Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] its [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a month later , on 25 November 1944 , The Soldier 's Tale was successfully given its premiere by the Ballet Club at the Alhambra , Cape Town . |
| 2 | Reference to the production history of Falcon s/n 157 will confirm that the aircraft eventually found its way into the Canadian Armed Forces ( designated " CC117 " ) , where it was operated by the Airborne Sensing Unit ( ASU ) , from Uplands CFB , Ottawa , Ontario . |
| 3 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |
| 4 | Vast amounts of money were made through Cornish tin but very little found its way to the tinners themselves . |
| 5 | Israel had announced in October that it would attend the Ottawa talks , thereby ending its boycott of the multilateral refugee negotiations [ see p. 39167 for Israeli participation in multilateral regional economic co-operation talks in Paris in late October ] . |
| 6 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 7 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 8 | Weak on aesthetics it undoubtedly is , and yet curiously it is the only book on drama in education lucky enough to find its way into the impressive bibliography of the 1982 Calouste Gulbenkian publication on the Arts in Schools . |
| 9 | Government has not only turned its attention to the professions as economic entities , but in the 1980s adopted an increasingly dirigiste approach to higher education . |
| 10 | Its social cohesion was no stronger than that of an isolated nineteenth-century English village , and in the long run its solidarity against the outside world could neither defeat class conflict nor evade the power of the centralizing state . |
| 11 | This view of language brings philology to life for Julia ; she suddenly sees its object as the product of individual creativity . |
| 12 | Sam Rollins takes a miniaturized listening device from his shirt pocket and gently attaches its sucker to the phone . |
| 13 | This mineralizes and fertilizes the flood plains below , as it slowly and inexorably finds its way to the sea . |
| 14 | The UN General Assembly annually reiterates its recognition of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) , which was formed in June 1982 and which comprises three organizations opposed to the Phnom Penh regime , namely ( i ) the Party of Democratic Kampuchea ( the Khmers Rouges ) , the leading members of which had headed , under Pol Pot , the universally reviled government of Democratic Kampuchea between 1975-79 ; ( ii ) the Armée nationale sihanoukiste ( ANS ) , headed by a former ruler of the Kingdom of Cambodia , Prince Norodom Sihanouk ; and ( iii ) the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) led by Son Sann , a former Prime Minister under Sihanouk . |
| 15 | The Christian World noted in 1882 , ‘ The great wave of Catholic sentiment which has been sweeping over the Established Church … has sensibly cast its spray over the Nonconformist bodies of the country ’ . |
| 16 | ( More traditional pedagogy went for appreciation rather than analysis , urging the reader to a direct experience of the poem , perhaps inhaling its beauty like the scent of a flower ; but the underlying process was similar . ) |
| 17 | Finally , while the agricultural industry has greatly increased its productivity since the end of the war , it has accomplished this with a much diminished labour force . |
| 18 | Hirtle ( 1975 : 124 ) makes this successivity explicit when he diagrams his analysis of modal will in At one o'clock they will eat lunch : The role of will is described as that of " keeping the infinitive beyond the stretch of time containing the present of actual consciousness " and so situating its event in the future . |
| 19 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 20 | The family had obviously taken its name from the land-holding and at some stage this was likely to have been written as de Forstershey , or something very similar . |
| 21 | They joined it , left it , joined it again , but only to oppose its acceptance of the war . |
| 22 | One turns out to be the Greek Revival Sheriff Courthouse ( 1841 ) in the centre of Glasgow , which is an unprecedented gesture on the part of this Edinburgh-based institution towards is traditional rival , Glasgow , the rough-tough merchant city which has so improved its image over the last ten years through an enlightened cultural policy . |
| 23 | VICHY Vive l'histoire Is France finally accepting its part in the holocaust , asks Lucy Wadham |
| 24 | The Trees had crossed half of the floor now and the nearest one — Fenella could see now that it had been a Larch , elegant and slender — was already inching its way across the slimy black pool of the Melanisms , creating a kind of bridge . |
| 25 | There was a wind blowing , clearing the sky of cloud wrack , and a pale moon was already inching its way above the brows of the hills . |
| 26 | Lindsey watched in fascination as the taxi laboriously made its way along the rising curve of the road taking them into the hills . |
| 27 | Young Group , the open cast coal miner that is soon to lose its quote on the unlisted securities market , was a peculiar market . |
| 28 | In the same way that African opinion elsewhere found its voice in the press , so also did white settler opinion ‘ which was frequently in conflict with the colonial authority . |
| 29 | The railway companies built stations to accommodate passengers who never materialized , to flatter a vanity which was shortly to meet its fall in the face of both economic recession and the rise of alternative modes of transportation . |
| 30 | The essence of the balance sheet is that the sum of the fixed and current assets shall equal the capital employed , thus explaining its use in the company . |