Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] its [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF was expected to signal its support for Tanzania 's economic reforms by approving an enhanced structural adjustment facility early in 1991 . |
| 2 | The Asdex tokamak at Garching in West Germany has what is known as a ‘ poloidal divertor ’ and holds the record for the duration of a plasma in a tokamak — Asdex has sustained its plasma for 10 seconds . |
| 3 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 4 | Carron Phoenix , the Glasgow sink manufacturer which has withdrawn its recommendation for French company Bene 's bid , could receive an offer from 6.4 per cent shareholder Franke of Germany . |
| 5 | The hospital has overspent its budget for this financial year by £70,000 . |
| 6 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 7 | The Association of Directors of Social Services has given its approval for this research proposal . |
| 8 | The government has given its approval for sale of electricity , generated by the station , to regional electricity companies , as part of its scheme to encourage use of renewable energy . |
| 9 | The SFO has earned its reputation for bringing cases to trial with glacial slowness . |
| 10 | The five , who comprise the four founding directors of Our Price and a senior executive , have agreed to pay WH Smith 's costs and WH Smith has dropped its claim for damages . |
| 11 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 12 | The Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service has upgraded its software for designing shell and tube heat exchangers to run on Microsoft Windows . |
| 13 | The company is committed developing its reputation for factual and reference books . |
| 14 | But now Tewkesbury Borough Council which owns the theatre has decided its time for a change in managment … and this means Stan Stennett has to go . |
| 15 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 16 | AMP has made its play for Pearl as part of long-term expansion plans . |
| 17 | ’ Scottish Homes has had its budget for rent and ownership building programmes more than doubled for 1993/4 . |
| 18 | The union has reiterated its wish for an agreement , but has continued to negotiate individually with companies that are willing to meets its claims , which include an extra day 's holiday from next year . |
| 19 | The Ministry of Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries is expected to use its supercomputer for the rice genome project at the National Institute of Agrobiological Resources in Tsukuba , but the ministry has yet to reveal its plans . |
| 20 | But the corporation is ‘ delighted ’ that the government has recognised its claim for an extra VHF network for Radio I , which since 1967 has largely been confined to the medium wave band . |
| 21 | Application of the technique to mammalian spermatocytes , pioneered by Moses ( 37–39 ) , has demonstrated its potential for the analysis of the behaviour of chromosome abnormalities at meiotic prophase as well as the analysis of normal meiotic development . |
| 22 | Third , the plasma has to retain its energy for at least a second in order that enough reactions take place to deliver more energy than was consumed in setting the system up . |
| 23 | The Brasher Hillmaster is a well established boot which has proved its suitability for three season walking . |
| 24 | It has proved its worth for the church and the state and it is supported by the leadership of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats . |
| 25 | Swiss manufacturer Pilatus has abandoned its search for a risk-sharing partner for development of the PC-12 single turboprop utility aircraft and approved funding for production of an initial batch of 35 aircraft . |
| 26 | The Fed has cut its target for the federal-funds rate five times in the past three months , to 6.75% . |
| 27 | Other academic studies have agreed that Westminster has increased its capacity for scrutiny and influence on policy over recent years , not decreased it . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the institute has increased its prediction for unemployment , which it now thinks will peak at 3.2 million in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 29 | But although the Criminal Law Revision Committee has declared its support for the present age of consent , its proposals concerning the mental element in sections 5 and 6 can serve only to undermine it . |
| 30 | Yesterday 's board meeting issued a statement which said : ‘ The board of MGN has reaffirmed its support for the business policies , previously adopted unanimously by the board , for the future of the group . ’ |