Example sentences of "and [verb] its [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE SCOTTISH Milk Marketing Board has bowed to pressure and withdrawn its bid for the Co-op 's Scottish milk business . |
| 2 | But the wavelength multiplied by the frequency is always equal to the velocity of light , so this decrease in wavelength has the result at the same time of increasing the frequency v. Inevitably we thereby increase the energy carried by a single photon and make its interaction with the electron correspondingly more rumbustious ( with the effect of increasing the degree of uncontrollable disturbance to its momentum ) . |
| 3 | Big Bill A Labour peer has put forward 400 amendments to the Maastrich Treaty Bill to try and slow its progress through the Lords Star better : Coronation Street star Lynne Perrie , 62 , who plays Ivy Brennan , is improving in a Salford hospital after collapsing four days ago . |
| 4 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 5 | IBM Corp significantly stepped up its efforts in the merchant semiconductor market late Monday when it announced that it is now sampling the PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor , with production volumes shipping in the third quarter , and announced its entry into the application specific market with CMOS and BiCMOS process technologies and access to industry-standard ASIC design tools and new applications support services , aiming to deliver ASICs based on gate-array and standard-cell technologies for computer and other systems manufacturers . |
| 6 | And raise its head across the world , |
| 7 | ‘ A Clinton presidency will be extremely beneficial for the university , and raise its profile in the States , ’ he said . |
| 8 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 9 | Player ( ) has a one period life and receives its payoff at the end of its period of existence . |
| 10 | He has shot a large moth and pinned its body to the ceiling . |
| 11 | The Hungarians reacted by calling for an emergency meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE ) and submitting its case to the International Court of Justice . |
| 12 | Though the fundamentals of cash planning remained , the Treasury had to adapt and refine its strategy through the 1980s in response to the pressure it was under to remain ahead of the game ( Thain and Wright , 1990 ) . |
| 13 | At Hinde House this team of teachers was selected by the staff and centred its attention on the transition from middle schools to the secondary sector and the curriculum which should be provided in the Y8 group . |
| 14 | She sighed , then twisted on her stool to gaze in astonishment because a car was thumping and crashing its way along the dirt road that led from the island 's one village to Bonefish 's sprawl of shacks . |
| 15 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 16 | It is ‘ only ’ 26 times as luminous as the Sun , and owes its pre-eminence to the fact that it is a mere 8½ light-years away from us . |
| 17 | The assumption , which the project sets out to test , is that the State is increasingly withdrawing from the business of providing services but strengthening and widening its role as the regulator of services produced by others in the private and voluntary sectors . |
| 18 | The most famous tin-glazed pottery of Spain was lustre pottery ; it was also exported and found its way into the wealthy households of medieval Europe . |
| 19 | A squall of rain hit the little window with a noise like hailstones and found its way down the chimney , hissing on the coals . |
| 20 | It became unsafe and found its way between the wars to Newton . |
| 21 | It was an artistic and cultural centre as well as a commercial one and retained its importance until the rise of Moscow in the fifteenth century . |
| 22 | This chapter has considered the important topic of money : we examined the definition of money , its functions and traced its evolution from the days of the goldsmiths . |
| 23 | This was reorganised and changed its title in the following year , and again in May 1918 : like its British counterparts it drew its manpower from a variety of sources — the universities , the army and the professions — as well as from diplomacy . |
| 24 | However , the company had adopted a new accounting policy on the treatment of exploration and development expenditure and changed its year-end to the calendar year used by the industry for exploration budgets and profits cover just nine months , against 12 last time . |
| 25 | It was in September 1908 that the club moved to rented premises in Store Street and changed its name to the National Deaf Club and opened its membership to deaf people of whatever school , not just oralist . |
| 26 | The first European Formula 3000 Championship was staged in 1985 and changed its name to the F.I.A . |
| 27 | The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing . |
| 28 | Mistakes of this sort made the movement many enemies and hastened its demise to the fairground , and having one 's bumps read for sixpence . |
| 29 | Handel wrote his Messiah in under a month and directed its premiere from the organ . |
| 30 | GM has sold off its UK truck operations and reduced its holding in the Bedford van plant . |