Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The drought has its origins in a persistent pattern of atmospheric circulation that has affected the whole of the southern hemisphere , bringing drought also to South Africa and parts of South America , and probably related to the return of El Nino , a surge of warm ocean water off the western seaboard of South America ( see box ) . |
| 9 | The Branch , which is known locally as Bolton 's oldest bank , has its origins in a banking partnership formed in 1818 by five businessman — Robert Barlow , wine merchant , Thomas Hardcastle and James Ormrod , cotton spinners , and James Cross and Thomas Rushton , solicitors . |
| 10 | There are suggestions the duo already has its eyes on a French food business . |
| 11 | The system has its drawbacks as a response to school truancy . |
| 12 | No one loves plutonium , but equally a tamed carbon-free and virtually inexhaustible fuel has its attractions in a world in which increasing demands are made on finite energy resources . |
| 13 | The following might be regarded as excessive restrictions : ( 1 ) an attempt to prevent a qualified solicitor from setting up a specialist practice in a field in which his former firm has never before undertaken work and has no plans to start accepting instructions ; ( 2 ) an attempt to prevent an outgoing partner from accepting instructions from any person or firm ( whether or not a client or former client of his former firm ) within a prescribed area ; ( 3 ) a general area restraint where the outgoing partner 's former firm has its offices in a location where competition is already intense . |
| 14 | The Dundee disease has its roots in a virus called money . |
| 15 | It has its roots in a sermon preached in 1900 by Rev. Spencer Jones who was an anglican vicar seeking reunion with the Church of Rome . |
| 16 | The last of those three comments was , it is true , written almost fifteen years ago , long before the more than ‘ adequate ’ gay images of My Beautiful Laundrette or Law of Desire or Torch Song Trilogy , but I think the general point stands : before we stampede to dispense with ‘ identity ’ , let us consider whether it still has its uses as a rallying point for political action . |
| 17 | Girding its loins for a deeper plunge into the commercial market , Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced a strategic relationship with Lotus Development Corp that will see Lotus Notes , cc:Mail , Ami Pro and Freelance Graphics ported to its first native Unix platform , HP/UX . |
| 18 | The winchman was signalled to lower slightly whereupon the kibble pivoted over and discharged its contents into a chute feeding a hopper . |
| 19 | The Operator Terminal must have a fixed terminal address or Decserver port so that Offline can direct its messages to a known and expected destination . |
| 20 | To serve the international market and provide its customers with a broader selection of products and services , two further companies have been integrated into NDT Systems . |
| 21 | The Digital board , which is reviewing its international operation and cutting 25,000 jobs from a worldwide payroll of 102,000 , intends to concentrate its resources on a single computer manufacturing base for ease of access to the European market . |
| 22 | SynOptics is basing its hopes on a six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Mode chip set developed in partnership with Washington State University . |
| 23 | TSB , the bank that likes to say yes , found its shareholders in a less than positive frame of mind at its somewhat stormy agm in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 24 | The smell would catch its victims as a spider 's web ensnares a fly . |
| 25 | Recently , Sears in the UK announced a plan to provide its suppliers with a direct link to Sears ' high street shops , such as Selfridges , using BT 's EDI Net and Global Network Services ( GNS ) , BT 's managed data network providing links to over 100 countries . |
| 26 | Like many other organisations , the Institute has decided to introduce Direct Dialling Inwards ( DDI ) to provide its customers with a direct access to services and staff . |
| 27 | This manual is intended to provide its readers with a general understanding of what LIFESPAN is , what it does and how it is used . |
| 28 | The school is designed to provide its participants with a thorough understanding of all aspects of the recording and production process , both theoretical and practical , with guest speakers outlining the opportunities and challenges facing upcoming talent . |
| 29 | The P&O Group aims to meet its responsibilities through a variety of means as appropriate to the industries in which its companies operate . |
| 30 | A public rift in Catholic politics surfaced last week when the Communion and Liberation movement severed its ties with a powerful weekly magazine , Il Sabato , run by Andreotti supporters . |