Example sentences of "[to-vb] its [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 2 | On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment . |
| 3 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 5 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 6 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
| 7 | Social work has begun to evaluate its effectiveness in the last fifty years , and Sheldon ( 1986 ) has described two separate waves of reviews and researches . |
| 8 | With its object-oriented NeXTstep environment , the NeXT Computer System from NeXT Computer Inc is an obvious early port of call for object database vendors and Versant Object Technology Corp has announced plans to put its database on the NeXT line . |
| 9 | THE CUP success of Middlesbrough Football Club has forced the nearby Cleveland Park greyhound stadium to switch its racenights over the next three weeks . |
| 10 | I will ask ‘ Spokes ’ to sing its praises in the next newsletter . |
| 11 | The failure of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party — PCI ) to hold its position as the second electoral force was unprecedented in any post-war elections of comparable scope . |
| 12 | An sure enough , last year Heinz had to withdraw its sponsorship of the second Green Shopping Day at the last minute amid a storm of publicity over its tuna fishing methods , which were allegedly killing dolphins . |
| 13 | Other measures were announced which it was hoped would enable the Russian government to balance its budget in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 14 | Analysts believe that the central bank , which cut interest rates by 1 percentage point last week in an attempt to stem the rise of the escudo , may be prepared to remove its barriers over the next few weeks if rate cuts staunch the flow of hot money into Lisbon . |
| 15 | In September 1964 a special meeting of the corporation finance committee , which included all councillors , adopted an amended motion which gave the boundary extension subcommittee the power to include in its remit the progressive expansion of Derry , so as to maintain its position as the second city in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | The failure is said to have its origins in the second half of the nineteenth century when a number of changes were taking place in the structure of British domestic banking , and in the nature of corporate ownership . |
| 17 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
| 18 | A hospital for pensioners that opened almost a hundred years ago is about to close its doors for the last time . |
| 19 | It could be argued that the best way of dealing with attempted suicide would be to prevent its occurrence in the first place ; but this is not an easy task , and one that often extends beyond the reach of the clinician . |
| 20 | The definitive chassis , designed by Englishman Tony Southgate , is expected to make its debut in the last two WSC races this year . |
| 21 | All three are [ in different degrees ] illusions , which make the weight of life bearable — to those of sufficient stature to feel its weight in the first place . |