Example sentences of "[be] [verb] its [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of Swiss researchers , however , has been focusing its efforts on the self-replication of closed , spherical structures by developing a so-called ‘ autopoietic ’ system . |
| 2 | The commission would be given its objectives by the Government and would be accountable to it . |
| 3 | Essex Rivers Healthcare health promotion unit will be opening its doors on the day and will welcome smokers wanting advice on how to give up the habit . |
| 4 | Ron and Julia are the last couple to be married in the 160-year-old church , which will be closing its doors at the end of June . |
| 5 | IXI managing director , Ray Anderson , says his company is girding its loins for the ‘ mother of all battles ’ as it seeks to drive into Sun Microsystems Inc turf armed with X.desktop over OSF/Motif . |
| 6 | Taking the initiative BMK is revamping its products with the launch of new ranges and major changes to its established products . |
| 7 | LABOUR 'S biggest backer is slashing its donations to the parliamentary party by a third to £1 million . |
| 8 | The normal tendency of such a ‘ preparation ’ ( biologists ' speak for an animal to which they have done something nasty , akin to the use of the term ‘ sacrifice , that I commented on earlier ) is to extend its legs into the liquid bath . |
| 9 | Ilog SA , the french engineering software specialist , is expanding its operations to the UK starting up Ilog Ltd , Guilford , Surrey , to provide maintenance and support for its UK users . |
| 10 | The practice of the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ) is to confine its judgments to the facts of the instant case . |
| 11 | The Frank Cooper Marmalade Shop , which forever linked the name Oxford with marmalade , is closing its doors for the last time . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the Serious Fraud Squad is continuing its investigations into the company 's affairs . |
| 13 | An RAF board of inquiry is continuing its investigations into the fire . |
| 14 | He can take no more pleasure from a second initiative that is making its rounds on the Hill . |
| 15 | Any suspicion that the German company is lowering its sights with the 518i is quickly snuffed out by the introduction of two new six-cylinder engines introduced at the 1990 Motor Show . |
| 16 | Increasingly the profession is extending its activities in the wider financial services sector and also within the European Community . |
| 17 | But now the Honeybourne factory is pinning its hopes on the Goodman HDS 1200 . |
| 18 | Sefton is pinning its hopes on the town 's regeneration through funds from City Challenge . |
| 19 | French software house , Softeam SA , Montigny is putting its products on the American market : Objecteering is a CASE tool that automatically generates C++ applications from the company 's Class Relation object-oriented model . |
| 20 | One way of assessing the government 's radical intent is to examine its policies towards the provision of private health care . |
| 21 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the Conservative Party was regrouping its forces after the defeat of 1945 , building up better-organised and larger constituency parties and reorganising its ideology . |
| 23 | Chalker said , however , that the Sudanese government was evading its responsibilities in the organization of the relief operation . |
| 24 | According to the report , a commission in charge of the negotiations with political parties , chaired by Finance Minister Enoch Ruhigira , was focusing its discussions on the distribution of Cabinet posts , including that of prime minister , between political parties . |
| 25 | It is particularly interesting in the way that it counters the widely held view that Los Alamos was dragging its feet over the development of the Super even after the presidential directive in early 1950 for a crash programme towards producing a hydrogen weapon . |
| 26 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 27 | He said that his department was concentrating its activities on the investigation in hand , for the time being . |