Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having described what the Chart qua graph looks like we must now consider its properties as a process . |
| 2 | Similarly , the board of the selling company must consider its responsibilities to the company , its shareholders , its employees and , where insolvency is a possibility , its creditors . |
| 3 | First , the club could not afford large-scale spending on players : the payment of £200 for Lloyd Davies in 1907 strained its resources to the limit . |
| 4 | When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies . |
| 5 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
| 6 | He also stated that his government would confine its discussions with the federal government to matters of immigration , communications and labour , and would maintain bilateral relations with individual provinces on issues of mutual concern . |
| 7 | The argument is , then , that a greater surplus can be extracted from this sector by not employing its members on a regular wage-earning basis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet no election campaign has been as unctuously hostile to wealth as the Labour one of 1992 in justifying its policies about the poll tax , the health service , education , and national and local taxation ; and nothing in the public packaging operation left any reason to suppose the Labour Party had abandoned the assumptions of the 1960s . |
| 10 | As the Young family regularly pits its wits against the Mastermind contenders with spectacular lack of success most Sundays , I was expected to do better than usual . |
| 11 | Now a professional football club playing in the 4th Division of the English football league , it owes its origins to a team formed by the pupils and staff of the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 12 | TMAM owes its origins to the Wealden Aviation Archaeological Group ( WAAG ) , who were active in the 1970s recovering material from crash sites in southern England . |
| 13 | The Wellcome Foundation Limited owes its origins to the formation of the partnership Burroughs Wellcome Co in 1880 . |
| 14 | This land-ownership study really owes its roots to a challenge which the Alliance made to the Appalachian Regional Commission ( ARC ) , the government organisation concerned with regional development throughout Appalachia . |
| 15 | Although it will be easily grasped that war destroys large amounts of material means of production and means of consumption , he went further and analysed its effects upon the forces of production and the accumulation of capital . |
| 16 | Now I think of an animal or a small child depositing its excreta in the wrong place so as to annoy its owner or parent . |
| 17 | The election of a unashamedly right-wing leader , John Smith , should free its members from the loyalty oaths of the Kinnock era , particularly if shadow cabinet jobs are crudely dished out to his supporters . |
| 18 | The government can make its value judgements about distribution or equality and can pursue its views about the desirable degree of vertical equity without impairing the efficient functioning of a free market economy . |
| 19 | Having sifted through the views of countless organizations , through its technical appraisals , through computer assessments , it had concluded that there were just two places where it would pursue its investigations for an underground dump . |
| 20 | Although Goldmann accepts the significance of the social determination of knowledge thesis for epistemology he does not pursue its implications for the Marxist concept of ideology . |
| 21 | The Soviet and East European participants , however , were obliged in return to give their agreement to the so-called ‘ Basket 3 ’ , which concerned the movement of people and ideas between East and West in areas such as tourism , the reunification of families and access to printed and other media The Final Act also committed its signatories to a series of follow-up meetings , designed to monitor the fulfilment of the agreement ; the first of these was held in Belgrade in 1977 , and the second in Madrid in 1980 . |
| 22 | The revised draft committed its participants to a ‘ sovereign federal democratic state ’ based upon a voluntary union of republics with equal rights , each of which would have the right to choose its own forms of property and government . |
| 23 | In early November the Sudanese government forcibly closed the Christian Heilat Shouk refugee camp and moved its occupants to an area 30 km outside Khartoum . |
| 24 | It is right that every household should know its rights under the NHS . |
| 25 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 26 | A program allows one to frequently modify the hypertext database and test its consequences for the linear form . |
| 27 | Any extinguishing agent which develops its effects in the same direction must be capable of overtaking the flame front if it is to have an acceptable limiting influence on potential damage . |
| 28 | But Portsmouth also has its problems within the F M R O and it was with interest walking round the town last night , I saw that Charles the Second fortified this town to a greater deg extent using . |
| 29 | The iron law of oligarchy has its foundations in the logic of collective action . |
| 30 | The Actuarial profession has its foundations in the practice of life assurance in the early to mid-19th century . |