Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Battle of Britain , Air Chief Marshal Dowding had the incomparable advantage of information from Ultra and he monitored its signals very carefully ; he knew , therefore , that only fifty per cent of the German aircraft were then serviceable , and so , on 15 September he sent up every available fighter plane against the enemy . |
| 2 | First , the club could not afford large-scale spending on players : the payment of £200 for Lloyd Davies in 1907 strained its resources to the limit . |
| 3 | Holding the cockerel between his knees , Kalchu slit its throat . |
| 4 | When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies . |
| 5 | Beethoven , whose own opera of marital fidelity was heavily influenced by its music , regarded it as immoral -a reaction at least healthier than that of most commentators , who dismissed its plot as merely frivolous , and unworthy of Mozart . |
| 6 | Even though it had detailed knowledge of the flight 's route so soon after the event , the US government dismissed its claim out of hand hours later , and never explained why . |
| 7 | The Church Commissioners proposed its demolition because they were unable to identify any alternative use for the building . |
| 8 | Stamford failed entirely to solve the problem of its open fields ; but whereas Nottingham created its slums , Stamford fossilised into the beautiful seventeenth- and eighteenth-century town we see today , a museum piece from a pre-industrial England . |
| 9 | Those who will seek to understand United States policy on Kuwait , Somalia and Bosnia in the 1990's will want to look not only at the personalities and style of presidents and advisers , but at the content of the knowledge base of their DSS , and above all at those who designed the system and created its rule base . |
| 10 | It cleverly created its Polo brand to exploit Americans ' nostalgia for an English country life which never really existed except in Hollywood movies , and has been careful to use the brand only for top-of-the-range products . |
| 11 | As the same time , the left-wing sympathies of Brent Council allowed the inverted nazism of Radical Librarianship free rein to withdraw ( i.e. censor ) anything that offended its sensibilities . |
| 12 | Tipping down her throat a large measure of neat bourbon , she gasped , leaning weakly against the wall and shuddering as the fiery liquid scorched its way down into her stomach . |
| 13 | The pro-Cuban National Liberation Army ( Ejército de Liberación Nacional — ELN ) , whose persistent attacks on oil pipelines ( the latest on May 13 , 1990 , closing the main Caño-Limón line ) had caused the loss of an officially estimated $40,000,000 in revenue since January 1990 ( and an estimated $500,000,000 since 1985 ) , maintained its rejection of peace contacts with the government which had declared an " all-out war " on the group on Jan. 3 . |
| 14 | Only the Kandyan Kingdom maintained its independence in the interior . |
| 15 | It underneath maintained its course . |
| 16 | This latter idea was rejected by Iran , which maintained its insistence on negotiations on Resolution 598 in its entirety and under UN mediation , despite Hussein 's Dec. 2 suggestion that the committees could eventually lead to meetings " at leadership level " . |
| 17 | The Iranian government maintained its neutrality on the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37696 ] , reacting cautiously to news of the allied attack on Iraq on Jan. 16 . |
| 18 | In December 1790 the Quaker committee , which maintained its existence alongside the London body , prompted Friends in the country to lobby their local MPs , particularly those elected for the first time in 1790 . |
| 19 | But the Authority also maintained its faith in the existing gas-cooled design . |
| 20 | The State for Engels and Marx was as we saw , a tool by which the dominant class maintained its position . |
| 21 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 22 | The second-largest DLP faction , that led by former opposition leader Kim Young Sam , maintained its dominance in Pusan , but saw many of its candidates defeated in Seoul and elsewhere . |
| 23 | Forty four members were nominated to service on ARCUK Council and the Institute maintained its representation on all ARCUK committees . |
| 24 | Unless our own society renounced " many wrong ambitions and wrong desires " and maintained its allegiance to God , it would certainly become no better and perhaps much worse than other regimes " which are popularly execrated " . |
| 25 | The United States , following a major review of its strategic stance in the region in the second half of 1989 , maintained its refusal to sign the protocols to the 1985 Treaty of Rarotonga , which made the Pacific a nuclear-free zone [ see p. 33855 ] , despite the improvement in its relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Osaka maintained its importance as a financial , commercial and industrial centre , but despite a population of over 1.5 million in 1920 was still dwarfed by Tokyo , which was not only the locus of a highly centralized national administration but attracted financial , commercial , industrial , educational and cultural activities as well . |
| 27 | The Copyright Office … maintained its holding that the amount of originality necessary to hold a copyright in a derivative work is minimal and that the printer owns the copyrights in the prints . ’ |
| 28 | The government , faced with this fresh outbreak of insurgency , maintained its policy of talks with Brunswijk and also opened negotiations with the Tucayana , an eight-member Tucayana delegation meeting with Jaggernath Lachmon , chairman of the National Assembly , on Oct. 9 . |
| 29 | The nationalist government of Edward Fenech Adami maintained its policy of encouraging West European investment [ see p. 37014 ] , liberalizing trade and foreign investment , removing import licences , and promoting export industries and private-sector employment . |
| 30 | The Chatichai government maintained its policy of increased support for the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) and the Vietnam governments alongside a sterner approach towards the Thai-based Cambodian resistance . |