Example sentences of "its [noun] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare watched her listening , taking note , modifying her language and behaviour as carefully as an animal adapts its camouflage to fit into a new environment . |
| 2 | The United States on March 24 announced its decision to withdraw from the International Sugar Organization ( ISO ) , which brought together all major producers and consumers of sugar . |
| 3 | SECRET talks were held yesterday between United States and North Korean representatives as Washington urged Pyongyang to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 4 | The procedure is that : LCH gives notice of its decision to consolidate to the relevant exchange , the selling member and the buying member ; the seller is charged with the conduct of LCH 's case against the buyer ; and the buyer is charged with LCH 's case against the seller ; copies of all pleadings being supplied to LCH and LCH retaining the right to submit its own arguments to the arbitrators . |
| 5 | Within the ERM a Labour government would presumably find its freedom to launch into an unwise , inflationary spending spree greatly restricted . |
| 6 | The DUP has added Bill Irwin to its ranks to add to the four sitting councillors . |
| 7 | The considerable locational advantages possessed by West Ham which gave rise to its extraordinary growth were to become fetters on the ability of its industry to adapt to a transformed economic environment in the twentieth century . |
| 8 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 9 | Washington soon showed its readiness to work with the new British government . |
| 10 | In March 1947 , the Government announced its intention to round off the social service provision that had been made by the National Insurance and National Health Service Acts of 1946 , by introducing legislation to break up the poor law , and to introduce a comprehensive system of national assistance . |
| 11 | On the same day that it announced its intention to apply for the judicial review , Greenpeace members attempted to block the company 's discharge pipes , provoking an injunction banning them from trespassing further on the company 's property . |
| 12 | It has announced its intention to tender for a further 12.5pc stake . |
| 13 | Ways of Reading invites its readers to think about the whole field of English Studies , and the closely related areas of cultural studies , linguistics , stylistics and , to a lesser extent , criticism . |
| 14 | Even if the fighting dies down , no answer is in sight to the political issue that led to the war — the reluctance of most of Bosnia 's Serbs and many of its Croats to live in an independent Bosnian state . |
| 15 | The bullet traversed the skull and was deflected in its passage to emerge on the left side , shattering bones in the area of articulation of the lower jaw . |
| 16 | We and our European Community partners have repeatedly condemned the Burmese military junta for its failure to respond to the unequivocal outcome of the May 1990 elections , as well as its continuing disregard for human rights , notably demonstrated by the house arrest of 1991 Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 17 | The industry said it would be preferable to leave it for up to a hundred years to allow its radioactivity to decay to a manageable level . |
| 18 | The Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , says he is backing calls by the United States for its allies to agree on a joint strategy to end the war in Bosnia . |
| 19 | But Leaving the Light On ( Gollancz , £14.99 ) obliges its heroine to sift through the dark dynamics of relationships instead . |
| 20 | Regressive rock 's sin is its lack of conceit , its cultivation of EMPTYHEADEDNESS and naïveté , its refusal to stretch beyond a shallow delving into the slight pangs of mundane love and small sadness . |
| 21 | He added that Intel has been encouraging its customers to shift from the 386 to the more powerful and more profitable 486 to counter competition from AMD . |
| 22 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 23 | The prospects for world peace would be gauged by the support given to the democratically elected Popular Front government of Spain in its efforts to stave off the fascist threat . |
| 24 | Referring to the June draft treaty in its aims to build upon the Single European Act by strengthening co-operation on foreign and security policy , he made the point that , as the Gulf conflict had shown , there was a considerable difference between the member states , but that there had been a considerable degree of united action in supporting the new democracies in central and eastern Europe in relation to the Baltic states and in promoting the Prime Minister 's safe havens initiative . |
| 25 | The secure places are fully used , but secure accommodation is an expensive resource and one which has its role to play in the full range of provision . |
| 26 | Red-figure turns out to combine the silhouette-principle , dear to vase-decorators for its strength on the curved surface , with the freedom of outline drawing ; and this encourages its practitioners to look outside the closed tradition of their craft to the work of painters on flat surfaces ( cf. fig. 45 , painted perhaps about the time of red-figure 's inception ) . |
| 27 | The county council will have to ask colleges to bid for money on its behalf to pay for the vocational adult education courses it runs . |
| 28 | Seljalandsfoss is a ponytail of a waterfall throwing itself clear of the rim of its cliff to look like a 1950s American college girl shaking her head . |
| 29 | to encourage its members to invest in the inner cities . |
| 30 | To prevent such a sequence of events the church must seek continual spiritual renewal ; deploy a high proportion of its members to work in the external constituency ; in McGavran 's terminology , to turn them into class two leaders and workers , i.e. ‘ members whose energies are primarily directed to serving and evangelising non-Christians in their ministry area in an effort to bring them into the Body of Christ ’ , and to establish new groups and plant new congregations . |