Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last March AMD stole a tenth of this market within months of launching its version of the 386 , and now claims almost a third . |
| 2 | It was a sore point with some villagers who never wished it there and were glad to see its removal during the 1939–45 war for scrap along with the church railings . |
| 3 | Mr Zacharopoulos , Documenta IX turns its back on the 1980s . |
| 4 | The price of land there has skyrocketed since Nagano announced its bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics " . |
| 5 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 6 | Though the fundamentals of cash planning remained , the Treasury had to adapt and refine its strategy through the 1980s in response to the pressure it was under to remain ahead of the game ( Thain and Wright , 1990 ) . |
| 7 | On May 24 the navy reopened its inquiry into the 1989 explosion on the battleship USS Iowa after new tests cast fresh doubt on its original finding that the disaster had been caused by a suicidal gunner [ see pp. 36604 ; 37410 ] . |
| 8 | By the time the Portuguese trade passed its peak in the 1760s , a more than adequate substitute had developed , with special rapidity after 1740 . |
| 9 | Thus Tsarism did show signs of establishing its power after the 1905 revolution . |
| 10 | The Council reiterated its adherence to the 1950 Collective Security Pact , which stipulated that aggression against one Arab state was an aggression against all Arab states . |
| 11 | THE SCOTTISH National Party yesterday signalled its strategy for the 1990 regional council elections and the next general election by accusing Labour of swallowing ‘ Thatcher values ’ . |
| 12 | Lord Joseph made two unsuccessful attempts to limit the national curriculum to a purely advisory role and to restrict its operation to the three core subjects . |
| 13 | In Prussia the agricultural crisis was to reach its climax in the 1880s and 1890s , but its effects were still to be seen and felt well into the twentieth century . |
| 14 | But in fact it was too late , if indeed it had ever been possible after 1950 , for Britain to assert its will on the Six , especially upon France . |
| 15 | The Women Artists Slide Library is also being asked to profile its work at the 181 Gallery in Hammersmith in December and there will be more news on this in our next issue . |
| 16 | When it issued its first interim report in the autumn of 1955 , it was clear that it had narrowed its focus to the two core projects raised before Messina , the Netherlands proposal for a common market and Monnet 's ideas for a nuclear energy community . |
| 17 | Peter Hutcheon meets an organisation re-establishing its identity in the 90s |
| 18 | On the eve of the television debate , El Mundo , a Madrid newspaper that has uncovered several corruption scandals involving the Socialists , said that the party may have used dodgy methods to finance its campaign before the 1986 referendum on whether Spain should stay in NATO . |
| 19 | And the elaborate sacrificial system has found its fulfilment in the one sacrifice of Christ — the perfect Lamb of God — through whom sins are forgiven and atonement is made for all men for ever ( see Hebrews 10:1–18 ) . |
| 20 | This page and View from City Road , Page 21 Dalgety stake : Como International , owned jointly by Elf Aquataine and Robert Holmes a Court , has reduced its holding below the 5 per cent level requiring disclosure . |
| 21 | As early as 1967 an inner group of ministers was examining proposals for the modernization of Polaris to prolong its credibility into the 1990s . |
| 22 | Positivism , and the rehabilitative ideal associated with it , gradually came to dominate criminological thinking and rhetoric , reaching its zenith in the 1950s and 1960s , especially in the United States . |
| 23 | In my garden at Wells I have a wonderful well — indeed , there are five of them and the city of Wells derives its name from the five springs in the palace grounds . |
| 24 | This process , begun in 1946 with the acclaim for Great Expectations , reached its peak with the 1974 publication of Masterworks of the British Cinema , a book that included the script of Brief Encounter but zealously forbade its readers to praise the man who wrote it : ‘ Brief Encounter , indeed , constitutes almost a declaration of independence on Lean 's part from his fruitful but by 1945 no doubt increasingly constricting association with Coward 's writing . ’ |
| 25 | Local authority building reached its peak in the 1970s . |
| 26 | The human capital concept is not new , even though it reached its apotheosis in the 1960s . |
| 27 | This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties . |
| 28 | Seen in his context , which was inter-war Cambridge , Leavis was never much of an innovator , and it is hard to see his critical notoriety , which reached its apogee in the 1950s and early 1960s , as anything other than a triumph of style . |
| 29 | Under the chairmanship of Juan Trippe PAA had rapidly increased its position in the 1930s , enjoying a monopoly on US flights across the Pacific to Japan and China , into Latin America , and over to Britain . |
| 30 | BTR 's Australian arm BTR Nylex has increased its offer to the 15 p.c. minority shareholders in Westinghouse Brake & Signal from A$10 to A$10.20 a share . |