Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun pl] ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the autumn of 1982 , immediately after the Falklands war , and the public image of the Parachute Regiment was in high profile after its members ' achievements in the South Atlantic ; they had won two Victoria Crosses and had fought at Mount Longdon , Goose Green and Wireless Ridge . |
| 2 | The first school to take successful legal action to compel its own LEA to provide sufficient accommodation will gain a deserved reputation for looking after its pupils ' interests . |
| 3 | Each generation of workers is in effect paying for its predecessors ' pensions , in the confident hope that the next generation will pay for theirs . |
| 4 | The centre has implemented an effective system of induction , guidance and support for its candidates ' Appeals . |
| 5 | It took full advantage of its opponents ' weaknesses . |
| 6 | A party is regarded as acquiring control if it has the possibility of exercising " decisive influence " on another party in particular by ownership or the right to use all or part of the assets of the other party , or rights which confer decisive influence on the composition , voting or decisions of the other party 's board of directors or of its shareholders ' meetings . |
| 7 | How ICI halved the value of its shareholders ' funds 20 years of 10% a year inflation has had a significant impact on the accounts of ICI and GEC |
| 8 | A bill currently before parliament will abolish the present arbitrary rule that a company can only issue domestic corporate bonds up to twice the value of its shareholders ' funds . |
| 9 | Section 324 specifies that directors must disclose their shareholdings in the company in question and its related companies , while s.325 makes it obligatory for the company to keep a record of all of its directors ' interests . |
| 10 | AI simultaneously published the findings of its delegates ' visits to Iran and Turkey in May to interview Kurds , Arab Shi'a Muslims and others about human rights violations following the uprising in Iraq in March and April this year . |
| 11 | Inspired in part by Gandhi , Niyogi drew on Marx and Mao to create a non-dogmatic popular movement that integrated the work , social and cultural aspects of its members ' lives . |
| 12 | Seemingly almost every month a new product or service is launched to meet yet another of its members ' needs . |
| 13 | Mace claims that some $1bn of business has now been conducted on 88000-based system products , and claims , as the group often does , that there will be more converts to the cause — this time around there are five or six Intel Corp i860 manufacturers on its hitlist. 88open will open a European office this summer , either in the UK or Germany , which will use space rented in one of its members ' offices . |
| 14 | One of the other stock-market listed football clubs , Tottenham Hotspur , capitalises the cost of its players ' registrations and , after allowing for estimated residual values , amortises them over the period of the respective players ' contracts . |
| 15 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |
| 16 | It was not the administrative aspect , outlined in Brooksbank , which was in need of attention as much as the daily process of feeding change into a school through the conversion , retraining or updating of its teachers ' skills and through the introduction of both new materials and new perspectives in the build-up of subject knowledge and human skills . |
| 17 | It managed to avoid some of its rivals ' mistakes . |
| 18 | SynOptics Communications Inc has unveiled the first products based on its six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Moder chip set announced last October ( CI No 2,035 ) : the per-port price of the LattisCell switches ranges from under £1,500 to £2,000 , a half to a third of its competitors ' prices , says the company ; the Santa Clara company also has a technology partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to develop a 155Mbps asynchronous transfer mode SBus adaptor board that will be made and sold by SynOptics , enabling the LattisCell switches to be directly connected to Sparc systems running the Solaris Unix . |
| 19 | Practical PC is ever mindful of its readers ' wishes . |
| 20 | In most cases the cuckoo 's egg looks very like its hosts ' eggs . |
| 21 | They made no bones about the Standard 's intention to establish minimum rates and to deal with its members ' grievances on such issues as ballast-heaving while at sea . |
| 22 | In the 1950s , the flourishing Society decided to add the acquisition of art and antiquities to its activities , and began an omnivorous phase , accepting and pursuing works that had virtually no connection with its founders ' goals . |
| 23 | A fascinating satirical theme is never properly pushed to its limits and all concerned sadly bottle out , with plot and action drooping along with its protagonists ' derrieres . |
| 24 | If the ‘ Free Church Movement ’ was bound up , at least in its leaders ' minds with the cause of union , it was also bound up with politics , at least in the minds of its supporters . |
| 25 | The citizens of Pisa found , for a time , a convenient means of solving both its needs ; and the duomo was ( in its creators ' eyes ) a visible proof of God 's blessing on their endeavours . |
| 26 | There were railway patterns in its drapers ' shops , and railway journals in the windows of its newsmen . |
| 27 | There were railway patterns in its drapers ' shops , and railway journals in the windows of its newsmen . |
| 28 | Barring the Chippendales and now this talk of withholding Swan Lake from its citizens ' eyes will , I think , be small potatoes compared with the prospect of having homosexuals in the police force . |
| 29 | Below nestles the Culra bothy , surrounded by a thick green fog emanating from its occupants ' underpants , and to the north-west is the astonishing side of Beinn a' Chlachair . |
| 30 | The approach taken with its 6611 router , which encapsulates SNA within TCP/IP satisfies the multiprotocol yearnings of its customers , but has the disadvantage , from IBM 's point of view , of speeding the growth of non-SNA networks within its customers ' organisations . |