Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Zurich Festival in June has taken its place among the mos highly regarded events of its kind in Europe . |
| 2 | He figures Sun only has price in its corner and claimed Apollo users , the last of the die-hard zealots opposed to Sun on religious grounds , wo n't be budged simply on price . |
| 3 | The committee already had prematurely exalted views of its importance , for it deferred to the next meeting the question of how to apply to the King for royal patronage — patronage of an institution which had no actual existence . |
| 4 | Poulantzas appeals to Althusser 's theory to resolve the long-standing problem of how to characterise the capitalist state — and in doing so casts light on its power and its limitations . |
| 5 | At the moment , the establishment of a branch tends to require less documentation , formality and cost , while a subsidiary has the advantage of being a separate legal personality , with the result that disclosure requirements may not apply to the parent , and the subsidiary 's debts will not necessarily become obligations of its parent in the event of insolvency . |
| 6 | Agit-poppers constantly castigate pop for its dereliction of duty and its straying from being aligned . |
| 7 | A transfer of a licence can only take place during its currency ( for which see s.30 ) . |
| 8 | Jordanhill also gives priority to students from sparsely populated areas in its hostel ; offers a Gaelic option in its Primary Diploma course and is associated with the Western Isles Bilingual Project . |
| 9 | Even now , nearly 70 years after its composition , the combination of its lurid story and the highly charged frenzy of its music sharply divides opinion . |
| 10 | Univel Inc was down taking pictures for its scrapbook of the first editions of UnixWare coming off the production line last week . |
| 11 | D&B 's European operation only reached 80% of its profit target although UK profits were up 25% in 1992 on sales that rose 17% to £32.4m . |
| 12 | Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available ; Smurfit Printing secured the lucrative telephone directory printing contract ; Smurfit architect Brian O'Halloran secured the commission for the controversial corporate headquarters ; business associates Padraic Hasset and John Finnegan were asked to find a site for Telecom headquarters ; Finnegan gave advice on the purchase of the Ballsbridge site ( he also apparently gave advice on its sale to UPH ) and finally Dermot Desmond was commissioned to carry out another privatisation study . |
| 13 | This proclamation was to be read out in towns and other places without delay , in the presence of some ‘ good religious ’ who could read and so bear witness to its authenticity . |
| 14 | Ford placed enormous faith in its tiny Zig and Zag concept cars and so did GM with its Impact electric two-seater . |
| 15 | It is not impossible that , if the enclosure was abandoned in the withdrawal of the Roman army from Britain , civilians might have moved in to take advantage of its protection . |
| 16 | David Trippier and Chris Bonnington , the President of the Appeal , warmly congratulated Radox for its presentation of a cheque for £60,000 , the largest single sponsorship ever received by the National Trust for countryside maintenance . |
| 17 | Would streptomycin have become available if the example of penicillin had not given impetus to its investigation ? |
| 18 | Mr Clark said the NRA already received part of its income by way of a levy on Cheshire County Council which was included in the precept required from all district councils . |
| 19 | Despite the imposition of price controls , his government could not win acceptance for its pay restraint policy on the part of the TUC . |
| 20 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 21 | This may not have been immediately obvious from the results of the 1935 General Election , for the Party had only just accepted Attlee as its leader on the eve of the election . |
| 22 | The bad news for fans was revealed by guitarist Brian May , who said the group no longer made sense without its vocalist . |
| 23 | Next morning she woke from an intense dream , and did not dare wonder about its meaning . |
| 24 | It will be the most modern in Britain and one of the best equipped centres of its size in the world . ’ |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it is useful to distinguish between our various means of correlation and I make no apology for suggesting another term , just to draw attention to its usefulness as a method . |
| 26 | As a consequence , section 39 is useless because the council will not move people off its land . |
| 27 | If a country does not have control over its tax and expenditure , then it can not be said to have control over anything , since everything comes down to money in the end . |
| 28 | Why not call repression by its name ? |
| 29 | It is well known , indeed , that Charles Darwin accepted these Lamarckian notions , but what Lamarckism stands for today is the notion that adaptive changes that occur within an animal 's own lifetime somehow are imprinted upon the genome and thus become part of its heritage . |
| 30 | The charity does not pay tax on its income . |