Example sentences of "[prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once operational , the existing scouring machine presently located in the dye house will be moved along-side its new partner , where foundation work has already been completed for this major operation . |
| 2 | After its first emergency meeting on Aug. 3 the GCC Ministerial Council met again in Jeddah on Aug. 7 and reiterated its call for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal . |
| 3 | We know that Olaudah Equiano spread successive printings of his autobiography after its first publication in 1789 by selling them with antislavery as well as personal benefit in mind to his audiences after meetings . |
| 4 | More notably , however , at the Chichester Theatre in 1983 he rescued the reputation of A Patriot for Me , John Osborne 's tragi-comedy of homosexuality which had been banned after its first performance in 1965 . |
| 5 | IBM is now saying the Taligent operating environment , its joint venture with Apple , wo n't be able to run OS/2 , Mac or AIX applications until a year after its first release . |
| 6 | In July 1908 after its first year of trading , the bar account showed a £45 profit , including stock . |
| 7 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 8 | In the past I have had to search far and wide for opportunities to fly this wonderful big radial-engined workhorse , and my quest had taken me to Australia , Canada and various parts of the USA ; but now , at last , 45 years after its first flight , we have a floatplane Beaver here in the UK . |
| 9 | As the ABI wo n't be updated until a year after its first edition , additional requirements like these will be published as addenda . |
| 10 | Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale , for example , was revived in 1623 more than a decade after its first appearance . |
| 11 | It might have served as a link between Britain and the Six , but it was not until after its first application to join the EEC had been rejected in 1963 that Britain began seriously to consider this as a possibility . |
| 12 | Bewl Valley is beginning to reap the benefits after its first crop in 1987 . |
| 13 | The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is . |
| 14 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 15 | Trans Provincial Airlines Bristol 170 Freighter C-FDFC ( ex-BISU ) looking very smart after its recent repaint |
| 16 | Keep on using lead free if the engine is not set properly after its recent service . |
| 17 | LAURA Ashley , at 93p , will tomorrow announce a return to trading profit after its recent setbacks . |
| 18 | However , there were indications last night that some Communist deputies may seek to complicate the vote , by not turning up in sufficient numbers , or to delay it , possibly by as much as three weeks , to allow their own party to re-group after its recent humiliations . |
| 19 | The Greenfield committee , so named after its eminent chairman Dr James Greenfield prescribed 14 doses of medicine for an ailing National Health Service ( NHS ) . |
| 20 | Macquarie Island , close to the Antarctic Convergence , has a resident population of common redpolls Acanthis flammea , a species which spread south to subantarctic islands after its nineteenth-century introduction into New Zealand from Europe . |
| 21 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 22 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 23 | The Home Office is planning tougher powers against laundering by adding extra clauses to the Criminal Justice ( International Co-operation ) Bill after its second reading this month . |
| 24 | Petworth epitomised the process particularly after its second rebuilding by George , Third Earl of Egremont , in the 1780s . |
| 25 | Billy quickly broke box-office records at the Theatre Royal , playing to capacity audiences after its second week . |
| 26 | Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor . |
| 27 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 28 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 29 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 30 | The late medieval story of a small place such as Thaxted , with its mass of late medieval timber buildings , survives because it failed to develop after its early period of prosperity as a wool town . |