Example sentences of "[vb pp] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it only recognized the PLO as a substantive interlocutor for the Palestinian people after world condemnation of its decision to bar Arafat from entry to the United States to address the United Nations in New York in December 1988 , and after he had addressed its General Assembly in Geneva instead . |
| 2 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 3 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 4 | British Telecommunications Plc has won its biggest network contract yet , a multi-million pound five-year deal to provide a communications network to the Eurocontrol European air traffic control co-ordination body . |
| 5 | Centuries of European upheaval have skirted its white stone and red tiled houses . |
| 6 | So far only the local city authority has nominated its three members and the identity of the new President is still a matter of speculation : after ten years of Socialist rule the Christian Democrats feel it is their turn to be represented , but so far no suitable candidate has emerged . |
| 7 | By this time , New Scientist had organised its own survey of what was likely to happen when the task force reached its objective . |
| 8 | He had claimed its 1.3 engine was 1.6 . |
| 9 | The clash between the demands of the Welfare State and Britain 's desire to regain her position as a great power had claimed its first victim ! |
| 10 | The new status system for racing under SARA rules has claimed its first victim . |
| 11 | Devonport has claimed its original bid was provoked partly because it believed the navy intended to centralise nuclear refitting at Rosyth , thus undermining Devonport 's future , and is insistent that its proposal was unsolicited . |
| 12 | De Gaulle wanted first for the Commission to end the pretence that it was a potential European government , and also its efforts to impose itself on national governments ; and second that if the Treaty of Rome requirements about majority voting were to apply , they should not be permitted to do so in situations where a member state deemed its vital interests to be at risk . |
| 13 | After the Suez crisis Britain had rebuilt its foreign policy around the US alliance but in 1960 the Americans seemed concerned with the rising power of the Six rather than Britain . |
| 14 | It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended . |
| 15 | At the same time , he has put a warning shot across the bows of the rightwing pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , which has already committed its 88 members of parliament to supporting the minority government . |
| 16 | In these circumstances , it might well have modified its present adaptation to ground dwelling and nesting to something more appropriate to the more complex tundra environments that then existed . |
| 17 | Especially since the demise of Vanguard and the simplification of the inter-unionist competition , the DUP has stressed its own reliability ( ‘ for trustworthy leadership , vote DUP ’ ) and made much play of divisions within the Official Unionists and the continued presence in the Unionist Party of some people who were tainted by O'Neillism and power-sharing . |
| 18 | The current NHS reforms have again targeted its managerial structure and many changes not only affect , but actively involve nurses . |
| 19 | The Securitate has regained its former power and keeps the minorities in the same old state of terror and repression . |
| 20 | Her body had soon regained its youthful shape and he marvelled how trim she looked . |
| 21 | The ghost , having regained its upright position , called the dog by a click of his tongue and the intruders retreated into the coal cellar . |
| 22 | BET , which deals in laundry to plant hire , saw its half-year profits slump from £71.5m to £40.5m and has slashed its interim dividend from 4.25p to 2p to conserve cash . |
| 23 | The national strategy unit , led by Howard Webber and Tim Challans , has fused its contrary voices with diplomatic panache . |
| 24 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 25 | The UN report blamed the army , the police and right-wing death squads for 12,000 disappearances since 1983 , confirmed that this was " by far the highest number recorded by the working group for any single country " , and suggested that there could still be many more ( a European Parliament team having recently reported its own estimate of 60,000 killed or missing ) . |
| 26 | And Meiko reminds us that its next-generation massively parallel system ( UX No 401 ) , uses no transputers — the UK , Bristol-based research and development operation , has designed its own communications processor which will operate alongside the Fujitsu Ltd vector processor and Texas Instruments Inc 's Viking Sparc . |
| 27 | Has the industry finally shed its negative image for helping businesses only when they are in trouble ? |
| 28 | Has the industry finally shed its negative image for helping businesses only when they are in trouble ? |
| 29 | In recent years , folk music has shed its woolly jumper and finger-in-the-ear image and reached a new audience which appreciates its wide range of styles and influences . |
| 30 | Revelations may come in the night , when the mind has shed its normal clutter of reasons and viewpoints . |