Example sentences of "and its [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Despite the CKR 's reduced reliance on ocean shipping documents , its lesser chance of fraud and breach of security , especially when compared with paper based and telefaxed bills of lading , and its lower handling costs , North American banks , particularly United States banks , did not accept the CKR .
2 In 1875 North London Collegiate School and its lower school ( Camden School , opened in 1871 ) were successful in gaining endowments which secured their financial future , though the struggle for funding was trying and uphill work .
3 Thus the check specification need not always have both its upper and its lower limits different from the release specification .
4 Kingsway Motors ' damages were assessed as the difference between the value of the car when ownership should have passed to them ( i.e. when they bought it ) and its lower value when ownership actually passed to them ( i.e. when title was fed ) .
5 The street was one of those which led into the souk and its lower end was completely blocked by stalls .
6 This whole issue was considered by the Oakes Committee whose precise terms of reference were ‘ to consider measures to improve the system of management and control of higher education in the maintained sector of England and Wales and its better co-ordination with higher education in the universities ’ .
7 Being a regular to the attractions of the Continent and its sunnier climes , I started by skimming through and picking out a few of the relatively recent crags that I have visited , such as Ceuse & Oppede le Vieux : they are in — fine .
8 That is because communism and its paler imitations have been decisively rejected and because there is a trend to more liberal and democratic values .
9 So the world of science moved along its intellectual railway tracks , and its further progress seemed , like that of the railways themselves , to offer the prospect of the laying-down of more tracks of the same kind through new territory .
10 Reduced cholesterol metastability of hepatic bile and its further decline in gall bladder bile in patients with cholesterol gall stones
11 Even TLS , which momentously abandoned the anonymity of its book-reviews in 1974 under the editorship of John Gross , is cosmopolitan and more-than-literary in its range ; and its newer rival the London Review of Books , begun in 1979 with Karl Miller as editor , was a fortnightly avowedly conducted in imitation of the New York Review of Books : both of them , as it happens , Anglo-American and more in their choice of authors and topics .
12 Modern consciousness may include its objectified and transcendentalized elements , its materialist and superstitious beliefs , its scientized common sense and its older patterns of belief .
13 The birth of THE WOMEN 'S TROOP has made it and its older brother company , Black Mime Theatre , the only two professional Black Mime companies in existence to date .
14 The 3.6 metre ( 142in ) has a surface area of 2.5 sq m ( 27 sq ft ) and its larger variant with 5 metres span ( 16½ ft. ) has 5 sq m area or 54 sq ft !
15 Concessionaires usually employ their own staff , but are able to take advantage of the facilities offered by the department store , together with its advertising , and its larger numbers of customers .
16 The wider scope of the EEC and its larger membership might well impose strains long before the end of the interim period .
17 Conservation groups pointed out that the Commission was studying the wrong forests ( its own and its younger plantations ) and had deliberately excluded the trees which , on the basis of continental experience , would be most at risk .
18 A MARKETING battle begins this week between industry goliath IBM and its smaller opponent Microsoft .
19 As he travelled on , this colour and its cruder associates became more apparent .
20 British geology has good control , through the publication of the Laming list and its earlier editions , whilst Scottish geology has the Rolfe and Will lists .
21 The Etruscans and Europe ’ , the major exhibition on both the Etruscan culture and its later influence on European art , was visited by over 330,000 people while at the Grand Palais from 19 September to 4 January .
22 The land attached to the villa emerges as a seventh-century estate joined to a minster belonging to the See of Worcester , and its later history , with minor changes to the estate and its boundary , can be documented through the Middle Ages to the present modern civil parish .
23 Furthermore , Lord MacMillan observed that ‘ the categories of negligence are never closed ’ , thus leaving the way open for the broadening of the concept of negligence and its later application to a great number of different situations .
24 The idea is that Penang will provide the skills and its poorer neighbours will provide the labour , although Mr Koh is too polite to put it that bluntly .
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