Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | cracking its knuckles to pass the time . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the Commission also pursued its efforts to force the return of illicit state payments to industries . |
| 3 | As will become clearer , each State may have its own mechanisms enabling its courts to authorise the service of process or the taking of evidence outside its territorial jurisdiction ; there may also be measures of compulsion available against persons within the jurisdiction which enable the court effectively to secure evidence or information even though the primary sources of information are abroad . |
| 4 | The Independent Broadcasting Authority is an example of a licensing body which has on occasion used its powers to stop the broadcasting of items of borderline legality . |
| 5 | Instead , they recognised the value of superior workmanship and used its products to honour the gods who were intermediaries between man and the infinite power of the universe . |
| 6 | It encourages its employees to do the same on an individual basis . |
| 7 | At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s . |
| 8 | Christ 's Hospital had been founded in 1553 for the ‘ orphaned , aged and sick poor ’ , but by the time of Coleridge 's arrival it had long outgrown its origins to become the foremost of England 's charity schools . |
| 9 | The woodpecker finch can even modify its tools to suit the situation ; cactus spines may be cut down until they are the correct length , and twigs may have their side branches nipped off . |
| 10 | He said that there had been unprecedented civilian involvement in the coup attempt and that the government did not want its opponents to exploit the situation through the media . |
| 11 | The government had on Dec. 2 announced its plans to restructure the coal industry . |
| 12 | Nor is doling out rewards in tiny instalments the only restriction that a plant may impose in order to compel its pollen-carriers to provide the service it requires . |
| 13 | On 23 March 1934 , members of the Communist League informed the ILP that the International Communist League had disbanded its British section and advised its members to join the Independent Labour Party . |
| 14 | Belgium advised its nationals to leave the country without delay , but refused Mobutu 's demand that it withdraw its troops immediately . |
| 15 | This process , begun in 1946 with the acclaim for Great Expectations , reached its peak with the 1974 publication of Masterworks of the British Cinema , a book that included the script of Brief Encounter but zealously forbade its readers to praise the man who wrote it : ‘ Brief Encounter , indeed , constitutes almost a declaration of independence on Lean 's part from his fruitful but by 1945 no doubt increasingly constricting association with Coward 's writing . ’ |
| 16 | These dark red molecules do not absorb far-red light , however , and the piranha 's far-red shifted vision allows its eyes to pierce the gloom . |
| 17 | IMI 's UNIPLEX OUTLINES ITS PLANS TO DOMINATE THE GROUPWARE MARKET |
| 18 | 7.2 If the Supplier shall become substantially unable , whether for reasons within or beyond its control , to fulfil its obligations to supply the Products to the Company in accordance with any purchase orders outstanding at any time and , ( after the Company has notified the Supplier in writing of such default ) the Supplier shall not have remedied the same within a period of 90 days from the receipt of such notice , then the Company shall be entitled to terminate this Agreement forthwith , and obtain supplies of the Products from third parties . |
| 19 | THE IRA yesterday renewed its efforts to shift the blame for the weekend 's bomb atrocity at Warrington , as the police followed up lines of inquiry from 300 calls to a special hotline . |
| 20 | Between 1981 and 1985 , more stringent controls were placed upon local government finance , and from time to time the government renewed its efforts to interest the private sector in the inner cities . |
| 21 | The Botswana government is keeping open its options to dredge the area in the future , if it feels that this is necessary . |
| 22 | Where the wind blows from one direction at a time , with a prevailing bias , in tenderness or fury , and every tree must flex its fibres to withstand the stresses of life , there we find asymmetry . |
| 23 | While the court will not permit technical infringement of the rules to defeat the ends of justice , where a requirement affecting the essential rights of a contemnor has not been complied with , this court will not use its powers to correct the order . |
| 24 | By requiring its practitioners to possess the moral prestige necessary to guide , Indirect Rule seemed to ensure that they also possessed the means whereby , in the absence of any overwhelming display of physical superiority , they could govern . |
| 25 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |
| 26 | In the 1924 election manifesto , the Labour party explained that it was by the international record of the Government , rather than by any direct schemes of job creation , that the electorate should judge its efforts to solve the problem of unemployment . |
| 27 | The image of grass is therefore ambivalent , and nothing in the lines preceding our present text has conditioned its readers to interpret the image of line A in the way that line B requires . |
| 28 | The Government will normally have a majority and even if defeated , can reintroduce the measure and pressurise its supporters to defeat the motion . |
| 29 | The NSFU " urged its members to assist the government in every possible way and has in numerous cases been the means of healing differences and preventing stoppages " . |
| 30 | Although Novell could have depleted its reserves to make the purchase , why should they ? |