Example sentences of "its [noun pl] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them . |
| 2 | It is ICI 's policy to manage all of its activities so as to give benefit to society , ensuring that they meet relevant laws and regulations ; that they are acceptable to the community at large ; and that their environmental impact is reduced to a practicable minimum . |
| 3 | As a committed Labour Party member I can not condone nor understand why , with the country suffering from Tory fatigue , the Labour Party does not thrust home its policies rather than become embroiled in this negative smear and counter-smear campaign . |
| 4 | Admiral Croft , for instance , uses ‘ we ’ and its cases more than ten times as frequently as Lady Catherine de Burgh . |
| 5 | When IBM stock hit bottom with a such resounding thud last month it cost its shareholders more than $6 billion , 17.5% of total capitalisation . |
| 6 | That blandly papered over the facts that Britain 's share of world trade had steadily declined , its prices had risen more and its exports less than those of its ex-enemies , the Germans and the Italians . |
| 7 | In McEllistrim v The Ballymacelligott Co-op Agricultural & Dairy Society [ 1919 ] AC 548 a co-operative society had changed its rules so as to prevent any member from selling milk other than to the society . |
| 8 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 9 | The great clothing factory that took up most of it had shut down its operations more than four hours back and only a handful of Security guards and maintenance engineers were to be found down here now . |
| 10 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The scheme has been praised for its clear and well-presented schedules , and this is definitely one of its strengths even if the schedules may seem a little daunting on first acquaintance . |
| 12 | The traditional view is that Parliament has no power to bind its successors either as to the manner or as to the form of subsequent legislation . |
| 13 | Claiming to be ‘ Non-Political , Non-Partisan and Non-Sectarian ’ , it asked the support of every intelligent Burgess for its candidates not because of their political or sectarian views , but because they will work and vote without fear or favour : |
| 14 | Crying is more usual in the evenings and the baby may draw its legs up as it cries and become very red in the face . |
| 15 | This is not wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 16 | This is not a wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 17 | This is not a wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . " |
| 18 | But if the gist of the article is genuinely to demolish the rumour , or to demolish the credibility of its mongers rather than its victim , the article as a whole may not bear a defamatory meaning . |
| 19 | Tractable , capable of an immense amount of hard work with reasonable economy , it will have its devotees long after production has ceased . ’ |
| 20 | But flexibility of the VME standard does have its advantages especially if previously designed systems were based on it . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind the commercial raison d'etre of the court , there was a case for paying its judges more than those in other divisions . |
| 22 | The African elephant shrew , a highly-strung insect-eating mammal the size of a mouse with a nose drawn out into a mobile trunk , depends for its safety on knowing its trails better than any hunter that might chase it . |
| 23 | Its importance was based on two temporary factors , the great Unionist support for its ideas rather than its leaders , and the loyalty of Law to Asquith , which left an opening for Carson . |
| 24 | From its beginnings more than a century ago , modern mathematics has aimed at a total abstraction in the interests of rigour and distillation of its logic . |
| 25 | So , this at least is indisputable : that however it may have seemed to Cole in 1944 , justification by success has lost its validity : and the loss prompts the question whether the Movement should re-appraise its purposes so as to establish Co-operation on a broader and securer footing . |
| 26 | Each band here represents one year we can age the , the coral by counting its bands just as trees can be banded by counting . |
| 27 | Since Japan 's constitution forbids the use of its troops abroad except in self-defence , its participation in the peacekeeping force was hedged around with tight conditions . |
| 28 | Esler Dening commented that he had always suspected that the Americans had not appreciated the full significance of what they had taken on in Korea ; it appeared that they were unwilling to accept the consequences of being located in an area of Soviet predominance and it would be regrettable in its implications elsewhere if the United States retreated . |
| 29 | It may thus be difficult for a group to organise its affairs so as to avoid the deemed attribution of the knowledge of a director who straddles two companies , in the above example , to the parent company . |
| 30 | Both take some following , and the Cobra in particular will probably never be repeated — not even with the Viper , which seems to be losing its fangs even before it 's born . |