Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A terrace for open-air teas looks towards the award-winning British Tioxide white garden , re-created here after its success at the Gateshead Garden Festival . |
| 2 | The TPS through its operation at the local level integrates initiatives such as Compact , SCIP , SATRO and other education business practitioners . |
| 3 | It is well placed for excursions to the most spectacular part of the lake , and a region through its position at the corner , where the main lake turns south to face the high massif of the Gotthard and the route which has always beckoned northern traders , adventurers , mercenary soldiers — and nowadays tourists towards the southern lands . |
| 4 | Dust is expected to be common in the PFM , and in this theory the direct accretion of such dust accounts for its abundance at the lunar surface , though smaller quantities are tiny impact-fragments and the result of condensation from rock vapour generated by impacts . |
| 5 | It is not so much that the stuff itself is pink ( the stuff itself is chartreuse , as a matter of fact ) but that everything connected with it and surrounding it is : its packaging , its bottle-top , the invitations and programmes for its launch at the Opéra-Comique — its vie , if you like , is en rose . |
| 6 | The Cadbury Committee recommends that the chairman of the audit committee should be responsible for answering questions about its work at the agm . |
| 7 | Not much was known about its owner at the time , he was called Colin French . |
| 8 | For Scott the design of the film rather than its storyline was the real statement and he refused to philosophize about its meaning at the time of Blade Runner 's release , and quick demise ( it was subsequently resurrected as a cult movie and video hit ) . |
| 9 | At this moment the snake strikes , flinging its neck towards its victim at the astonishing speed of 8 feet per second . |
| 10 | The Scotsman has learned that the National Art Collections Fund has stripped the university of a purchase grant worth several thousand pounds because of its disquiet at the proposed sale . |
| 11 | Although it was embellished in 1750 by John Browne , Forston Manor was already extremely sophisticated for a house of its size at the time , for it has some details that are ‘ Baroque ’ , a style that often moved rectangles into curves . |
| 12 | Now there is a fourth , organised by The Cleveland Museum for its seventy-fifth anniversary in conjunction with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and the Louvre , and now on the second stage of its tour at the Kimbell Art Museum . |
| 13 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |
| 14 | It 's the second incident of its kind at the hospital this year . |
| 15 | Give a fair review of the development of the company during the year and of its position at the balance sheet date . |
| 16 | The NGC would present the whole of its evidence at the beginning of the inquiry , held mainly in Northallerton and expected to last more than two months . |
| 17 | As the Olympic movement races towards the centenary of its formation at the Sorbonne in 1894 it 's hard to believe cricket was once an Olympic sport . |
| 18 | This century alone , Berlin has had an extraordinary history — a natural , social , cultural and political centre , because of its location at the crossroads of east and west Europe . |
| 19 | The Trust also believes that our countryside belongs to the whole nation , and an important part of its work at the Denmark Farm Conservation Centre involves creating public access to this pocket of living countryside and sharing it as a resource with local people and the many city- dwellers all over Britain who support the experiment financially . |
| 20 | Its machinery had to be capable of carrying out the role in relation to those institutions now designated as polytechnics — which , as we have seen , were far from homogeneous — and in relation to a large variety of other institutions with one or another proportion of its work at the level of CNAA degrees . |
| 21 | Where a dominant influence exists over a public company , the dominant undertaking will be liable for any damage suffered by the public company and , more radically , for any debts incurred by the public company as a result of its acting at the direction of the dominant undertaking , although this will seemingly not be the case if the dominant undertaking 's influence is in fact exercised in the best interests of the public company . |
| 22 | They , like the plane , in later years , represented a special link in the canal line between the East Midlands and London , a line for which there were great hopes both at the time of construction at the beginning of the nineteenth century and of its rehabilitation at the end of the century . |
| 23 | An Antiguan investigating team , led by one of its delegation at the UN , Patrick Lewis , questioned Israeli Foreign Ministry officials in Jerusalem on May 8 , and was reportedly shown documentation which testified to the legality of the arms sale . |
| 24 | A detachment must be deployed within 8″ of its regiment at the start of the game . |
| 25 | Now the public may enjoy its stately grandeur and the magnificent flowering trees of its parkland at the same time , perhaps , pondering upon the enterprise and ethics with which the magnificent property was founded . |
| 26 | However , the NCOAP directed the greater part of its invective at the moral issue , rather than at the prior financial one . |
| 27 | Deddington is indeed a failed town which was founded probably a little before 1190 presumably because of its situation at the junction of what by then were important routes . |
| 28 | Perhaps , as the attacker 's jaws open wide to grab the small , furry shape , the potto acts like a jerking hedgehog and thrusts the back of its neck at the biting mouth . |
| 29 | It was obvious that oceanic crust must be continually destroyed somewhere at a rate comparable with that of its creation at the oceanic ridges in order to maintain a balance . |
| 30 | A body may be acting within the scope of its authority at the outset but may , by the way it goes about taking the decision , go outside the four corners of the Act . |