Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] on the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Iranian government maintained its neutrality on the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37696 ] , reacting cautiously to news of the allied attack on Iraq on Jan. 16 . |
| 2 | Concepts such as ‘ asking the wrong question ’ then simply function as the vehicle through which the court can substitute its views on the meaning of such phrases for that of the tribunal . |
| 3 | The process of gestation has its parallel on the psychological level . |
| 4 | The three-tined sai is a karate weapon that has its origins on the island of Okinawa . |
| 5 | In order to deal with the problem of means , the government says , we provide housing benefits and the subsidy , this is the government speaking , the subsidy goes into the demand , it goes into benefit there 'll be no subsidy left if the government has its way on the supply side . |
| 6 | Her thesis has its gaze on the exact detail of the exchange of cattle , goats , blankets , gourds and snuff , and it tries to establish by the comparative method that these customs are part of universal human practice . |
| 7 | Furthermore , British Rail has its eyes on the Bankside site for bringing up the spoil from the tunnel for Channel traffic which it is , so absurdly , driving under the middle of London at astronomical cost . |
| 8 | The tightness and speed of the narrative , too , has its effect on the direct , concrete prose style which , too often in the earlier books , had become prosy and had lost shape in informative interpolations . |
| 9 | Each of these has its effect on the difficulty of reading and interpreting the data , but not always in a highly predictable way . |
| 10 | when it comes in , pours in those , the house faces west er consequently although it 's very pleasant in the afternoon and evenings when you 're not watching television erm , it has its drawbacks on the other hand the garden is most unfortunately orientated alright ? |
| 11 | However , the company has its eye on the estimated 200 000 American children with ‘ normal variant short stature ’ , who produce growth hormone but apparently lack sufficient receptors to put it to work . |
| 12 | IXI has its eye on the very same area , but is still working on the details . |
| 13 | 5 Now think about what actually happens as your group starts its life on the island sometimes things go well ; sometimes not so well . |
| 14 | The buck thrashed and spat and made a high keening noise I did n't think rabbits were capable of and beat its legs on the ground . |
| 15 | The subroutine call instruction places its address on the SJNS ( pushing down all earlier entries ) and jumps to the specified store address . |
| 16 | Representing a reaction against the wish-dreams of the initial stage , realism is liable to assume a critical and somewhat cynical aspect … it places its emphasis on the acceptance of facts and on the analysis of their causes and consequences . |
| 17 | BR used press campaigns in the early 1980s to put the arguments for higher state support , basing its case on the higher subsidies of other European railways as a percentage of GNP . |
| 18 | This relationship takes the form of the Public Account Committee basing its investigations on the reports submitted by the C. and A.G. |
| 19 | Delrina is basing its pitch on the expected low cost of these modems relative to the cost of buying separate facsimile and answering machines , and the large installed base of Windows users with a single phone line who keep finding themselves talking to modems . |
| 20 | The state of Wisconsin is basing its appeal on the fact that intent and emotion — passion , envy , fear — are often weighed in the balance in sentencing already . |
| 21 | The latter case found its way on the front page of the Sunday People under the headline BEAUTY QUEEN 'S LIFE OF CRIME Terrorised wife 's story . |
| 22 | This should allow ample time to enable each branch to finalise its comments on the plan . |
| 23 | In a Wales Tourist Board report , Cadw , the Welsh Office agency responsible for historic monuments , is criticised as a South Wales based organisation which concentrated its efforts on the top 20 attractions . |
| 24 | The NFER project team concentrated its investigations on the technical issues of devising evidence of positive achievement at different levels , and the organizational problems perceived by teachers working with the project team in implementing a graduated test scheme . |
| 25 | If one took analogies seriously and from such a definition … of ‘ so-called primitive capitalist accumulation ’ , then literally the whole of capitalism , right up to its death would end up in the ‘ pre-history ’ of capitalism : for capitalism obtains surplus profits from ‘ third persons ’ throughout its entire existence ; there is and will be no such stage in the life of capitalism when profits were not to come its way on the basis of exploitation of third persons . |
| 26 | Perhaps the new committee should concentrate its efforts on the ends of the age spectrum and ignore the middle . |
| 27 | In a further indication of the desire among party members to see an end to the public attacks , David Clark , the convener of Motherwell North SNP — which includes the Mossend branch — called on the party to unite and concentrate its attacks on the Conservatives and Labour . |
| 28 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 29 | It aims to keep things that way by launching a High Court copyright action against British software designer Codemasters which is about to launch its games on the market . |
| 30 | UNITED Biscuits , the food conglomerate , yesterday moved to tighten its grip on the UK snacks market with the £24 million takeover of Derwent Valley Food Group , makers of Phileas Fogg snacks . |