Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] its [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exchange , the CFTC said , had failed to notify the agency of serious deficiencies in Stotler 's financial records as early as 1987 , failed to enforce its own capital requirements , and failed to tell the CFTC that Stotler was undercapitalised by as much as $1.1m between October 1989 and April 1990 . |
| 2 | Once the war was over , however , the diversity of the Nationalist camp resurfaced , as each group sought to promote its own cause . |
| 3 | It meant the pound was set free to float to find its own value in world markets . |
| 4 | If imbalance occurs , then the star may explode as a supernova , or implode to entrap its own radiation in a black hole . |
| 5 | And during the war , while the Party failed to increase its own popularity , Hitler could benefit as the focus of a widespread consensus between 1939 and 1941 among the vast majority of the population about the successful course of the war and the favourable prospects for an early and glorious peace . |
| 6 | At one time the Institute had intended to establish its own college for training , and this was still essential . |
| 7 | In this situation each market maker can seek to adjust its own holdings of different stocks by trading with other market makers and can do this anonymously by dealing through the IDBs . |
| 8 | It is , however , now committed to find its own end-user business , and is thought to be talking to Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 9 | Even if Swapo fails to get the two-thirds of the vote it needs to write its own constitution , it will have little difficulty in persuading one or another of the smaller parties to work with it . |
| 10 | Apple is expected to launch its own personal digital organiser in a few weeks and other companies are expected to follow suit later in the year . |
| 11 | Because every teacher group which decides to discuss disruption will need to find its own starting point , its own trigger for concern or anxiety , the materials are offered , not as a prescribed course of discussion , but as a resource bank from which groups are invited to select discussion units appropriate to their needs . |
| 12 | Every family needs to find its own best time or times . |
| 13 | It 's early days and the market for acrylics needs to find its own level . |
| 14 | I have tried to show how such an approach is necessary if language teaching is to draw maximal benefits from developments in the informing disciplines while retaining its own identity as a domain of enquiry which has to meet its own conditions of relevance and accountability . |
| 15 | Each team has to create its own routine which has to include mandatory starburst , jumping jacks , domino sequence and freezing techniques . |
| 16 | He believes that each company needs to set its own targets for being a good corporate citizen , which can range from how much money should be donated to charities to making senior executives available for secondment to advise small businesses . |
| 17 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 18 | Europe has to fulfil its own environmental responsibilities for its own sake and also so that the Third World can develop without irreversible damage to the global environment . |
| 19 | The Daily Mirror tried to organise its own weapons amnesty for flick-knives , coshes , bicycle-chains and knuckle-dusters . |
| 20 | Following its fellow Motorola Inc 88000 travellers , Dolphin Server Technology AS ( UX No 376 ) and Harris Corp 's computer division ( UX No 380 ) , Data General Corp — which admits to having chewed the fat over alternative RISCs , but has decided to stick with the 88000 series ( UX No 376 ) — is expected to announce its own plans for systems based upon the next generation 88110 shortly , likely to include a complete re-haul of its existing AViiON workstation and server series . |
| 21 | If food intake is low the body starts to use its own sources of fuel , including fat stores ( particularly important for the slimmer ! ) . |
| 22 | But where else will the defence establishment turn if it wants to do its own brand of basic research , using spinoffs from the constant advances in high energy physics ? |
| 23 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |
| 24 | Of course , retreating from the trials of the twentieth century existence does not mean one wants to abandon its many creature comforts . |
| 25 | Mr Roberts said Manweb would seek to keep its own costs down in preparation for VAT . |
| 26 | In any case , they argue that if a country really wants to build its own bomb it will do so . |
| 27 | It is in their own interest to do so : each wants to pursue its own policies , which it believed to be in the best interests of the country , without having those policies tempered or abandoned because of the need to enter into alliance with another party . |
| 28 | It has to keep its own prices down so that it can compete with other major electricity suppliers . |
| 29 | Remember that each division will seek to maximise its own profit using the normal rules . |
| 30 | The local authority needs to hold its own electronic information resources in a much tighter harness if that is to be made possible . |