Example sentences of "has [verb] its [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wang , the computer company , has stopped its sponsorship of the Leinster senior league competition in protest at the Irish RFU 's links with the South African Rugby Board 's centenary celebrations this summer . |
| 2 | That is illustrated by Rolls-Royce , which has quadrupled its share of the jet engine market since 1987 and , even today , by the news of the British Aerospace section , which has a £13 billion per annum order book and in size is second only to that in the United States . |
| 3 | The point of this brier account of mistake is to show that at least one leading textbook of criminal law has distorted its presentation of the data because of a prior commitment to subjectivism . |
| 4 | Rushing belatedly to launch a Windows edition of 1-2-3 , the firm released a faulty version of the program and the firm has seen its share of the lucrative spreadsheet business slip to 48% . |
| 5 | The East Lancashire Railway has celebrated its receipt of the Steam Heritage Award for their steam crane in the scheme sponsored by the Transport Trust and the ARPS . |
| 6 | The ex-Yugoslav Publishers Association has had its membership of the International Publishers Association suspended . |
| 7 | The Central Statistical Office has reduced its guesstimate of the expected monthly surplus from £300million to £100million , though it stresses the figures are subject to ‘ substantial ’ revision . |
| 8 | The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has reduced its estimate of the annual rate at which tropical forests were cut down during the 1980s . |
| 9 | With the recent purchase of the lighting interests of Britain 's Thorn EMI , it has increased its share of the European market tenfold , from 2% to 20% . |
| 10 | The Angela , Jade and Chartley patterns proved to be amongst the most popular choices , and early signs indicate that the Group has increased its share of the lucrative bridal market by achieving more and more registrations for its tableware designs . |
| 11 | Now , under pressure from the ITV companies , the Independent Broadcasting Authority has relaxed its interpretation of the Act . |
| 12 | Editorial space is , in practice , the space left over after advertising has taken its share of the newspaper . |
| 13 | Time has taken its toll of the copies produced in the 1840s . |
| 14 | The Federal Trade Commission has shelved its investigation of the Open Software Foundation for alleged violations of the US anti-trust laws ( UX No 317 ) . |
| 15 | Some complained that ‘ verbal inspiration [ of the Scriptures ] has become an untenable doctrine ’ and that ‘ doctrine has lost its hold of the pulpit ’ . |
| 16 | The increase in benefits to the customer , coupled with the fact that the company has strengthened its share of the mortgage market almost to rival that of the Halifax , meant that Abbey National was the obvious choice for Best High Street Bank . |
| 17 | AMATEUR golf in Scotland received a boost yesterday when it was announced that Martell Cognac , sponsor of the Scottish Club Championship for the past three years , has extended its support of the event until 1995 . |
| 18 | The Government has published its review of the National Health Service and has subsequently released 8 working papers . |