Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He figures Sun only has price in its corner and claimed Apollo users , the last of the die-hard zealots opposed to Sun on religious grounds , wo n't be budged simply on price . |
| 3 | The commercial company created by Lord Burghersh to run ‘ Sporting Glory ’ and rent the facility went bankrupt , owing money to printers , the V&A ( it has only seen part of its £100,000 rental fee ) and , of course , the backers . |
| 4 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 5 | Poulantzas appeals to Althusser 's theory to resolve the long-standing problem of how to characterise the capitalist state — and in doing so casts light on its power and its limitations . |
| 6 | But the heavy rain has been welcomed by the British Waterways , as a much needed boost for its canals and reservoirs which have been kept low during this year 's long , hot summer . |
| 7 | If it is to feed at all , it has to lower its head , so losing sight of its surroundings . |
| 8 | Agit-poppers constantly castigate pop for its dereliction of duty and its straying from being aligned . |
| 9 | A transfer of a licence can only take place during its currency ( for which see s.30 ) . |
| 10 | Even now , nearly 70 years after its composition , the combination of its lurid story and the highly charged frenzy of its music sharply divides opinion . |
| 11 | Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available ; Smurfit Printing secured the lucrative telephone directory printing contract ; Smurfit architect Brian O'Halloran secured the commission for the controversial corporate headquarters ; business associates Padraic Hasset and John Finnegan were asked to find a site for Telecom headquarters ; Finnegan gave advice on the purchase of the Ballsbridge site ( he also apparently gave advice on its sale to UPH ) and finally Dermot Desmond was commissioned to carry out another privatisation study . |
| 12 | This proclamation was to be read out in towns and other places without delay , in the presence of some ‘ good religious ’ who could read and so bear witness to its authenticity . |
| 13 | The story goes that an angry auto body painter noticed his masking tape only had adhesive along its edges and told the salesman : ‘ Take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it . ’ |
| 14 | David Trippier and Chris Bonnington , the President of the Appeal , warmly congratulated Radox for its presentation of a cheque for £60,000 , the largest single sponsorship ever received by the National Trust for countryside maintenance . |
| 15 | Mr Clark said the NRA already received part of its income by way of a levy on Cheshire County Council which was included in the precept required from all district councils . |
| 16 | The bad news for fans was revealed by guitarist Brian May , who said the group no longer made sense without its vocalist . |
| 17 | If people are treated as though they are ‘ Theory X ’ people , because of management assumptions , ‘ Theory X ’ behaviour will in fact be induced thus confirming management in its beliefs and practices ( eg. ‘ clocking on ’ , time-keeping systems , close supervision and management controls etc ) , ie : ‘ Theory X explains the consequences of a particular managerial strategy ’ . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it is useful to distinguish between our various means of correlation and I make no apology for suggesting another term , just to draw attention to its usefulness as a method . |
| 19 | It is well known , indeed , that Charles Darwin accepted these Lamarckian notions , but what Lamarckism stands for today is the notion that adaptive changes that occur within an animal 's own lifetime somehow are imprinted upon the genome and thus become part of its heritage . |
| 20 | But the railway station has only tardily gained recognition for its contribution both to the railway system in particular and to culture and society in general . |
| 21 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 22 | At the time this was perhaps the most lavishly equipped school of its kind in the UK ( though there were many more lavish examples still in the richer areas of the USA ) but its strength was to be the participation of its library resource centre personnel and the head of resources in the in-service education of the teachers . |
| 23 | The article sent the leading RISC analyst Andrew Allison to his keyboard where he promptly made hash of its arguments . |
| 24 | No , ’ he went on weightily , ‘ not even in the interests of a firm which has always regarded continuity in its staff as of paramount importance to its operation . ’ |
| 25 | With the Rothschild report on the coal industry still gaining currency with its prospect of just 12–14 deep pits , Heseltine will not necessarily be toasted throughout industry . |
| 26 | Building group Raine Industries yesterday declared victory in its takeover bid for fellow builder Walter Lawrence . |
| 27 | On Feb. 10 the Air Force formally handed control of its Condor II missile project to the National Space Activities Commission ( CNAE ) , a new space agency , which would develop the missile 's facilities " for peaceful purposes " . |
| 28 | RR still keeps mum about its power outputs and on performance will only say the Brooklands will do ‘ in excess of 125mph ’ and 0–60mph in ‘ less than 10secs ’ . |
| 29 | Our visitors today , Botham Wanderers , are without a win so far this season and may possibly face liquidation before its end . |
| 30 | The US administration on Oct. 11 , 1989 , formally notified Congress of its intention to sell to Saudi Arabia 315 M1-A1 battlefield tanks at a cost variously reported as between US$700 million and $3,000 million , and the Financial Times of Oct. 3 reported that Saudi Arabia , which was seeking to purchase a total of some 600 tanks to replace its current ageing fleet , was " close to signing a deal " with a Brazilian defence contractor , Engesa , for the acquisition of 300 light weight Osorio tanks . |