Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 2 | In other words , 18 months was not long enough for the ‘ marked ’ lead to work its way through the local food chain . |
| 3 | But the Authority also maintained its faith in the existing gas-cooled design . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 6 | Suddenly , I see a boat weaving its way between the improbable pink granite rocks and I experience both relief and excitement . |
| 7 | Advertising today is a highly specialised business which owes its development to the continuous advance in mass communication and in manufacture — even if at its heart it still is drawing public attention to something . |
| 8 | The song really owes its existence to the Big Apple , the title being a play on Paul Simon 's ‘ The Only Living Boy In New York ’ . |
| 9 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 10 | In his statement smuggled to the Independent in London , Brucan said : ‘ I must take issue with a misconception prevailing in the West that this regime owes its survival to the repressive organs of the State . |
| 11 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
| 12 | And then , by gum , their debut ‘ House Of Love ’ single bounced its way into the Top Ten . |
| 13 | Concentrate on the A-measure and attempt to establish its relationship with the true area , both for card and plant subjects . |
| 14 | It would be easier , he thinks , at dawn , to fix his gaze steadily on one particular light and then to establish its place in the returning landscape . |
| 15 | By setting up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( CVR ) in April 1990 to investigate human rights abuses under the previous military regime [ see p. 37528 ] , the new government of President Aylwin attempted to establish its authority over the armed forces and , in particular , the C.-in-C. of the army and former President , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte . |
| 16 | His difficult relations with Roosevelt only confirmed his realist 's intuition that , beneath its idealistic rhetoric , the United States planned to establish its domination throughout the non-communist world . |
| 17 | On the night of Oct. 4-5 small-scale fighting occurred in the capital , Kigali , but the RPF failed to consolidate its position beyond the north-eastern area . |
| 18 | The Highlands and Islands Integrated Development Programme in the UK has its equivalent in the Lozere department but no IDP exists in the Auvergne and the implications for nature conservation of these programmes would have to be the subject of a specific study when their impact is clearer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His dance throughout has its base in the classical vocabulary but MacMillan has coloured it by gestures from cabaret and vaudeville dance traditions , which serve to reveal not only class differences in behaviour but also genuine feelings . |
| 21 | If uneven development has its foundation in the unequal division of labour in society , then over time regional inequality will change , not only in its geographical pattern , but also in its nature , as the division of labour in society changes . |
| 22 | And Turkey has its share of the modern virus . |
| 23 | The process of gestation has its parallel on the psychological level . |
| 24 | Mentioned in the Vedas , the Upanishads and the Mahabharata , the symbol has its origin with the Vedic Aryans , its meaning being clearly defined by the Naga or Aryan initiates . |
| 25 | Analysis of such situations shows that this defensive process has its origin in the infantile conflict with parental authority about some form of instinctual gratification . |
| 26 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 27 | It has been noted that the quantum limit has its origin in the following expression of the uncertainty principle . |
| 28 | This has its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Japan realised it needed natural resources from overseas in order to industrialise effectively to compete with the West . |
| 29 | It has its origin in the academic institution 's need to justify the endless multiplication of commentaries , from undergraduate essays to doctoral dissertations and scholarly articles . |
| 30 | The word slum , first used in the 1820s , has its origin in the old provincial word slump , meaning ‘ wet mire ’ . |