Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] its [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plastic card investment : Barclays Bank looks set to tighten its stranglehold on the processing of plastic card transactions and will invest more than £22.5m in the service . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Each of these has its effect on the difficulty of reading and interpreting the data , but not always in a highly predictable way . |
| 4 | The Foundation 's Annual Report for 1946 outlined its policy on the aged poor : ‘ As machines replace muscles as the motive force , the possibilities of extending useful employment could bring new purpose and new hope to those who have reluctantly accustomed themselves to being a burden ’ ( p. 47 ) In that year the Foundation founded the Nuffield Research Unit into Problems of Ageing , at the University of Cambridge , with the purpose of studying ‘ those changes of human performance in middle and old age likely to have a bearing upon capacity for work in industry ’ ( Nuffield Foundation 1953b : 160 ) , a ten-year project . |
| 5 | The Gulf crisis illustrated the continuing implacable hostility between Cuba and the USA , as the former attempted to use its position on the UN Security Council to impede the US-led campaign against Iraq [ see pp. 37695 ; 37870 ] . |
| 6 | In recent years , the Conservative government in Britain has increasingly been able to impose its agenda on the nationalized industries , including the railways . |
| 7 | It was also discovered at Warwick that , if we dislike an aroma , we are able to block its effect on the central nervous system . |
| 8 | The research aims to investigate the effect of new development on the housing market and in particular to evaluate its impact on the price structure of specific property types . |
| 9 | The public survey echoed the journalists ' views on British companies — but only one in 20 thought ICI was doing enough to reduce its effect on the environment . |
| 10 | Mr Zacharopoulos , Documenta IX turns its back on the 1980s . |
| 11 | The imperial family is doing its best to put its stamp on the future princess . |
| 12 | The government was anxious to maintain its hold on the energy industry while a national energy plan was being drawn up for 1992 and with a post-1992 liberalization of the power supply market in mind . |
| 13 | The second full week of the election campaign has begun with Labour concentrating its firepower on the issue of unemployment . |
| 14 | Eager to lessen its dependence on the highly regulated and increasingly competitive British telecoms market , BT has been struggling to turn itself into a ‘ one-stop-shop ’ provider of global telecoms services for multinationals . |