Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [prep] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
2 | If this assertion is correct , then it would not matter if the standing requirement was abolished entirely , provided some other mechanism was put in its place for weeding out hopeless and crank cases . |
3 | Later technical changes in transport were to make it possible for the city to change its nature by spreading out great suburban dormitories , and electrification would help to decentralize industry . |
4 | Max Klein , its incumbent for going on ten years , revelled in those qualities . |
5 | In Mandla v Dowell Lee , ( 1983 ) , a school was unable to convince the court that its policy of playing down cultural diversity to create a harmonious , racially integrated environment justified the decision to refuse to allow a Sikh boy to attend the school wearing a turban . |
6 | Now the army is back in control and has marked its victory by boosting up new pictures of Saddam , always with the same smile , the white of his teeth emphasized by the dark moustache . |
7 | The SFO itself blames past failures in part on its habit of bringing too many complex charges . |
8 | Lesk explains that ‘ the idea is to select the correct sense of a word by counting overlapping words between the sense definitions and the definitions of the other words in nearby context … it depends for its success on having fairly long and informative definitions . |
9 | And as they each grow older and make it — or do n't — through the nineties , the Pack is already well on its way to becoming just another part of Hollywood folklore . |
10 | In his letter to shareholders Alan Sugar paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way by becoming too big . |
11 | Pursuing its goal of creating very high-speed clustered configurations of the RS/6000 Unix workstations and servers , IBM Corp has turned for help — on the fast optical links it will need — to Ancor Communications Inc in Minnetonka , Minnesota . |
12 | It may be seen as a ruse by the parasite to avoid adverse climatic conditions for its progeny by remaining sexually immature in the host until more favourable conditions return . |
13 | Britain claims its target for reducing presently projected levels of carbon dioxide by 30 per cent by 2005 is " very demanding " . |
14 | This is a measure that will cause real and conspicuous hardship , and the Government should occupy the year before its implementation in drawing up proper measures to soften its impact on vulnerable groups , not all of whom will be covered by upgrading of benefits . |
15 | The Board has my warm support in its task of gathering together all Catholic women 's organisations and listening to their varied voices . |