Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MAFF is to allow scientists proposed by consumer groups to sit on its Advisory Committee on Pesticides . |
| 2 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
| 3 | THE Courtaulds Coatings site at Felling , UK , now has a Heartbeat healthy eating award to go with its sparkling new restaurant . |
| 4 | The Cambridge board clearly perceived the Circular ; s exhortation as an opportunity to provide through its Rural Areas committee ( RAC ) both the forum and the mechanism called for and thus to develop its own role and expand its activities within a triumvirate of providers . |
| 5 | The first female is then shot a second time , and as the confused baby attempts to suckle from its dying mother , it too is despatched with a single bullet . ’ |
| 6 | The government of President Luis Alberto Lacalle claimed a clear mandate to proceed with its controversial programme to sell off state assets [ see pp. 38286 ; 38528 ] , when a special poll on July 5 failed to raise sufficient public support for a referendum . |
| 7 | I can see no basis in principle for holding that a municipal corporation , empowered by statute to sue in its corporate name , can not maintain an action for libel . |
| 8 | And that 's truer than ever today , when even an ordinary family saloon is powered by a highly sophisticated engine that depends on the right lubrication to perform at its best . |
| 9 | A third suggestion is that the black and white stripes dazzle the lion when it gets very close to its prey and make it difficult for the killer to concentrate on its fast-moving victim . |
| 10 | If a barchan formed by the prevailing wind ( Fig. 11.7A ) is subject to a strong wind from another direction ( Y on Fig. 11.7B ) , it will tend to swing round with the development of an incipient new wing at C and the overdevelopment of wing A. If the prevailing wind , X , again dominates , there will be a tendency for the dune to revert to its original form ( Fig. 11.7C ) . |
| 11 | This can be solved by a provision enabling either one of the parties to apply on its own . |
| 12 | King Husayn used this situation to persuade the PLO to embark upon its risky alliance with Jordan in pursuit of a peace solution , which finally collapsed in early 1986 . |
| 13 | Switching to the middle position allowed the neck pickup to play with its natural sound . |
| 14 | The ridge survived until a storm in 1910 , when it was breached in the middle , thus causing the harbour to revert to its former double spit state . |
| 15 | One half expects a ruffled , doubleted figure to emerge from its grand doorway . |
| 16 | In G. lamarcki ( Fig. 8 ) the disk is densely covered by small , skin-covered granules causing several authors to remark on its velvet-like appearance . |
| 17 | The secretary of the treasury himself ( 28 June ) also noted that Britain 's problems were now too large for the United States to solve with its own resources . |
| 18 | At the same time , however strong the desire to cut defence costs and to give priority to home affairs , too much had happened since the mid-1930s for the United States to return to its prewar foreign and defence policies . |
| 19 | How about the BMA really setting the government an example by ( a ) encouraging all its disabled staff to register as disabled with guarantees of no discrimination , and ( b ) taking prompt action to move from its current level of 1.5% of workforce disabled , towards the 3% target as laid out in the 1944 Disabled Persons Employment Act ? |
| 20 | If radio had depended on advertising revenue to operate on its 1940s scale , TV would have killed it . |
| 21 | It was always envisaged that the House of Lords would use the freedom to depart from its own previous decisions sparingly , but in the years following the Practice Statement the potential impact of the new freedom was narrowed by the addition of a series of riders . |
| 22 | Microsoft chose to drop its OS/2 development and concentrate on Windows , leaving IBM to continue on its own . |
| 23 | The family must demonstrate that it has the capacity to work with its conscious or unconscious feelings of threat from blacks . |
| 24 | To be more precise , the maximum odds against the origin of life on any one planet that our theories are allowed to postulate , is the number of available planets in the universe divided by the odds that life , once started , will evolve sufficient intelligence to speculate about its own origins . |
| 25 | It may seem a little strange that ‘ sufficient intelligence to speculate about its own origins ’ is a relevant variable . |
| 26 | You will want your home to look at its best . |
| 27 | Throughout the dispute Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , declared the government 's determination to adhere to its original offer of a 9 per cent increase over 18 months ( up to 16.3 per cent for the most highly qualified personnel ) . |
| 28 | Paul O'Grady remains chairman of Micro Focus Plc and Brian Reynolds a director , but the Coboller has set up a four-man management committee to act as its chief executive : the committee will consist of John Beggs , who has become president of worldwide sales after the creation of a single sales force , Paul Adams , the new president of products and business development , Bob Connors , who becomes chief operating officer and Ron Forbes , who remains chief finance and administrative officer , the company said . |
| 29 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 30 | Now that society is at last recognizing and developing the full range of women 's abilities and now that women are seen to have , with men , full ‘ human rights ’ , many people conclude that it is time for the Church of England to embody in its official ministry the biblical vision of equal partnership between women and men . |