Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 2 | This was the first time that China had indicated its willingness unilaterally to halt the supply of arms to Cambodia . |
| 3 | ENB is doing its level best to stay calm . |
| 4 | Thus the scarce research work on the effects of participation on effectiveness is further limited by its inability clearly to define ( and to measure ) what it is studying . |
| 5 | Unfortunately these histories are not always clear owing to the limitations of the human body and its inability verbally to state the problems . |
| 6 | LIBYA reaffirmed its determination yesterday to fight United Nations sanctions and said it would expel diplomats from countries which have taken action against it . |
| 7 | Share represents the interests of IBM users and tries to bring its influence directly to bear on the company . |
| 8 | The Press Complaints Commission is now in operation , and we will monitor its work carefully to see if self-regulation succeeds . |
| 9 | The muse is a poetic convention and its appearance here to demand the authenticity of Astrophil 's feelings ( look in thy heart ) is ironic . |
| 10 | The most striking feature of this package , apart from its aim actively to involve employers and entrepreneurs , is a sharp reduction in the role of local government . |
| 11 | This Coal Industry Bill must be one of the shortest of its sort ever to come before Parliament . |
| 12 | The failure of the CPT , Apto 's successor , which had the endorsement of the activist wing of the Roman Catholic Church and of the leading CNT and CUT labour confederations , to emulate the May success was attributed to its failure effectively to mobilize its supporters , which in turn was felt to stem from its mistaken belief that the Colorados were a spent political force . |
| 13 | Directive , the court holding that in such a case the member state is obliged to make good damage suffered by individuals as a result of its failure so to do . |
| 14 | Here again Iran 's strategic aim had been to render its opponent harder to govern . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal is a very busy court which has to ration its time and manage its business carefully to avoid unacceptably long delays in the determination of appeals . |
| 16 | M&S is the first big retailer to move to Canary Wharf and its announcement yesterday to take space in the building is a boost of confidence for the 71-acre London Docklands project . |
| 17 | M&S is the first big retailer to move to Canary Wharf and its announcement yesterday to take space in the building is a boost of confidence for the 71-acre London Docklands project . |
| 18 | Formalist theory reversed the priority of content over form and devoted its attention exclusively to form . |
| 19 | Presumably , if the House of Commons chose to determine upon the fate of a Bill by drawing lots or tossing a coin , it would be within its competence so to do . |
| 20 | HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial . |
| 21 | The non-punitive approach of the course is reflected in its policy neither to reward low scores nor to punish underscoring . |
| 22 | For example , Kramer ( 1977a ) assumes that in each election the incumbent party defends its established policy , whereas the opposition chooses its policy freely to maximize its vote . |
| 23 | In 1912 the Labour Party overcame its caution sufficiently to agree at least to inquire into the feasibility of such a strike . |
| 24 | Norman finds its success hard to account for . |
| 25 | More than this ; few dissent from the proposition that it is legislatively supreme , that is to say , that it is competent to make or unmake any law whatever , and that no other body can impede its will so to do . |
| 26 | I even took its number just to prove how professional I was , not that I had any idea how it could help . |
| 27 | DESPITE its cost-cutting and job reduction programmes , British Petroleum went out of its way yesterday to keep shareholders happy at the group 's annual meeting . |
| 28 | ‘ Irrespective of its ability either to discourage certain forms of behaviour , or to bring offenders to justice , the law should delineate and prohibit behaviour which is socially abhorrent . |
| 29 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 30 | The importance of this physicality of the artefact derives from its ability thereby to act as a bridge , not only between the mental and physical worlds , but also , more unexpectedly , between consciousness and the unconscious . |