Example sentences of "on its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four-car Networker electric trains being introduced by Network SouthEast on its Kent commuter lines are £3m each . |
| 2 | On its Edinburgh site it holds a living collection of around 30000 accessions ; a Herbarium containing some 2 million dried plant specimens from a world-wide range ; and a research library holding 75000 volumes books and over 1500 current scientific periodical titles . |
| 3 | The company 's ability to adapt to new opportunities and capitalize on them depends on its capacity to share information and involve everyone in the organization in a systemwide search for ways to improve , adjust , adapt , and upgrade . |
| 4 | Altering the location at which the rat is put into the tank is almost without effect on its capacity to find the shelf . |
| 5 | The worth of any people depends on its capacity to do this . |
| 6 | His perspective was that in 1942 — unlike in 1940 — his movement no longer depended exclusively on the support of its allies or on its capacity to rally French overseas territories . |
| 7 | The software is used by Reuter on its Triarch 2000 system . |
| 8 | But , as director Peter Wilson points out , a play demanding 10 actors , three sets and several costume changes is ‘ too big to tour ’ these days unless , of course , you have the backing of Mobil , who 've spent £1m on its touring theatre since 1986 . |
| 9 | Kelburn , Dean and Culzean Castles have been developed as country parks with visitor centres , and each of them reflects credit on its owners as well as adding to the attractions of the county . |
| 10 | A scolded cat often turns its back on its owners and haughtily refuses to look at them . |
| 11 | So why does a company with such a history of agility and skill remain tied to pots and pans even though they act as such a drag on its performance ? |
| 12 | In these circumstances the department will be potentially vulnerable to subjective ( and possibly erroneous ) views on its performance . |
| 13 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 14 | Likud had portrayed the elections as a test of political strength and was disappointed with the result although it improved slightly on its performance in the last elections in 1985 [ see p. 34008 ] . |
| 15 | Over on its west , the modest yeoman 's house of Strawberry Hole nestles in an undulating pastoral farmscape ; further inwards , the timber-framed fifteenth-century manor house of Great Dixter hides behind an Edwardian rebuilding , and , not far from the parish church , stands Brickwall . |
| 16 | The Pompidou Arts Centre is to renovate the ‘ piazza ’ , the sloping cobbled forecourt on its west side , as part of director Dominique Bozo 's policy of reconsidering all the aesthetic and technical problems of the institution . |
| 17 | Another way of looking at a site is to concentrate on its plan , and to see how this changes with time . |
| 18 | The Commission also failed on June 26 , 1991 , to obtain agreement on its plan to introduce a statutory minimum of 14 weeks ' fully paid maternity leave for pregnant women . |
| 19 | In discussions of the recent Italian novel , however , most attention has been focused on its treatment not of the future , but of the past . |
| 20 | As we indicate to the general assembly in the printed report , the Board could have insisted on its rights under contract made with those bodies and the Board was confident that it would have won any action in the courts . |
| 21 | Saussure 's answer is that the function of the sign depends exclusively on its relationship with , or more exactly its difference from , other signs . |
| 22 | This occupation has had little influence on its size . |
| 23 | This is not proof in itself that our ancestors were more intelligent than we are : it seems that the ability of a brain depends less on its size than on the extent of its complexity , as epitomized by the degree of crenulation ( folding ) on its exterior . |
| 24 | The organisation of a hotel will depend on its size and type . |
| 25 | The time taken to retrieve or return an entry is dependent firstly on its size . |
| 26 | The study , commissioned by the Association of County Councils ( ACC ) , discussed the implications of an allocation of responsibilities within a county that varies from district to district depending on its size . |
| 27 | The shape of a crater depends on its size . |
| 28 | Each organization or agency has its own lending criteria and the eligibility of a specific project will depend on its size , purpose and sponsors . |
| 29 | From the adult point of view , the child has failed to conserve number , apparently failing to appreciate that the spatial rearrangement of a set has no effect on its numerosity . |
| 30 | I have remarked on its dominance in Oxford English , and a generation ago it was given magisterial expression in Northrop Frye 's Anatomy of Criticism , which aspired to a ‘ scientific ’ criticism where there would be no place for evaluation , since it is not nobler to study stars than earthworms . |