Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] its [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’ |
| 2 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 3 | Alternatively , use mushrooms , one of which has its stem for the trunk portion . |
| 4 | The station which renewed its licence for only £2,000 a year made bumper sales to the ITV network with Taggart and Wheel of Fortune . |
| 5 | I was a member of AMMA for eight years and I understand its concerns , but I have quoted the brief which shows its support for the Bill 's underlying aims . |
| 6 | CONTRACT catering giant Compass — which aborted its bid for Gardner Merchant — has pushed pre-tax profits from £32m to Pounds 34.9m for the year to September . |
| 7 | This wide boulevard forms the impressive ( some would say interminable ) Viale delle Regioni , which winds its way for miles through what were once the Milanese suburbs , and which today form an area close to the heart of metropolitan Milan . |
| 8 | Fortunately , the recent freeing of the UN from its ideological rancour , which crippled its effectiveness for so long , has now largely ended . |
| 9 | you mean its kind for architects |
| 10 | It should allow access by different fields , so that , for example , a teacher should be able to inquire whether a particular item has arrived in the library by identifying the author or the title of the item or by giving the name of the teacher who recommended its acquisition for the school library . |
| 11 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 12 | Allan Roberts raised the issue because he realised its importance for lesbian and gay liberation , but he then tried to dismiss it because he also realised that even to articulate the question ran counter to Labour 's ‘ duty to win ’ . |
| 13 | He says its devestating for the driver . |
| 14 | Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines . |
| 15 | The department planned to spend £140 million this year in what it calls its support for innovation programme . |
| 16 | It 's environmental benefits may be undisputed , but it seems its suitability for the car engine has now come into question . |
| 17 | The organization nevertheless attracted 50,000 supporters to a rally in central Sofia on Jan. 14 when it presented its platform for the round table talks . |
| 18 | The figures , in what the company described as the worst economic conditions for almost half a century , enabled it to boost its dividend for shareholders . |