Example sentences of "[prep] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once operational , the existing scouring machine presently located in the dye house will be moved along-side its new partner , where foundation work has already been completed for this major operation . |
| 2 | Bewl Valley is beginning to reap the benefits after its first crop in 1987 . |
| 3 | More notably , however , at the Chichester Theatre in 1983 he rescued the reputation of A Patriot for Me , John Osborne 's tragi-comedy of homosexuality which had been banned after its first performance in 1965 . |
| 4 | In July 1908 after its first year of trading , the bar account showed a £45 profit , including stock . |
| 5 | In the past I have had to search far and wide for opportunities to fly this wonderful big radial-engined workhorse , and my quest had taken me to Australia , Canada and various parts of the USA ; but now , at last , 45 years after its first flight , we have a floatplane Beaver here in the UK . |
| 6 | The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is . |
| 7 | We know that Olaudah Equiano spread successive printings of his autobiography after its first publication in 1789 by selling them with antislavery as well as personal benefit in mind to his audiences after meetings . |
| 8 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 9 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 10 | As the ABI wo n't be updated until a year after its first edition , additional requirements like these will be published as addenda . |
| 11 | IBM is now saying the Taligent operating environment , its joint venture with Apple , wo n't be able to run OS/2 , Mac or AIX applications until a year after its first release . |
| 12 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 13 | Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale , for example , was revived in 1623 more than a decade after its first appearance . |
| 14 | After its first emergency meeting on Aug. 3 the GCC Ministerial Council met again in Jeddah on Aug. 7 and reiterated its call for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal . |
| 15 | Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after its first Christian Emperor and remained capital of a vast polyglot empire until its capitulation to Mohammedanism in 1453 . |
| 16 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
| 17 | The new controller of BBC1 , Alan Yentob , said he made the ‘ very hard ’ decision last night to halt the soap after its first 156 episodes end in July . |
| 18 | The new controller of BBC1 , Alan Yentob , said he made the ‘ very hard ’ decision last night to halt the soap after its first 156 episodes end in July . |
| 19 | The vitriol , talent and critical edge of NME made it indisputably the thinking kid 's po paper , especially after its nearest rival Sounds nailed its colours to the laddishness mast in the shape of Oi ! and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal . |
| 20 | However , there were indications last night that some Communist deputies may seek to complicate the vote , by not turning up in sufficient numbers , or to delay it , possibly by as much as three weeks , to allow their own party to re-group after its recent humiliations . |
| 21 | LAURA Ashley , at 93p , will tomorrow announce a return to trading profit after its recent setbacks . |
| 22 | Keep on using lead free if the engine is not set properly after its recent service . |
| 23 | There is always another side to the story of course , and IBM still has its apologists : Tim Mead , who was lately in charge at Datamation magazine , another former icon now down on its luck , wrote an outraged letter to the Wall Street Journal after its recent critical piece . |
| 24 | Trans Provincial Airlines Bristol 170 Freighter C-FDFC ( ex-BISU ) looking very smart after its recent repaint |
| 25 | The Greenfield committee , so named after its eminent chairman Dr James Greenfield prescribed 14 doses of medicine for an ailing National Health Service ( NHS ) . |
| 26 | Our period opens with the imperial coronation of 962 ; shortly after its close , in 1165 , Frederick Barbarossa had Charlemagne canonized by his anti-pope Paschal III . |
| 27 | Macquarie Island , close to the Antarctic Convergence , has a resident population of common redpolls Acanthis flammea , a species which spread south to subantarctic islands after its nineteenth-century introduction into New Zealand from Europe . |
| 28 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 29 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 30 | The Home Office is planning tougher powers against laundering by adding extra clauses to the Criminal Justice ( International Co-operation ) Bill after its second reading this month . |