Example sentences of "[vb -s] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have held that if a public body exercises its statutory power for an improper purpose they can intervene . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That furthers its cuddly image and it is offensive to no other mammal . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This company , funded by Shell Ventures ( UK ) , ships its epitaxially-coated semiconductor wafers to the US , Europe and Far East . |
| 6 | Every society needs its flawed heroes , and we appear to have saddled ourselves with rock singers and movie stars . |
| 7 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Eugenics owes its specific place in our history to its influence on the emergent pedagogy of sex education . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As attractive as the 900 T16S is , it owes its seductive lines to function rather than fashion . |
| 13 | The company , which began in 1980 running two second-hand buses between Dundee and London , owes its phenomenal growth to privatisation . |
| 14 | The Forum Romanum owes its present layout largely to Julius Caesar , who replanned much of it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 21 | And at the same time , it owes its very existence to an alliance of social forces that sees government as the instrument of social domination — whether by a ruling class , a small party or tribal elite or a coalition of either with the bureaucracy of the state . |
| 22 | One of the most popular has been carnelian , which owes its reddish colour to the presence of iron oxide . |
| 23 | For example , Kramer ( 1977a ) assumes that in each election the incumbent party defends its established policy , whereas the opposition chooses its policy freely to maximize its vote . |
| 24 | The clue to the GL 's satisfying performance is that it develops its maximum torque at a modest 2,500 rpm , pulling strongly from low revs , making it an easy-going cruiser without the need for constant recourse to the five-speed gearbox . |
| 25 | It is being piloted in Hove , Sussex , and Oadby , Leicestershire , where the society has its administrative offices , and is open to employees with children aged between five and 14 . |
| 26 | ‘ Each kind of eagle has its sacred site in whose sanctuary dark forces weaken and lose their grip . |
| 27 | For example , one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value . |
| 28 | In the USA there is a high significance correlation with flexibility of operation , suggesting that the ability to overcome the communication gap between R&D and production noted previously has its major benefit in adherence to programme . |
| 29 | The Keynesian view implies that the money supply has its major effect on economic activity via the impact of interest rates on investment expenditures . |
| 30 | The emergence of the enterprise union form of organisation after World War II , and the importance attaching to its role in the industrial relations system , has its economic basis in the practice of lifetime employment for key employees . |