Example sentences of "from its [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This balance was what set apart the New Testament view from its Greco-Roman surroundings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Finally the CIA itself benefited from its intimate ties with the British Intelligence community . |
| 4 | The Japanese , holding the Glano valley , had this authority , for most of the hill tribes ' food was normally traded from its fertile plots . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In Figure 6.11 ( a ) the Earth is rotating almost fast enough to begin to lose mass from its equatorial regions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | About an hour before reaching Jura dark clouds began to roll over on us from its lofty peaks , and soon we had a perfect torrent of rain . |
| 10 | Lovely Seat ( from the Norse words meaning Lorn 's summer pasture ) is a broad expansive hill with wonderful views down Wensleydale from its southernmost and Swaledale from its northernmost flanks . |
| 11 | Overall , armed with $500m in new capital from its state-owned shareholders this year and with the renewed growth in the market , SGS-Thomson expects its growth to surpass 20% , said the report in La Tribune . |
| 12 | This logic is set out in a manner that illustrates in an exemplary way the structuralist intention to map out all the possibilities of literature as distinct from its actual manifestations . |
| 13 | That perspective generally sees the UK 's international performance as stemming from its internal strengths and weaknesses . |
| 14 | Now the trust is investigating other renewable energy schemes , including the burning of straw , coppiced timber and other products from its many estates . |
| 15 | ‘ An American oddball who , like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee , takes a sideways look at his own culture , Whit Stillman has directed a film so sharp and amusing that film-goers were shut out in droves from its many screenings in Cannes . |
| 16 | However , anyone taking that quotation as evidence to confirm that Scottish business is dissatisfied with the service it receives from its legal advisers could n't be more wrong . |
| 17 | The prosecution under the Official Secrets Act was launched on 12 January 1971 ( the Conservative Party was then in power and had inherited this state prosecution from its Labour predecessors ) and lasted three and a half weeks . |
| 18 | Then he would pick up the silver hair-brush and groom her hair in slow strokes from its dark roots to its glowing auburn ends . |
| 19 | The Association has ever since this Congress played a prominent part in the affairs of the international deaf community through its membership of the World Federation , and it has itself greatly benefited from its international links . |
| 20 | Results from its international drinks business IDV provide rather more cheer , with profits up 12% to £509m , while its retailing division had a mixed performance . |
| 21 | High overhead , a buzzard circled lazily on a column of warm air and on the roadway a butterfly with big white-ringed , russet-coloured eyes staring from its black wingtips , opened and closed its wings . |
| 22 | It sort of humped up in the middle , sucking water with it , shrugging sprays of water from its wavy edges ! |
| 23 | In addition to Saudi Arabia 's installation of the east-west ‘ Petroline ’ linking the huge Ghawar oilfield to the Red Sea coast , Iraq had also laid a strategic line to enable oil from its southern fields to be sent out via Syria in the event of difficulties in the Gulf . |
| 24 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 25 | The world 's biggest aircraft-leasing firm will now try to squeeze concessions from its hapless bondholders . |
| 26 | The test between compass orientation and true navigation is to move an animal experimentally away from its normal tracks . |
| 27 | The River Naver is one of the finest salmon streams in Scotland and each year hundreds of salmon are caught from its peat-stained waters . |
| 28 | Accordingly , courses range over syntactic and phonological structure , and both temporal and spatial variation , embracing all the major stages of the language , from its Anglo-Saxon origins down to our own times . |
| 29 | Production and publication of The Rock led directly to Eliot 's being invited to write Murder in the Cathedral , which took further his idea of committed Christian drama and his warnings about the dangers of a society cut off from its religious roots . |
| 30 | In answer to Springfield 's signal , Rocky 's big rig revved up , belched smoke from its overhead exhausts and began to creep forward . |