Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] its [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the night of Oct. 4-5 small-scale fighting occurred in the capital , Kigali , but the RPF failed to consolidate its position beyond the north-eastern area . |
| 2 | His difficult relations with Roosevelt only confirmed his realist 's intuition that , beneath its idealistic rhetoric , the United States planned to establish its domination throughout the non-communist world . |
| 3 | UNITED Biscuits , the food conglomerate , yesterday moved to tighten its grip on the UK snacks market with the £24 million takeover of Derwent Valley Food Group , makers of Phileas Fogg snacks . |
| 4 | Expressed in this way , ‘ A Plan for Britain' was symptomatic of a mood of collectivist enthusiasm which seemed to find its opportunity in the shared perils and challenges of the early years of the war . |
| 5 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 6 | No one seemed to question its relevance to the issue in hand . |
| 7 | Rightly called Yoredale in the Middle Ages after the river Ure which flows through it , the dale later came to take its name from the little market town of Wensley , further down the dale . |
| 8 | Her book is not a comprehensive history of English garden design , but a much chancier , though equally delightful narrative depending for its emphasis on what happened to find its way into the collection . |
| 9 | But what if a school wished to ban Sikh girls from wearing trousers , and sought to justify its action with the argument that to create an exception from school rules for Sikhs would cause resentment from whites and thus work to the detriment of racial harmony ? |
| 10 | This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use . |
| 11 | The moment Hungary began to dismantle its part of the Iron Curtain , hundreds began to leave . |
| 12 | Latin began to regain its status as the medium for elegant communication , science was being relegated to ‘ a small , odd , insignificant band of professionals ’ , while the Royal Society , abandoning the rather splendid hope that scientific language could provide a model for cultural discourse , was becoming influenced by dilettantism , and correspondingly less practical in its aims . |
| 13 | However , aid from the United States ceased soon after President Reagan came to office in 1981 and the US administration began to use its influence in the IMF and the World Bank to end any assistance to the Sandinistas . |
| 14 | A YEAR CAME AND a year went and another began to tick its way into the clock of time . |
| 15 | In 1987 it began to turn its attention to the inner urban areas , with the idea of opening small factories , workshops and offices in the hope that private industry would then follow suit . |
| 16 | The oars dipped unhurriedly in the calm water , and when the boat eventually arrived at the shore there was a further infuriating delay before the procession formed up and began making its way round the harbour to Ballingolin . |
| 17 | Mr Grover was as good as his word and on Christmas morning soon after breakfast a very strange procession began making its way from the market . |
| 18 | The Supreme Court , taking heed of the warning , began to drop its opposition to the New Deal . |
| 19 | The DPP members demanded that the National Assembly should not be used to amend the Constitution and claimed that the Kuomintang planned to protect its control of the political system by including undemocratic revisions , including the retention of emergency presidential powers . |
| 20 | The Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , founded in 1922 , decided to change its name to the Popular Socialist Party ( PSP ) at its 10th congress held in January . |
| 21 | After communication with the Comintern , however , a majority of the Party leadership decided to reconsider its attitude to the war , which was declared an " imperialist struggle " to be opposed by the Party . |
| 22 | If Romania was to get cheap credits and access to high-tech goods it needed to prove its credit-worthiness to the prestigious foreign institutions which specialized in economic analysis . |
| 23 | The dramatic counteroffensive by the security forces against the JVP after the capture or death in November 1989 of most of its leadership [ see p. 37042 ] continued during December 1989 and January 1990 as the government sought to reimpose its authority in the south of the country . |
| 24 | At the same time , the European Parliament is considering the document and expected to finish its work by the beginning of July . |
| 25 | The benefits of targeting were seen , for example , in St Helens where the party gained four seats compared with 1986 and managed to keep its share at the level experienced in the days of the Alliance . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it was this detested regime which managed to make its mark in the New World , for the successful urban renewal of Paris combined with the great prestige which the city enjoyed as a centre of art and culture drew to it Americans of all kinds . |
| 27 | The genre of the novel long competed with ‘ the news ’ as a primary means of circulating information about the world , but its advantage as a source of entertainment as well as information failed to maintain its edge over the less demanding oral media of radio and television . |
| 28 | The constitutional crisis was further intensified when , on April 6 , the New Foundland legislature voted to rescind its ratification of the Accord . |
| 29 | Both Weighell and Buckton would have preferred more , but the statement persuaded them that the Government did have its heart in the future of the railway system . |
| 30 | In possibly its shortest annual general meeting on record — a mere 26 minutes — the British Hotels , Restaurants & Caterers Association ( BHRCA ) last week voted to change its name to the British Hospitality Association ( BHA ) . |