Example sentences of "[vb -s] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OLD Krems is built on the slope of the Danube 's left bank just where the little river Krems joins its greater sister . |
| 2 | The courts have held that if a public body exercises its statutory power for an improper purpose they can intervene . |
| 3 | The suggested Directive 's objective is to protect minority shareholders against abuses of power by regulating the way in which the controlling undertaking exercises its dominant influence over the public company by interfering in its management . |
| 4 | Similarly , under Rule 37.4 , if the offeror buys-in or redeems its own shares , this has to be disclosed as a dealing under Rule 8 and in the offer document in the case of a securities exchange offer . |
| 5 | That furthers its cuddly image and it is offensive to no other mammal . |
| 6 | AS IBM SHIPS ITS FIRST 64-CPU SP1 TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY |
| 7 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 8 | This company , funded by Shell Ventures ( UK ) , ships its epitaxially-coated semiconductor wafers to the US , Europe and Far East . |
| 9 | ( g ) the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the takeover ( in a contested bid , the offeror will need to think carefully about what arguments it will put forward in order to persuade the target 's shareholders to accept the offer against their board 's recommendation and , where it needs its own shareholders ' approval , its arguments justifying the proposed bid ) ; and |
| 10 | A complex dedicated simulator can cost several million pounds and it needs its own crew of skilled operators . |
| 11 | It should be obvious first of all , but surprisingly to many people is n't , that each field of expertise needs its own vocabulary . |
| 12 | the use of ranges — each level in the hierarchy needs its own number ; |
| 13 | NT desperately needs its own series of native benchmarks . |
| 14 | Every society needs its flawed heroes , and we appear to have saddled ourselves with rock singers and movie stars . |
| 15 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 16 | But as the new realists and the Christian revivalists equally understood , mankind needs its shared experience of reality ; and conversation apart , it is doubtful if anything but fiction can do it as well , or do it at all . |
| 17 | Indeed , one interesting aspect of the budget will be the extent to which the Treasury revises its economic forecast to take in the realities of recession . |
| 18 | Eugenics owes its specific place in our history to its influence on the emergent pedagogy of sex education . |
| 19 | Venezuela owes its Islamic Centre , completed last month , not to its own oil riches , which are considerable , but to the generosity of Saudi Arabian benefactors . |
| 20 | As attractive as the 900 T16S is , it owes its seductive lines to function rather than fashion . |
| 21 | The company , which began in 1980 running two second-hand buses between Dundee and London , owes its phenomenal growth to privatisation . |
| 22 | This reaction owes its first impulse to the early days of punk , when groups like Marine , The Pop Group and A Certain Ratio first dabbled , intrigued , in funk . |
| 23 | ‘ We have every sympathy with those who have made substantial underwriting losses in recent years but Lloyd 's owes its first duty to policyholders with valid claims which must be met , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The Forum Romanum owes its present layout largely to Julius Caesar , who replanned much of it . |
| 25 | This fine old variety , raised in Suffolk about 150 years ago , owes its aromatic flavour to another good old apple , Ribston Pippin , which was one of its parents . |
| 26 | In each case , the ‘ temporary ’ augmentation of the Soviet garrison became a permanent feature of the new status quo : after 1956 the Soviet Union doubled the strength of its Hungarian garrison from two divisions to four ; the Central Group of Forces owes its entire existence to the events of the Prague Spring . |
| 27 | For instance ( using the familiar Venn diagrams ) it will be said that the underlined phrase of ( 11 ) ( which is , incidentally , a zoologically correct statement ) owes its restrictive quality to the fact that there is an intersection between circle a , standing for the class of piranhas , and circle b , standing for the class of vegetarian creatures , and this intersection represents the beings denoted by the subject of the sentence : ( 11 ) vegetarian piranhas can be found in the Amazon ( 12 ) However , such implications are incorrect ; it is by no means necessarily true that the property instantiated by a restrictive adjective is to be ascribed to the entity qualified . |
| 28 | It owes its second chance of life to an alert dock worker . |
| 29 | It undoubtedly owes its early discovery by both scientists and the hobby to its distribution pattern ; it is found all along the main drainage of the Amazon in relatively accessible waters , unlike some of the more recent introductions ( eg A.nijsseni , A.macmasteri ) which have a very restricted range in small bodies of water off the beaten track . |
| 30 | It owes its unique status to the fact that the people who developed modern science and in many other ways created the modern world community had acknowledged the supremacy of gold since prehistoric times . |