Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] its [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp made its debut at the National Association of Broadcasters Exhibition with its Ultimedia Tools Series , an integrated suite of over 60 software tools . |
| 2 | FRISC got its name from a design that included on-board floating point and interleaved memory . |
| 3 | Ontario was designed by a master hand , with many built-in contrasts — for example , compare the eerie wind sculpted rocks at Tobermory ( Flowerpot Island got its name for a good reason ) and the twists and turns of the 1,000 islands to the smooth , sandy beaches at Grand Bend or the rolling farmland in Mennonite country . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , the Czechoslovak government has allocated a budget to promote its position on the dam abroad . |
| 5 | This has given time for the ‘ marked ’ isotope to work its way through the environment much more thoroughly than in Turin . |
| 6 | The latter case found its way on the front page of the Sunday People under the headline BEAUTY QUEEN 'S LIFE OF CRIME Terrorised wife 's story . |
| 7 | The PNSF had previously been staunchly anti-Arafat and the initiative was regarded by some sources as an attempt by Syria to strengthen its influence over the PLO [ for March reports of Syrian plans to increase its influence within the PLO see p. 38121 ] . |
| 8 | The route has its intake in the Gaza Strip , which is occupied territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 9 | Several legal experts doubted its viability as a test case , however , because of uncertainties about the application of constitutional rights in the territories . |
| 10 | Her caring approach on the course has its background in the golfing upbringing she had from her father , Bill Kratzert , who , like her husband and her brother , is a professional . |
| 11 | And the rip-off was well divided and a segment found its way to a bank account that was anonymous in all but its number . |
| 12 | Given the miserable legislative record of the Duma and its manifest inability to impose its will on the government , the policy of clinging to the Duma in the hope that popular respect for the Russian parliament would grow proved vain . |
| 13 | Arguments of this kind normally started from the assumption that the powers of Europe were still in a ‘ state of nature ’ with respect to each other and that each of them was engaged , consciously or not , in a ceaseless struggle to increase its influence at the expense of its neighbours . |
| 14 | In the same year the N A L R W U changed its name to the National Union of Agricultural Workers ( NUAW ) . |
| 15 | This image of the male owes its origin to the writings of the great historian Herodotus , following his visit to ancient Egypt two and a half thousand years ago . |
| 16 | The price of land there has skyrocketed since Nagano announced its bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics " . |
| 17 | • Ropeable Lotus dealers in the US were after Lotus boss Michael Kimberley 's blood after the Lotus-badged Bertone Emotion made its debut at the Detroit show earlier this year . |
| 18 | EVERY year the Northern Region Councils Association produces its State of the Region report . |
| 19 | During a series of pre-conference meetings between members of the government-in-exile and its critics , the government reportedly agreed to restore the original 1962 constitution in return for an undertaking by the opposition to affirm its loyalty to the ruling dynasty . |
| 20 | There were workmen on the scaffolding and , down at the bottom , a small boat nudging its way along the length of the works . |
| 21 | On Jan. 9 , 1990 , the US administration announced its support for the restoration of World Bank loans to China which met " basic human needs " ; the International Herald Tribune reported on Jan. 13 that this covered about $2,000 million of the $7,000 million sought by the World Bank . |
| 22 | And it evinces a rather daring readiness to weave its fiction around the world of work , where private lives are inextricably bound up with talk of profit margins and raw materials . |
| 23 | As Kelly stood watching the string , her hands sunk deep into her windcheater pockets , Harry Short 's Mercedes made its way along the gallops between the path and the road . |
| 24 | His great black horse made its way through the crowd of menservants until he came alongside the princess 's window . |
| 25 | The new groups who were in the charts , even as the British Task Force made its way across the Atlantic — Duran Duran , ABC , Spandau Ballet — suggested that , of all things , fun was once again back in fashion . |
| 26 | The blizzard was worse now , and what little light made its way between the flakes was failing . |
| 27 | A cold grey light made its way round the corners of the curtains and trickled into the room . |
| 28 | I remember that between a death and the subsequent funeral the street would be very quiet , pianos were locked , children were not allowed to play anywhere near the house and on the day of interment , all blinds were drawn , whilst as the cortege made its way to the Cemetery people would stop , the men always removing headgear . |
| 29 | Bruce , defending the expansion of university extra-mural work since the war , saw the future role of the WEA primarily as a student-body rather than as one with a teaching responsibility , ‘ an organisation of all adult students ’ with little or no emphasis on the working-class element : ‘ in the general interest , it would seem best … for the WEA to concentrate its attention upon the stimulation and organisation of demand … all but the most elementary pioneer work could become the responsibility of Extra-Mural Departments or local authorities ’ with the WEA left as ‘ the mouthpiece of lively , conscious student demand ’ . |
| 30 | The aristocratic disdain for manual labour has its counterpart in the Situationist ’ attitude to the working class considered as the moronised victims of the spectacle . |