Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main object of this project is to trace out the life-history of the Keynesian Revolution--from its sources in Keynes ' own ‘ life and times ’ down to its expiry in the wake of the second oil shock in 1979 . |
| 2 | The museum was named after its founder , Vojta Náprstek who , on being exiled after the revolution of 1848 went to America . |
| 3 | Well-launched as it was , I regret to report that the organization of China-Canada Inc. seemed to die of inactivity after its founder left for China in 1946 ; it was , after all , very much of a one-man show and the big names on all the committees were more or less honorary only . |
| 4 | In the decade of the 1950s a new series of county histories was initiated under the heading The Darwen Series , after its founder Lord Darwen . |
| 5 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
| 6 | So , while the OAS plots raised or rather revived concerns about what would happen to the Fifth Republic after its founder 's disappearance , the re-emergence of parliamentary opposition revived concerns about a restoration of the régime des partis . |
| 7 | The use of Net Theory , often called ‘ Petri nets ’ after its initiator C A Petri ( Introduction to Net Theory — Brauer 1980 ) was considered , but discarded as being too specialised to meet one of the research project aims , ie to produce an enquiry method that could be used by practitioners with the minimum of training . |
| 8 | Kalachakra , Dorian Shaw visited Tibet early last year to record life and ceremonies in that country 40 years after its invasion by China ( until 22 Feb ) . |
| 9 | The Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers decided at a meeting in Luxembourg on Oct. 22 to lift diplomatic and economic sanctions against China ( imposed in June 1989 — see p. 36722 ) and Iran ( agreed in February 1989 — see p. 36450 ) and to establish diplomatic and economic relations with Vietnam , broken off after its invasion of Cambodia in 1978 . |
| 10 | Commenting on the appointment , Dean Witter Reynolds Inc analyst Jay Stevens told Dow Jones & Co that the automakers have been working to slash excess capacity and workers for years and that that is the situation now faced by IBM after its decades of success in the mainframe computer market have been undermined . |
| 11 | The clock ticked merrily , the fire whispered and crackled , the cat purred upon the window sill , sitting foursquare and smug after its midday meal . |
| 12 | Now reposing in the British Museum where it was taken after its removal to Halesworth police station , the horde consists of several thousand silver and gold coins , minted in various imperial centres such as Rome , Milan and Trier . |
| 13 | The British Museum wants to recover for the nation the 2,000-year-old bronze Roman plaque which fetched £26,000 at auction after its removal one night from land in North Yorkshire . |
| 14 | The 43-year-old star of The Charmer telephoned the BBC moments after its Watchdog programme told of the plight of mother-of-three Jenny Graham . |
| 15 | Consider now an arithmetic expression written in a high-level language like Algol or Fortran , for example A compiler for a computer with an array of accumulators would translate it into a form such as The compiler performs this translation by first transforming the original into reverse Polish notation , where each operator appears after its operands , in this case ( see , for example , Randell and Russell 1964 ) . |
| 16 | His first one , Les Jolies Petites , disappeared after its tour of England and Tiller never used the name again . |
| 17 | Yet at some time in the days after its surrender to 5 Corps , the decision had been taken that the division should not be repatriated , although no formal record of how or why this happened seems to have survived . |
| 18 | Six months after its March 1989 introduction [ see pp. 36541-2 ] , the Brady Plan for Third-World debt began to run |
| 19 | The band was originally formed way back in the early 1900's under the name of Milltown Flute Band , but shortly after its inauguration the band 's conductor and founder member , John Millar , died and the other members decided to change the name of the band in his memory . |
| 20 | On 10 September 1981 ( the date of his acquittal ! ) , an action was brought by the company against Mr Fowler and the eight former employees alleging an unlawful conspiracy and breach of implied terms of contract that they would faithfully serve Faccenda Chicken Ltd and ‘ would not use confidential information and/or trade secrets gained by them and each of them whilst in the company 's employment to the disadvantage or detriment of the company , whether during the currency of such employment or after its cessation ’ . |
| 21 | No further steamings are planned for the locomotive after its return to York , due to the fast-approaching expiry of the boiler ticket . |
| 22 | The signs are that West Germany will still insist that the EMU negotiations start after its election on December 2nd , not least because the fusion of the Ostmark and the D-mark will inevitably distract minds in the Bundesbank and the finance ministry that could otherwise be thinking about EMU . |
| 23 | It is known that shortly after its discovery , a copy , now lost , was made and sent to Spain . |
| 24 | On loan to the National Gallery in London until 1991 , after its discovery in 1985 , it measures 214.5x143 cm and is estimated to bring £2–3m ( $3.5–5.3m ) . |
| 25 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 26 | The report was submitted in March 1991 , but was only made public last month after its discovery in the Department of Environment 's library by a Friends of the Earth researcher . |
| 27 | The Programmer agrees to use his best endeavours to keep all details of the Program confidential both during the currency of this Agreement and after its termination . |
| 28 | The Programmer agrees to use his best endeavours to keep all details of the Program confidential both during the currency of this Agreement and after its termination . |
| 29 | Then she undressed with due care for her dress , unbelievably crisp after its night of stress . |
| 30 | Yet 18 months after its signing , and set against the political and economic backdrop of today 's Europe , the dangers of persisting with it are smaller than the dangers of scuttling it . |