Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] its [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp made its debut at the National Association of Broadcasters Exhibition with its Ultimedia Tools Series , an integrated suite of over 60 software tools . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the Czechoslovak government has allocated a budget to promote its position on the dam abroad . |
| 3 | This has given time for the ‘ marked ’ isotope to work its way through the environment much more thoroughly than in Turin . |
| 4 | The latter case found its way on the front page of the Sunday People under the headline BEAUTY QUEEN 'S LIFE OF CRIME Terrorised wife 's story . |
| 5 | The route has its intake in the Gaza Strip , which is occupied territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 6 | Her caring approach on the course has its background in the golfing upbringing she had from her father , Bill Kratzert , who , like her husband and her brother , is a professional . |
| 7 | Given the miserable legislative record of the Duma and its manifest inability to impose its will on the government , the policy of clinging to the Duma in the hope that popular respect for the Russian parliament would grow proved vain . |
| 8 | Arguments of this kind normally started from the assumption that the powers of Europe were still in a ‘ state of nature ’ with respect to each other and that each of them was engaged , consciously or not , in a ceaseless struggle to increase its influence at the expense of its neighbours . |
| 9 | This image of the male owes its origin to the writings of the great historian Herodotus , following his visit to ancient Egypt two and a half thousand years ago . |
| 10 | • Ropeable Lotus dealers in the US were after Lotus boss Michael Kimberley 's blood after the Lotus-badged Bertone Emotion made its debut at the Detroit show earlier this year . |
| 11 | EVERY year the Northern Region Councils Association produces its State of the Region report . |
| 12 | During a series of pre-conference meetings between members of the government-in-exile and its critics , the government reportedly agreed to restore the original 1962 constitution in return for an undertaking by the opposition to affirm its loyalty to the ruling dynasty . |
| 13 | There were workmen on the scaffolding and , down at the bottom , a small boat nudging its way along the length of the works . |
| 14 | On Jan. 9 , 1990 , the US administration announced its support for the restoration of World Bank loans to China which met " basic human needs " ; the International Herald Tribune reported on Jan. 13 that this covered about $2,000 million of the $7,000 million sought by the World Bank . |
| 15 | And it evinces a rather daring readiness to weave its fiction around the world of work , where private lives are inextricably bound up with talk of profit margins and raw materials . |
| 16 | His great black horse made its way through the crowd of menservants until he came alongside the princess 's window . |
| 17 | The new groups who were in the charts , even as the British Task Force made its way across the Atlantic — Duran Duran , ABC , Spandau Ballet — suggested that , of all things , fun was once again back in fashion . |
| 18 | The blizzard was worse now , and what little light made its way between the flakes was failing . |
| 19 | A cold grey light made its way round the corners of the curtains and trickled into the room . |
| 20 | I remember that between a death and the subsequent funeral the street would be very quiet , pianos were locked , children were not allowed to play anywhere near the house and on the day of interment , all blinds were drawn , whilst as the cortege made its way to the Cemetery people would stop , the men always removing headgear . |
| 21 | The aristocratic disdain for manual labour has its counterpart in the Situationist ’ attitude to the working class considered as the moronised victims of the spectacle . |
| 22 | The idea seemed too melodramatically absurd , until I recalled that all melodrama has its basis in the lurid facts of earlier generations . |
| 23 | An exciting implication , by analogy with certain tumour cells that express Lewis-X and metastasize to the lungs and liver ( the two major systemic organs through which schistosomes migrate ) , is that this sugar provides a means for the parasite to find its way around the host . |
| 24 | In 1968 the Commission responded to requests from industry to indicate its view of the application of the competition rules to cooperation between enterprises by issuing a formal Notice . |
| 25 | The football chant articulates its tradition to the specific interests of team supporters and soccer gangs . |
| 26 | Suddenly , I see a boat weaving its way between the improbable pink granite rocks and I experience both relief and excitement . |
| 27 | The solar wind loses its identity in the interstellar medium at a distance no less than that of the outer planets . |
| 28 | Described by his owner-trainer as ‘ a long , leeky , plain-looking horse ’ , Norton 's Coin ambled along quietly while the fan club squeaked its excitement at the appearance of Desert Orchid , striding jauntily around the parade ring and clearly eager to get on with the business . |
| 29 | In this wintery scene of January 1979 , a lonely red and cream car ploughs its way through the snow and ice to Starr Gate . |
| 30 | On Dec. 18 Bush instructed the department to reverse its decision on the grounds that it contradicted his stated intention to increase educational opportunities for minorities . |