Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | GMTV took over the morning franchise from TV-am and last month brought in LWT 's chief executive Greg Dyke as chairman to spearhead its fight for more viewers . |
| 2 | These Courts held that since the Arab Organization for Industrialisation had its own legal identity separate from the four member States and enjoyed financial , procedural , and administrative autonomy , the latter could not be bound by obligations entered into on behalf of the Organisation . |
| 3 | Most of the companies in the top 10 are small and fast-growing , which is only to be expected — after all , it would be extraordinary for ICI to double its earnings . |
| 4 | The concept of publication , a creation of the age of printing , begins to evaporate as printing yields its monopoly in the world of communication ; so , even more disturbingly , does a more fundamental concept which long antedates printing , that of the stable document . |
| 5 | The tax was rushed through Parliament to ensure its arrival on the statute books before the election , and it may repeat some of the community charge 's mistakes . |
| 6 | He noted that the agreement had been for DEC to increase its stake in Olivetti to 10% in July 1994 , but found a means whereby it could make good on its commitment earlier than expected . |
| 7 | Science for instance makes its contribution by studiously avoiding social and political comment : it thus misses the way that it is inextricably bound up with dominant values , amongst them attitudes which assume ethnocentric and nationalistic positions . |
| 8 | It was widely reported that the UK had unsuccessfully argued at the committee meeting for a total suspension of the ERM and also that requests had been made for Germany to reduce its interest rates . |
| 9 | Springboard 's other activities have included industry representation at careers fairs and conventions , visits to teachers and schools and invitations for schools to visit its offices . |
| 10 | After its withdrawal the Federal Drug Administration in the USA asked for data to substantiate its effectiveness in treatment-resistant patients . |
| 11 | The Training Agency has made it clear that in order for Compacts to attract its support , they must offer training at least to Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) standards , and that jobs offered must be at full employed status . |
| 12 | The glitzy building — boasting an address on Bishopsgate , now one of the City 's favoured streets — was opened just three years ago but became an obvious target once the bank needed to put the family silver up for auction to improve its financial standing . |
| 13 | The most vigorous intervention concerned Scotland , but its success by no means matched its efforts . |
| 14 | The government in January 1990 gave up its attempt to join the Union monétaire ouest africaine ( UMOA ) , whose members ' currencies were linked to the French franc , and decided to turn to Portugal for help to make its currency convertible . |
| 15 | Taligent was conceived as a standalone developer of technology ; HP has worked closely with IBM and Sun on objects and the deal for IBM to port its Distributed System Object Model — DSOM — to the HP 's PA RISC architecture is thought to have been the impetus for the COSE initiative ( UX No 425 ) . |
| 16 | Taligent was conceived as a stand-alone developer of technology : Hewlett-Packard has worked closely with IBM and Sun on objects and the deal for IBM to convert its Distributed Systems Object Model — DSOM — for Hewlett-Packard 's Precision Architecture RISC architecture is thought to have been the impetus for the Common Open Software Environment initiative . |
| 17 | He declared that for Albania to realize its stated ambition of joining the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , " tangible proof " of reform was needed . |
| 18 | higher than this year , but it is for Derbyshire to decide its level of spending and priorities between services . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 20 | Mercury is waiting for Telecom to connect its equipment with a private telephone exchange ( Telecom 's contracts specify that its engineers should carry out any work on telephone exchanges ) . |
| 21 | It 's a chance for rugby to throw its weight around . |
| 22 | The Ukrainian Supreme Soviet passed laws on Oct. 23 creating the legal basis for Ukraine to have its own army , air force and navy — totalling 450,000 men — and a National Guard of 30,000 . |
| 23 | The absence of Ukraine 's President Leonid Kravchuk , who was pressing for Ukraine to have its own armed forces , caused anger among the delegates . |
| 24 | Comdisco got out of the risk arbitrage business and shortly thereafter went to the somewhat less receptive credit markets for $100m to boost its liquidity . |
| 25 | However , this Proposal was originally issued in 1972 , and was re-issued in 1983 following discussions with the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee ; its lack of progress reflects its controversial nature , and its future advance is unlikely to be rapid . |
| 26 | On the one hand , the Efta countries maintain agricultural subsidies higher even than those of the CAP ( albeit considerably more efficient ) ; Finland , which pursues a policy designed to populate its freezing borders with Russia , tops the European league table with levels of support costing its citizens $1,137 per head every year . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) The British Academy of Experts has its own list of members who hold themselves out as being experts in particular fields and available for compiling reports . |
| 28 | Unlike Rousettus , which can see very well and which uses unmodified relatively low-pitched sounds to do a modest amount of echolocation to supplement its good vision , the smaller bats appear to be technically highly advanced echo-machines . |
| 29 | It should be obvious first of all , but surprisingly to many people is n't , that each field of expertise needs its own vocabulary . |
| 30 | Acquiring this kind of expertise brings its own rewards and it is gratifying to discover that it is often easier to explain a subject to others when you have had some difficulty mastering it yourself . |