Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , of course , unless an applicant with standing applies in time for certiorari and the court exercises its discretion in the applicant 's favour , the decision , though wrong , will remain valid for ever . |
| 2 | The essence of the balance sheet is that the sum of the fixed and current assets shall equal the capital employed , thus explaining its use in the company . |
| 3 | The essence of the balance sheet is that the sum of the fixed and current assets shall equal the capital employed , thus explaining its use in the company . |
| 4 | Only the Kandyan Kingdom maintained its independence in the interior . |
| 5 | But the Authority also maintained its faith in the existing gas-cooled design . |
| 6 | The SDLP retained its hold in the Northlands area where it returned five out of the seven seats available . |
| 7 | For He did swim across the river : This involves the virtual person of the infinitive occupying the same position(s) in time as the actual person which specifies its rank in the auxiliary , and so to is not necessary . |
| 8 | It is n't necessary to tell you that the West Riding owes its position in the vanguard of educational thinking and practice to a few people , of whom Basil was one of the most distinguished , and the work he has done will still go on . |
| 9 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Charleston has continued to supervise its health in the US . |
| 12 | It would be easier , he thinks , at dawn , to fix his gaze steadily on one particular light and then to establish its place in the returning landscape . |
| 13 | For one team 's desperate desire to establish its worth in the scrums , Toks has had to play the price of a life confined to a wheelchair , a need for 24-hour-a-day attendants , and an almost total loss of his business and social aspirations . |
| 14 | While his explanations do not seem clearly to separate older arguments about managers under- or over-investing from the impact of the business-cycle stage itself , it does seem clear that investment at the right time , i.e. early in the product life-cycle , does lead to increased ROI if management is able to establish its product in the market place and control costs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Highlands and Islands Integrated Development Programme in the UK has its equivalent in the Lozere department but no IDP exists in the Auvergne and the implications for nature conservation of these programmes would have to be the subject of a specific study when their impact is clearer . |
| 17 | The aristocratic disdain for manual labour has its counterpart in the Situationist ’ attitude to the working class considered as the moronised victims of the spectacle . |
| 18 | The iron law of oligarchy has its foundations in the logic of collective action . |
| 19 | The Actuarial profession has its foundations in the practice of life assurance in the early to mid-19th century . |
| 20 | A company called Popperfoto , which owns one of the world 's largest photographic libraries , now has its headquarters in the region , and Central South has had the rare privilege of being allowed free access to its contents . |
| 21 | His dance throughout has its base in the classical vocabulary but MacMillan has coloured it by gestures from cabaret and vaudeville dance traditions , which serve to reveal not only class differences in behaviour but also genuine feelings . |
| 22 | Some of the most compelling evidence comes from Tony Vine-Lott , the managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd , which has its base in the heart of Glasgow where 300 of its 500 staff work . |
| 23 | If uneven development has its foundation in the unequal division of labour in society , then over time regional inequality will change , not only in its geographical pattern , but also in its nature , as the division of labour in society changes . |
| 24 | The idea has its parallel in the ever-higher smoke stacks and ever-longer sewage outfalls which were designed to export pollution problems as far as possible from their source . |
| 25 | The idea has its parallel in the ever-higher smoke stacks and ever-longer sewage outfalls which were designed to export pollution problems as far as possible from their source . |
| 26 | One final area which requires some discussion is the question of whether advertising has its effects in the short or long term . |
| 27 | It is possible that those who work in education , even at senior management level , lack the confidence to press for this sort of recognition ; a diffidence which has its origin in the perceived ‘ otherness ’ referred to above , combined with the erroneous view that education has little or nothing to offer a commercial board-room . |
| 28 | This has its origin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Japan realised it needed natural resources from overseas in order to industrialise effectively to compete with the West . |
| 29 | The purist will point out that every aircraft accident results from human error of some kind ; even the most complex technical failure has its origin in the work of a designer , manufacturer or maintenance engineer somewhere , and so-called ‘ acts of God ’ such as structural failure in extreme turbulence beyond the limits of airworthiness criteria are no more than failures of airworthiness engineers to assess the limits correctly . |
| 30 | For example , the mobile meals services has its origin in the need to provide food to those whose homes had been destroyed by bombing during the war . |