Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] its [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , despite the state 's vast law-enforcement apparatus it appears increasingly incapable of securing and maintaining for its citizens the wholesomeness and amenity of their physical environment , or even the long-term physical well-being of the citizens themselves . |
| 2 | The Bank has among its responsibilities the management of the monetary system and the duty to ensure that sound banking principles are observed . |
| 3 | The additional opportunity provided by the STV to rank that party 's candidates in an order of preference is according to its advocates the system 's chief merit . |
| 4 | The British National Bibliography Research Fund , established in 1975 , includes amongst its aims the promotion of research into the use of books and into reading habits , and has achieved an impact beyond its modest resources — as a glance at the bibliography of this book will show . |
| 5 | Thus Hindu society bestows on its women the paradoxical nature of having power which is both beneficial and dangerous . |
| 6 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 7 | The date , and the exiled place of composition of its authors , suggests tellingly that the situation with which it attempts to deal is the phenomenon of fascism which seemed to have stopped in its tracks the long march of the progress of reason , and its liberating enlightenment ideals , of which Marxism was the fullest political development . |
| 8 | This is so whether or not the business has actually received from its customers the money on which the VAT is due . |
| 9 | The Neue Sachlichkeit ( ‘ New Objectivity ’ ) movement in Switzerland and Germany included among its dogmas the belief that ‘ the world is beautiful . ’ |
| 10 | At the second attempt he presented voters with a painstakingly worked out proposal which included among its measures the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society , the right of natives to govern themselves and reform of the senate . |
| 11 | But far from resting on its laurels the company now plans to make major inroads in the American market . |
| 12 | While city agencies have argued that the encouragement of higher income groups into a low- or moderate-income area has a stabilising effect , the lobbying efforts of an apparently unrepresentative group , which also counted amongst its achievements the zone enforcement in respect of unlicensed multi-occupancy property and the installation of street furniture with public funding in character with the prestigious Deutschland Square development , raise the question of stability for whom . |
| 13 | The old kingdom of Valencia contained within its borders the contrasts typical of Spain . |
| 14 | Political realism is the oldest , and potentially the most influential , approach to global politics , having its origins in the wars between the city-states of ancient Greece and claiming among its antecedents the writings of Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes . |
| 15 | The first , in the West End , had as its clients the peerage and gentry rather than the mercantile classes . |
| 16 | The train will then head for London , bearing amongst its passengers the winners of the Scotsman competition , details of which are in the previous column . |
| 17 | The accompanying gift for the gentlemen of the day , described as an aide , was a red leather pocket book containing an identical list of names ; and quite by chance during her researches Mrs Lamport visited a museum which had in its archives the partner book to her fan . |
| 18 | This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities . |
| 19 | From this spring the PPA will officially and exclusively endorse the Picture Lions list , stressing to its members the value of the range and recommending 10 titles on a quarterly basis . |
| 20 | But at the same time , away from public scrutiny , many of these same stores reduced the risk of their credit being abused through a semi-secret organization known as The Mutual Communications Society which circulated to its members the names of habitual defaulters . |
| 21 | Sybaris had been destroyed by its neighbours the men of Kroton in 510 BC ; the mid-fifth-century recovery , organized by Athens , coincides with a attested corn-shortage in mainland Greece : an Egyptian pharaoh , in revolt from Persia , gave Athens 40,000 sacks of corn in the 440s . |