Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when the upturn comes , the company , with its strong balance sheet and unique spread of service activities , is well placed to continue its long record of growth . ’ |
| 2 | Lionel Sackville , the Union Jack 's chairman , said the deal would transform it ‘ into a better balanced company , well placed to continue its active exploration programme in a tax-efficient manner ’ . |
| 3 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 4 | It reckons it is well placed given its behind-the-scenes work in helping to develop some important interoperability features for Unix : it also developed the Transparent Computing Facility for IBM 's AIX and a remote procedure call test and validation suite for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 5 | At one time the Institute had intended to establish its own college for training , and this was still essential . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ As a result of the many representations received , the Council has now resolved to continue its traditional transport arrangements . |
| 7 | Dawkins 's approach to evolution was presented in characteristically entertaining form when he suggested that the organism is ‘ … a robot vehicle blindly programmed to preserve its selfish genes ’ . |
| 8 | Looking ahead , Mr Kindersley said that DK adult publishing was expected to continue its strong performance , and that DK Children 's would probably be flat until 1994–95 , when a number of major reference books were scheduled for publication . |
| 9 | The Lebanese parliament is expected to continue its informal sessions here until the weekend — when the MPs will face the real ( and potentially frightening ) task of returning to Lebanon to account for their words in front of the sometimes sinister figures who still control the land . |
| 10 | The market in the Pacific Basin is expected to continue its rapid growth and the challenge for LASMO is to find additional reserves of gas to supply this growing demand . |
| 11 | UniSoft says it knows of at least three firms that paid up to $1m each for MIPS ' doomed Advanced RISC Computing development kit , originally designed to kick-start its Advanced Computing Environment initiative into life last year . |
| 12 | The Lithuanians are to make an even more serious challenge to Moscow at a special republican party congress later this month , which is expected to restore its pre-war independence from the Soviet Communist Party . |
| 13 | A new international competitiveness unit has been set up and is expected to issue its first report shortly . |
| 14 | It is , however , now committed to find its own end-user business , and is thought to be talking to Olivetti & Co SpA . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Egyptian expeditionary force in Saudi Arabia was expected to reach its full strength this week . |
| 17 | However , in an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft 's likely objections to WABI , legal or otherwise — including its promise to ‘ make Windows such a moving target that Sun could not keep up ’ ( UX No 431 ) — Sun is also expected to unleash its latest secret weapon that 's guaranteed to raise the stakes once again . |
| 18 | However , in an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft 's likely objections to WABI , legal or otherwise — including its promise to ‘ make Windows such a moving target that Sun could not keep up ’ — Sun is also expected to unleash its latest secret weapon that 's guaranteed to raise the stakes once again . |
| 19 | The plastic sector is expected to reflect its depressed market with a decline in production of 4 per cent , while fibres will be up 1 per cent . |
| 20 | It is expected to sell its entire shareholding . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Depositors and liquidators of the failed bank served writs claiming both that the Bank fluffed its legal duty to regulate and supervise BCCI , and that it acted in bad faith , an accusation designed to bypass its broad legal immunity from prosecution . |
| 23 | Cray Research Inc is expected to ship its first massively parallel processor , due in the second half of 1993 , in configurations with up to 1,024 Alpha processing nodes , hears Electronic News : indeed ‘ several thousand ’ processors could be supported at a customer 's request . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | An alternative is to make the loan in terms of a foreign currency which is expected to retain its real value . |
| 26 | The argument is extended to the work of the units themselves each of which is felt ‘ to have its own strengths ’ and which , at a time when some pressure was being exerted by the LEA , should be permitted to retain its distinctive and separate character . |
| 27 | The only problem I have with all this hectic activity is that the concept of funk-metal should have been buried under 20 feet of hyper dangerous asbestos padding before it was permitted to draw its first breath . |
| 28 | The prosecution is expected to start its closing speech today . |
| 29 | It comes only days after Motorola lodged West Lothian 's biggest planning application , designed to accelerate its five-year timetable for bringing the plant up to full production levels and to pave the way for possible further expansion in the future . |
| 30 | The Committee is not expected to release its final findings until next year . |