Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Turkey has its share of the modern virus . |
| 2 | Israel had announced in October that it would attend the Ottawa talks , thereby ending its boycott of the multilateral refugee negotiations [ see p. 39167 for Israeli participation in multilateral regional economic co-operation talks in Paris in late October ] . |
| 3 | The country emphasises its attainment of the modest Montreal Protocol target ( a cut in consumption of CFC 's by 50 per cent ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Britain is not enjoying its presidency of the European Council . |
| 6 | For instance , how valid are the company 's assumptions about : customer sensitivity to price changes ( price elasticity of demand ) ; the effectiveness of its advertising in stimulating customer demand , and in maintaining its share of the total market ; the relationship of per capita real income to demand for its products ( for instance , people with increasing incomes tend to eat a wider variety of foodstuffs than hitherto , yet their per capita expenditure on food tends to decline as a proportion of their total personal expenditure ) . |
| 7 | Although Burda talks of maintaining its share of the upper end of the periodicals market this has been interpreted as a delaying tactic , to allow the magazine to bow out gracefully . |
| 8 | The Court acknowledged that third parties could accept treaty obligations informally , but found that Germany had not ‘ unilaterally assumed the obligations of the Convention ; or … manifested its acceptance of the conventional regime or … recognised it as being generally applicable to the delimitation of continental shelf areas . ’ |
| 9 | This formed a united Serbian region which announced its acceptance of the Collective State Presidency 's position on a solution to the crisis , and called for general mobilization to " solve the problem of Serbs in Croatia militarily , because all … truces concluded so far have been violated by Croatia " . |
| 10 | I spoke to the NRA this morning and asked what consultations it had with the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. before the unit produced its chapter of the full-length study on the Cardiff bay barrage proposal . |
| 11 | A View of the Present State of Ireland enforces its perspective of the savage nature of the Irish by giving them a curious ethnogeny . |
| 12 | In this sense , the DUP has succeeded in establishing its view of the constitutional crisis and the proper reactions to it . |
| 13 | A 5 p.c. reduction in gross margins on lower-margin desk-top computer products and the weakness in the market were blamed for last year 's downturn but ICL says its share of the British computer market rose by one point to 19 p.c . |
| 14 | specifically did not accept the SEELPI Reporter 's understanding and interpretation of key Structure Plan housing and environmental policies , but reiterated its acceptance of the Regional Council 's interpretation ; and |
| 15 | BP is to spend $340 million in developing its share of the first phase of the Mars oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 16 | The deal will lift its share of the Spanish soft drinks market from 8 to 10 per cent and of the Portuguese market from 3 to 8 per cent . |
| 17 | Rushing belatedly to launch a Windows edition of 1-2-3 , the firm released a faulty version of the program and the firm has seen its share of the lucrative spreadsheet business slip to 48% . |
| 18 | It 's a far cry from Lille , World Cup excitement , the All Blacks and a crowd of well over 30,000 to an open field on the University of Victoria campus where BRITISH COLUMBIA opened its defence of the Canadian Senior Provincial Championship , on November 9 and 10 . |
| 19 | The Communist Party ( PCP ) , which had in August declared its approval of the attempted coup in the Soviet Union , lost nearly half its seats , obtaining only 8.8 per cent of the vote and 17 seats on a joint platform ( the United Democratic Coalition — CDU ) with smaller leftist parties . |
| 20 | The ex-Yugoslav Publishers Association has had its membership of the International Publishers Association suspended . |
| 21 | Like any reign , Edward IV 's had produced its share of the disgruntled and disenchanted hoping for better times . |
| 22 | Like any reign , Edward IV 's had produced its share of the disgruntled and disenchanted hoping for better times . |
| 23 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 24 | And the Broadcasting Standards Council began its monitoring of the small screen with a warning from its chairman , Lord Rees-Mogg , that television producers should not impose their own values if they offended the viewing public . |
| 25 | In essence each region or district gets its share of the total amount of funds available on the basis of the size of the population served , weighted to take account of the use different sections of that population can be expected to make of the service . |
| 26 | The Bush administration reiterated its opposition to abortion when , on April 6 , Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr filed a brief which appealed to the Supreme Court to use its consideration of the Pennsylvanian law as an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade . |
| 27 | The DPP members demanded that the National Assembly should not be used to amend the Constitution and claimed that the Kuomintang planned to protect its control of the political system by including undemocratic revisions , including the retention of emergency presidential powers . |
| 28 | The Central Statistical Office has reduced its guesstimate of the expected monthly surplus from £300million to £100million , though it stresses the figures are subject to ‘ substantial ’ revision . |
| 29 | The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has reduced its estimate of the annual rate at which tropical forests were cut down during the 1980s . |
| 30 | Ukrainian Prime Minister Vitold Fokin said on Jan. 29 that Ukraine would pay its share of the Soviet Union 's foreign debt ( 16.37 per cent ) independently . |