Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] its [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After completing its work on the Newsom Report , the Central Advisory Council was reconstituted under the chairmanship of Lady Plowden , and turned its attention to primary schools . |
| 2 | Fokker is negotiating with Lockheed to assemble aircraft in America : this would bring Lockheed back into the commercial business , which it quit in 1981 after losing its shirt with the TriStar . |
| 3 | Although Burda talks of maintaining its share of the upper end of the periodicals market this has been interpreted as a delaying tactic , to allow the magazine to bow out gracefully . |
| 4 | ‘ A very challenging and exciting time lies ahead for Magnus and I am confident of maintaining its position as the ‘ investors ’ choice . |
| 5 | in the course of that business acquired his interest in the article or substance supplied to the customer as a means of financing its acquisition by the customer from a third person ( ‘ the effective supplier ’ ) , |
| 6 | If the horse is to be trailered , it should first have some experience of eating its dinner in the trailer . |
| 7 | But last March AMD stole a tenth of this market within months of launching its version of the 386 , and now claims almost a third . |
| 8 | Thus Tsarism did show signs of establishing its power after the 1905 revolution . |
| 9 | I shall wish to see records of all dealings since the last formal audit , to ascertain the group 's cash position and to form an opinion of its prospects of meeting its debt to the bank within reasonable time . |
| 10 | At the subsequent party conference the National Executive made a point of reasserting its adherence to the electoral truce . |
| 11 | Since the early 1960s , the BBC has therefore aimed to reach a 50% share of the total audience as a means of supporting its claim to the licence fee and of ensuring its continued survival . |
| 12 | The Cottage in the Wood Hotel , Malvern Wells , Hereford & Worcester , can not be accused of burying its head in the sand with its decision to introduce South African ostrich to its à la carte lunch and dinner menu . |
| 13 | Other pictures took the place of these ; Neil 's tent , not far up the brae , and the possibility not only , at worst , of having its shelter for the night , but of my seeing from that vantage point when Neil came back with his boat . |
| 14 | Given the growth in his ordinary income and the difficulty of estimating its size in the early years of his reign , it would not be very useful to work out an average of the total revenue over the whole reign . |
| 15 | The main point of this section , however , is that almost all the life on Earth that we are aware of derives its energy from the Sun , via the process of photosynthesis . |
| 16 | The infant learns to talk of hearing its mother in the garden , smelling hamburgers cooking in the kitchen , or seeing the dog enjoying itself with a ball or being hurt by the cat . |
| 17 | This means , as Rodolphe Gasché observes , that ‘ the mimicry of totality and of the pretension to systematicity is an inseparable element of deconstruction , one of the very conditions of finding its foothold within the logic being deconstructed ’ . |
| 18 | Certainly at that time it was accepted that a political career was likely to be an advantage for a barrister aspiring to a judgeship , though it was important that his seat should be safe , as no government would wish to run the possibility of diminishing its strength in the House . |
| 19 | Hand signals can be developed to a greater extent to train a dog which is deaf , although there is always the problem of attracting its attention in the first instance , particularly if it runs off . |
| 20 | An Occidental spokesman claims that the government has repeatedly tried to cover up the Army 's role for fear of diluting its case against the company and having to admit some federal responsibility for the situation . |
| 21 | Lawson Software Inc , Minneapolis , which despite dipping its toe into the Unix market has hitherto concentrated on the AS/400 as the platform for its financial and distribution software , is to launch its new ‘ Open Enterprise ’ range of software during the first week of February . |
| 22 | Only by refusing all compromise and inviting martyrdom could the NCF hope to sabotage the workings of the Military Service Act and shock the public into reconsidering its support for the war . |
| 23 | For instance , how valid are the company 's assumptions about : customer sensitivity to price changes ( price elasticity of demand ) ; the effectiveness of its advertising in stimulating customer demand , and in maintaining its share of the total market ; the relationship of per capita real income to demand for its products ( for instance , people with increasing incomes tend to eat a wider variety of foodstuffs than hitherto , yet their per capita expenditure on food tends to decline as a proportion of their total personal expenditure ) . |
| 24 | In bringing its fight to the streets of New York , Virgin also hope to win an injunction restraining B A. B A say there 's no basis for the claim . |
| 25 | After plummeting more than 60 points on Tuesday , the Dow Jones index fell another 50 points in early trading yesterday before recovering its poise in the afternoon and closing 32.20 lower at 3181.35 . |
| 26 | The State Department is pleased the Turkish government is not letting the legal costs deter it from pursuing its claim to the Lydian hoard . |
| 27 | It would be able to cut costs and raise capital for investment in building its share of the market . |
| 28 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
| 29 | In this sense , the DUP has succeeded in establishing its view of the constitutional crisis and the proper reactions to it . |
| 30 | BP is to spend $340 million in developing its share of the first phase of the Mars oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico . |