Example sentences of "from its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This balance was what set apart the New Testament view from its Greco-Roman surroundings . |
| 2 | Some economists argue , however , that German unification required a real appreciation of the D-mark to help shift resources from its current-account surplus into domestic investment and consumption . |
| 3 | I returned after a ten minute wait and the clouds rolled away to waken the scene from its gloomy darkness . |
| 4 | After viewing Ibbeth peril , visitors who are subject to claustrophobia , and possibly others who are not , will be relieved to escape from its gloomy shroud of trees and continue their journey up the valley in a more open environment with the Dee now alongside the road , its limestone bed bleached a pristine white where the water elects to flow beneath the surface . |
| 5 | For its third year Paris 's Salon du Dessin de Collection has moved from its intimate setting in basement rooms of the Hotel George V to the altogether grander Grand Palais . |
| 6 | Edinburgh hosts one of the UK 's largest concentrations of students from China as well as a substantial ‘ Chinatown ’ and students in the Department of East Asian Studies benefit from its intimate relations with both groups . |
| 7 | Finally the CIA itself benefited from its intimate ties with the British Intelligence community . |
| 8 | During the course of the case , Greenpeace produced evidence claiming that the company had notified the NRA of its intention to discharge heavy metals into the Irish Sea from its Whitehaven plant in excess of its pollution consent limits , but that the Authority took no action to prevent it . |
| 9 | The Japanese , holding the Glano valley , had this authority , for most of the hill tribes ' food was normally traded from its fertile plots . |
| 10 | The face of the creature was pointed , animal-like , goat-like , and there were cruel curving talons protruding from its front paws and curling toes with gristly joints and sharp nails at the back . |
| 11 | He looked up at the mirror once more and saw the car behind him , keeping the same distance , the rain spurting fanwise from its front wheels . |
| 12 | It was there in the doorway , sprouting tentacles from its tree-like chest . |
| 13 | Apart from its assonantic association with the heavily symbolic ‘ parrot ’ ( discussed more fully above in reference to Skelton 's Speke , Parot ) , the name also reverberates with nuances from the French language . |
| 14 | The stretch pulls the bone away from its perfect-fit socket — maybe just a millimetre . |
| 15 | The present duke , Guy David Innes Kerr , 37 , said the venture ‘ seemed a sensible extension to the castle opening without detracting from its primary use as a family home ’ . |
| 16 | The whining motor could n't cope with the long grass by the fence , and it melted the extension cable when Pa forgot to unwind it fully from its blue plastic drum . |
| 17 | In Figure 6.11 ( a ) the Earth is rotating almost fast enough to begin to lose mass from its equatorial regions . |
| 18 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 19 | For me , overriding all practical considerations , there is the spiritual uplift which comes after a long sea passage when , at dawn or evening , I enter some tangle-fringed sea loch with the majesty of the hills reflecting from its still waters . |
| 20 | On this occasion the Director , against Cusick 's advice , decided to do the shot by actually burying a full-size Dalek in a sand pit , the idea being to use a tow rope , attached to a Land Rover , to pull the machine from its sandy grave . |
| 21 | To awake from its economic nightmare , the Soviet Union needs to create the three planks on which all successful capitalist nations are founded : a stable macroeconomic environment , private ownership of capital and competitive markets undistorted by government controls . |
| 22 | Enterprise Engineering made a small operating profit , but did not meet expectations due to a reduced level of work from its major oil industry customers . |
| 23 | Enterprise Engineering made a small operating profit in 1992 , but did not meet expectations due to a reduced level of work from its major oil industry customers . |
| 24 | This still lovely riverine landscape must have been settling down from its major reshaping when William Morris bought Kelmscott Manor in 1871 . |
| 25 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is looking to cut another 3,000 jobs from its global payroll of about 35,000 , chairman Bernard Pache said yesterday as he presented the figures for 1992 ( see page six ) . |
| 26 | On Feb. 11 , 1991 , the government freed the pa'anga from its fixed link with the Australian dollar , choosing instead to determine its value against a weighted basket of currencies . |
| 27 | It has been deduced from its apparent brightness that HDE 226868 lies about 2.5 kpc from the Earth . |
| 28 | He then refers to the conference held in 1991 with some 300 theologians , historians , educators and lay leaders from 25 countries who endeavoured to disentangle what is considered legitimate use of religion from its apparent misuse . |
| 29 | The ultimate effect of a tax can be very different from its apparent effect . |
| 30 | Much of the fascination with tool use among animals stems from its apparent similarity to human use of tools . |