Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] its [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plastic card investment : Barclays Bank looks set to tighten its stranglehold on the processing of plastic card transactions and will invest more than £22.5m in the service . |
| 2 | The Gulf crisis illustrated the continuing implacable hostility between Cuba and the USA , as the former attempted to use its position on the UN Security Council to impede the US-led campaign against Iraq [ see pp. 37695 ; 37870 ] . |
| 3 | In recent years , the Conservative government in Britain has increasingly been able to impose its agenda on the nationalized industries , including the railways . |
| 4 | It was also discovered at Warwick that , if we dislike an aroma , we are able to block its effect on the central nervous system . |
| 5 | The research aims to investigate the effect of new development on the housing market and in particular to evaluate its impact on the price structure of specific property types . |
| 6 | The government was anxious to maintain its hold on the energy industry while a national energy plan was being drawn up for 1992 and with a post-1992 liberalization of the power supply market in mind . |
| 7 | The second full week of the election campaign has begun with Labour concentrating its firepower on the issue of unemployment . |
| 8 | Eager to lessen its dependence on the highly regulated and increasingly competitive British telecoms market , BT has been struggling to turn itself into a ‘ one-stop-shop ’ provider of global telecoms services for multinationals . |