Example sentences of "it [to-vb] its [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE LEITH Aged Mariners ' Fund asks members of the public and companies to send donations to enable it to continue its financial assistance to more than 100 former merchant seamen and their dependants . |
| 2 | Section 1(7) of the Companies Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 prohibits the directors of a company from procuring it to purchase its own shares through the market with a view to the making of a profit or the avoidance of a loss ( whether for the directors or any other person ) at a time when the directors are in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information . |
| 3 | Parties to CITES must give the secretariat the finances with which to do its job and not oblige it to raise its own funds in ways which lead to question and criticism . ’ |
| 4 | But no compulsion can secure that it will proceed along those lines … it can only be supplied with the knowledge and training which may guide it to seek its own solution in the better state with higher ideals . |
| 5 | Elastic materials convert mechanical work into potential energy which is recoverable ; for example an ideal spring , if deformed by a stress , stores the energy and uses it to recover its original shape after removal of the stress . |