Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The explanation was that the vessel had been electrochemically cleaned to remove the worst of the corrosion at some time after its excavation in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The draft contained a preamble put forward by Luxembourg during its presidency in the first half of 1991 [ see pp. 38295-97 ] , which spoke of the EC 's " federal " goal . |
| 3 | The terrace parterre is to be restored to match its appearance during its heyday before the First World War , and an extensive programme of tree planting is under way to replace the losses of recent years . |
| 4 | It did not , as has been claimed , need a Louis XI to act as its midwife in the fifteenth century . |
| 5 | On June 5 the Chart Thai Party voted to retain Chatichai Choonhaven , the exiled former Prime Minister , as its leader until the next general elections . |
| 6 | Univel Inc was down taking pictures for its scrapbook of the first editions of UnixWare coming off the production line last week . |
| 7 | The Law Society today publishes a Strategy for its work in the next three years in the Property and Commercial Services fields . |
| 8 | He told a joint meeting of the authority with Clwyd Family Health Services Association ( FHSA ) in Mold , that the authority will be bidding for its share within the next two weeks . |
| 9 | When I knew it , during the war years , it was occupied by an elderly bachelor who was one of the several mill owners in Witney , the town famed world-wide for its blankets since the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | The Association is grateful to British Gas for its sponsorship of the second edition of this publication which it had , with HCIMA , launched the previous year . |
| 11 | The Loire valley region is especially noted for its châteaux as the fifteenth century court was not yet fixed in Paris and this hunting area was a favoured one for the royal house , who visited loyal subjects in their castle homes . |
| 12 | Sheffield was already known for its knives by the fourteenth century — Chaucer refers to the miller in The Canterbury Tales as carrying a ‘ Sheffield thwitel ’ ( a large knife ) . |
| 13 | An Academic Development Officer was appointed and an Academic Development Committee set up , and in 1971 the Polytechnic was approved by the CNAA as a centre for its awards for the next five years . |
| 14 | He praised LASMO Pakistan for its achievements in the last year , especially the successful gas negotiations on the Kadanwari field [ see page 2 ] and the partnership with Shell in Block 36 , Northern Pakistan . |
| 15 | It 's not possible really to understand Eastern Europe now unless you know a little bit about its history for the last 150 years . ’ |
| 16 | Unisys has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 17 | To cover the glitch Intel Corp has created with Pentium — see front page — Unisys Corp has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 18 | The party as a whole proved the reality of its patriotism from the first days of the war , and the logic of this continuation from peacetime was underlined by the speed with which Ulster Unionists rallied to the flag in 1914 , and the gallantry with which they died on the Somme in 1916 . |
| 19 | The Trustees can take justifiable pride in what has been achieved since the Library 's foundation and particularly in the dramatic expansion of its services in the last few years . |
| 20 | More will be said of its proposals in the next chapter on the houses of the great , but , as a sample of Pugin 's diagnosis , the small print of his satiric illustration , ‘ dedicated , without permission , to THE TRADE ’ , repays examination ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 21 | They are bearing the one-eyed god from some unseen station of its progress to the next . |
| 22 | In a review of its work over the first ten years , its chairman , Lord Justice Sellers , claimed that the two institutions ‘ worked side by side in complete harmony and with some mutual assistance ’ . |
| 23 | Evolution can thus favour apparently ‘ altruistic ’ behaviour which increases the reproductive output of relatives , if this behaviour really does increase the individual 's inclusive fitness — the total representation of its genes in the next generation . |
| 24 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 25 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 26 | He adds , however , that the system should comprise 30% of its billing within the next two months . |
| 27 | The fine Romanesque work remaining at Bredon is an indication of its importance in the twelfth century . |
| 28 | Voices were raised in support of rounding up all foreigners , but the government was unwilling to go the way of its predecessor in the first world war and order a general internment . |
| 29 | The detailed discussion of the review procedure at this meeting and the lengthy minutes devoted to it are in marked contrast to the brevity of its mention in the next meeting , under ‘ matters arising ’ . |
| 30 | Mirror Group has agreed to use up to £300 million of its profits over the next 10 to 20 years so that the pension fund , plundered by Mr Robert Maxwell , will be able to meet all its liabilities . |