 4.0 years , and 2.8 years , respectively ) . |
| 23 | Now we 've shown that the sloppy approach can be put on a firm footing we shall , because of its greater familiarity , lapse into it ! |
| 24 | The conformation of the Holstein is poorer for beef , but because of its greater frame size it seems to be able to produce almost as much meat , though the quality might not be as good . |
| 25 | This was not one of its better days . |
| 26 | The city of Milan has also thoughtfully provided virtually all of its better buildings with name plates to help the visitor . |
| 27 | If this trend continues , Hong Kong could lose 750,000 or more of its better-qualified people , leaving behind a sandwich-society with capital on top , unskilled workers beneath , but little or no middle-class in between . |
| 28 | This species is more popular than the preceding species , probably because of its hardier nature . |
| 29 | Trading down helped the firm grab business from smaller operators and more than made up for falling sales of its classier Gainsborough furniture in the six months to end September . |
| 30 | Indeed , the multi-point injected engine powers the car from 0 to 60 at a rate that leaves many of its larger-engined rivals behinds . |