Example sentences of "its [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |
| 2 | What was undoubtedly important , however , was that the ICS briefed and trained its interviewers to deal with the part of the questionnaire which dealt with sexual offences , and indeed when a case was uncovered by a male interviewer he always offered a follow-up interview conducted by a woman . |
| 3 | The regime became increasingly draconian in its attempts to deal with the problems it was confronting ; the society , in turn , began to establish public associations of all kinds , most notably the workers ' defence committee ( KSS-KOR ) , which were independent of party and state control . |
| 4 | Cummins has offered him a senior position with the company and the chance to spearhead its attempts to break into the East European engine market . |
| 5 | Disagreements within the FNCD , especially in relation to the Aug. 13 disturbances , led the Movement of the Organization of the Country ( MOP ) to ask its deputies to withdraw from the FNCD parliamentary bloc . |
| 6 | And although they maintained none of County Durham 's 5,000 teachers would lose their jobs the higher than expected pay deal will make the county dig into its reserves to pay for the salary hike . |
| 7 | It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the NSF-controlled radio and television services had been calling its supporters to come to the square ; some were brought by lorry , and by mid-evening they had forced the anti-NSF demonstrators , now outnumbered , to retreat from the Square . |
| 9 | The insect also communicates through ripples , using its legs to tap on the surface of the water . |
| 10 | Amid continuing military claims and counter-claims by both sides , there was evidence that the MNR had stepped up its attacks to coincide with the Rome meetings . |
| 11 | The failure of the second coup attempt against General Noriega in less than two years has disappointed and enraged some Panamanians who felt the US missed a golden opportunity to use its troops to dispose of the general , indicted by the Americans on drug-smuggling charges last year . |
| 12 | From there , he lobbed the bottle to the tiled floor beneath the sink unit , where it smashed into pieces , releasing its contents to flow over the floor . |
| 13 | In a town where the council uses its powers to insist on the colour of a brick wall or to ban taxi drivers virtually for picking their nose on duty there seems nothing to prevent such a man from selling cars . |
| 14 | The sun disputes its rights to rule in the sky above . |
| 15 | Trinidad and Tobago received a great deal of international support in its efforts to deal with the July coup attempt . |
| 16 | AT US insistence the existing agreement , which had come into force in 1987 , had already been stripped of its provisions to intervene in the market . |
| 17 | PAKISTAN will be more self-sufficient in gas supplies from 1995 as a result of a decision by LASMO Oil Pakistan [ LOPL ] and its partners to proceed with the development of the Kadanwari gas field . |
| 18 | In the hall she would put on her hat and , lulling all suspicions of decay and its mortifications to rest in the conviction of her own economical and resourceful genius , with Gigi on her shoulder , she would stand at the head of the basement staircase screaming ( Gigi would scream too ) for Silly-Willie and Brigid to come and take her instructions and give their assistance while she created some nauseating delicacy for Dada 's dinner . |
| 19 | In the end , the Colonial Office took the decision to allow the P.N.M. to select two of its members to sit on the LegCo. thereby giving them victory with a clear majority . |
| 20 | 1979 Act requires the Board to identify seven of its members to serve on the UKCC . |
| 21 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 22 | Under the restrictions of the Office of Fair Trading , SLAD can not compel its members to conform to the terms and conditions the Society recommends and members are free to amend them individually for clients . |
| 23 | Labour has , therefore , perceived its interests to lie in the protection of the urban authorities whether the former county boroughs or the present metropolitan areas . |
| 24 | This small fish , new to science and a member of the family called sleepers , swims upside down using some of its fins to hold onto the leaf , and the other fins to propel it through the water . |
| 25 | Every year , Europe 's eels leave its rivers to spawn in the Sargasso sea . |
| 26 | As Pollitt notes ( 1986a , p. 165 ) ‘ a government can force its employees to go through the motions , but it can not mandate enthusiasm and commitment ’ . |