Example sentences of "its [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before presenting the Service 's estimates to Parliament , the department should , in theory , prune its programmes down to the financial target line imposed by the Treasury ; but , in practice , it has been found that the bow-wave tends to dissipate as the actual financial year goes by because there are always delays in most programmes that lead to underspending on individual projects . |
| 2 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
| 3 | At the time it seemed as though the Midland had miraculously got its money back from the ill-fated venture . |
| 4 | For all the apparent scepticism levelled at these bodies from other quarters , the senior financial officers canvassed for their views of the ICAS research study found little to question in its setting out of the existing problems and the responsibilities for central elements of corporate governance . |
| 5 | The Metropolitan Line grew fast in the 1860S and 1870S , the District Line joined it and it spread its branches out into the open countryside to the north-west of London . |
| 6 | I am sure that West Yorkshire will welcome any assistance that the schemes can give , and will also appreciate that its rate support grant has increased by 16 per cent. , but that does not mean that it can bring its force up to the required standard . |
| 7 | With a controlled distributor system , the spirits range and its own TV airtime , PTGI — and Guinness in Indonesia — is moving on still further from its origins back in the 1970s . |
| 8 | Several key factors will influence just how quickly Ireland can get its rugby back on the right track : fitness , tough competition and coaching . |
| 9 | Some of this , such as traveller 's joy ( Clematis vitalba ) , has extended its range on to the alkaline mortar-rich soils of the urban wasteland . |
| 10 | I am aware of most of its history in America , its formation out of the Pontiac Buggy Company , its takeover by General Motors and its sibling Pontiac — that is all fairly well documented . |
| 11 | When a melt of any kind is cooled rapidly , it does not have time to sort its atoms out into the ordered atomic structures of mineral crystals . |
| 12 | It seems to me to be right to make the Tate into a museum entirely devoted to British art , from its beginnings down to the present day . |
| 13 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , the second capacitor passes its charge on to the third capacitor . |
| 15 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 16 | Football mythology includes the unlikely tale of a First Division club laundering cash from the Great Train Robbery through its turnstiles back in the 1960s . |
| 17 | Firstly , the USA experienced low inflation in its economy up to the early 1960s due to ‘ conservative economic policies . |
| 18 | Behind the horses , the curricle , its hood up against the piercing March wind and the oncoming rain , shifted on the cobbles , and settled again . |
| 19 | Through the mist he could see the vague outlines of the priory church and followed its outline round to the ruined oak stump where Lady Eleanor had received her mysterious messages . |
| 20 | The merlin establishes its territory up in the heather-covered hill areas , and searches out suitable hooded crows ' nests from the year before which it will appropriate for its own brood . |
| 21 | In a similar way , the circumstance that the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages formed its hierarchy out of the best brains in the land , regardless of their estate , birth or fortune , was one of the principal means of consolidating ecclesiastical rule and suppressing the laity . |
| 22 | Properly discounting the three notorious rescue cases , we can cite its performance along with the Spanish , American , French and Italian examples as evidence to bear out the theoretical expectation that industrial co-operatives should perform at least as well as conventionally organised businesses ; and that the extra that Co-operation has to offer as an ingredient necessary to full success , a potential in motivation , is indeed available to help industrial co-operatives out-perform conventional businesses . |
| 23 | The foal cringes , lowering its shoulders , extending its neck , and raising its muzzle up to the other horse . |
| 24 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 25 | As the smoke from the fire gently filters upwards through the drying malted barley , the peat gently imparts its distinctive aroma , which will in time find its way through to the finished malt whisky . |
| 26 | A presence forcing its way through from the Other Side . |
| 27 | The intrepid band braved a precipitous mountain track snaking its way up to the highest peak on the Arabian Peninsula [ Jeebl Nabi el Shwayb — 3,666 metres , or about 12,000 feet ) . |
| 28 | A significant proportion of this expenditure found its way in to the mass media field . |
| 29 | There is every chance that the IDO application will eventually find its way back to the Welsh Office , who have declined to ‘ call it in ’ voluntarily . |
| 30 | In return for this concession the English government obtained a number of crucial episcopal appointments , not least the translation of Sudbury to Canterbury ; moreover , the good offices of the pope were assured in the current peace negotiations ; finally , some of the money would find its way back to the English crown for the ransom of the pope 's brother , Roger Beaufort , who was then an English prisoner of war . |