Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun sg] on the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The process of gestation has its parallel on the psychological level . |
| 2 | Her thesis has its gaze on the exact detail of the exchange of cattle , goats , blankets , gourds and snuff , and it tries to establish by the comparative method that these customs are part of universal human practice . |
| 3 | The tightness and speed of the narrative , too , has its effect on the direct , concrete prose style which , too often in the earlier books , had become prosy and had lost shape in informative interpolations . |
| 4 | However , the company has its eye on the estimated 200 000 American children with ‘ normal variant short stature ’ , who produce growth hormone but apparently lack sufficient receptors to put it to work . |
| 5 | BR used press campaigns in the early 1980s to put the arguments for higher state support , basing its case on the higher subsidies of other European railways as a percentage of GNP . |
| 6 | Delrina is basing its pitch on the expected low cost of these modems relative to the cost of buying separate facsimile and answering machines , and the large installed base of Windows users with a single phone line who keep finding themselves talking to modems . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In recent years , the Conservative government in Britain has increasingly been able to impose its agenda on the nationalized industries , including the railways . |
| 9 | Ecotopia turns its back on the capitalist treadmill of material progress-not by a return to pre-industrial forms and back to nature " but by developing a " high-tech " society that is designed to be compatible with the biosphere . |
| 10 | Mr Zacharopoulos , Documenta IX turns its back on the 1980s . |
| 11 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 12 | Confronted with a bronze picture , we can locate its image on the relevant computer screen and , having read its precise history , proceed to learn about tableware in general , the social system of Pompeii , and even the precise recipes of the time . |
| 13 | In retaliation , Croatia reimposed its blockade on the Borongaj barracks in Zagreb . |
| 14 | Young Group , the open cast coal miner that is soon to lose its quote on the unlisted securities market , was a peculiar market . |
| 15 | Leftist Unity is targeting its campaign on the big industrial cities , such as Madrid , Barcelona and Valencia , as well as the region of Andalucia , where centuries of serfdom to the local noblemen have left the working class with a strong streak of radicalism . |
| 16 | The 987 will let HP compete against the whole AS/400 family and gives the company added ammunition to continue its assault on the downsizing mainframe market . |
| 17 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 18 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |
| 19 | A cymbal splashes to the tune of a brandished stick of drum and runs about the auditorium , bashing its head on the available hard surfaces , fastly chased by a bass note from another kind of guitar-mad guitar . |
| 20 | Halfway through , the film loses its grip on the day-to-day reality in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | The government , publishing its reply on the same day , stated that it had no legal liability to pay compensation , rejected the report 's assertions that actions fell short of the standards appropriate to the regulator , and further asserted that the general handling of the licensing of the Barlow Clowes partnership was careful and considerate . |
| 22 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the behaviour of the political parties is itself endogenous and we have to explain the way in which each chooses its position on the political spectrum . |
| 24 | In Asia , such ‘ cultigens ’ include the coconut , which may have had its origin on the Great Barrier Reef , and the mango , the talipot palm , Corypha umbraculifera , its leaves used as writing paper , and the betel nut with narcotic fruits . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The stated objectives of this Union include ‘ to assert its identity on the international scene ’ , ‘ to develop close cooperation on justice and home affairs ’ and to ‘ maintain in full and build upon the acquis communautaire ’ ( i.e. the process by which EEC authority is irreversibly entrenched in any area in which it has once legislated — a principle hitherto unrecognised in law ) . |
| 27 | Rugby hangs its hat on the international game but that 's also where the funds come from for the grass-roots development . |
| 28 | The candle flame threw shadows , like paper-ash , thought Conrad , on to Lee 's face which was tired and childlike and rested its cheek on the pale-lemon linen of the pillow-slip . |
| 29 | Martin Marietta Corp has damaged its credit rating with Standard & Poor 's Corp with its decision to buy General Electric Co 's aerospace unit for about $3,050m , most of it in the form of new debt : the agency cut its rating on the senior debt to single-A from single-A-plus , and affirmed its A-1 commercial paper rating . |
| 30 | Automatic Data Processing Inc , Roseland , New Jersey , has found favour with Standard & Poor 's Corp , which raised its rating on the giant bureau 's subordinated debt to double-A from double-A-minus . |