Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] its [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At the conference in Ottawa the Soviet government appeared to soften its position on the question of a united Germany 's military alignment . |
| 3 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 4 | In 1799 parliament had pronounced its opinion on the illegality of trade unionism and this was part of an atmosphere in which courts were expected to find against it . |
| 5 | But modern marketing had laid its hand on the old tap-room . |
| 6 | Thus Cuba , which for nearly half a century had run its economy on the basis of near-total reliance on the United States , was faced with the need to find a new market for 700,000 tonnes of sugar and an alternative source of oil supplies . |
| 7 | ( The CPCz had reversed its position on the invasion in December 1989 — see p. 37106 . ) |
| 8 | Junod , it will be recalled , proposed that the maternal uncle 's indulgent behaviour was to be explained by an earlier matrilineal ( or ‘ matri-archal ’ ) phase which had left its mark on the now formally patriarchal BaThonga . |
| 9 | Later , as the aircraft swooped down over many of the fields that were so familiar to me in my detecting rambles around the countryside , I soon realised that the weather had taken its toll on the cropmarks . |
| 10 | Jordan hoped to recover its position on the West Bank , paying subsidies for loyalty and continuing functional co-operation with Israel , as if the growth of political awareness in the area could not only be contained but diminished . |
| 11 | The Mexican environmentalist organisation , Group of 100 , has attacked an article in the newspaper , Excelsior , which claimed that the group had changed its position on the international embargo on Mexican tuna . |
| 12 | But he had to reformulate its strategy on the run . |
| 13 | Police sources said China had doubled its patrol on the border . |
| 14 | The debate on these options in Whitehall was one-sided , because the RAF wanted to maintain its hold on the deterrent and the Navy was still uncertain about what effect a take-over bid would have on the future size and shape of the Fleet . |