Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike its classic American predecessor , from whom Rudner and Bergman have shamelessly pinched not only the basic scenario but also many a vignette along the way , Peter 's Friends never unfolds its characters with any psychological depth or surprise . |
| 2 | The manufacturer and the defendant in the case , Merrell Dow ( now Marion Merrell Dow of Kansas City ) , has consistently won its case in some 200 lawsuits brought by parents who claim that Bendectin is a teratogen . |
| 3 | This subjective impression among left-wing intellectuals such as Aragon and Nizan that the Soviet experiment would in some way resolve the contradictions of the writer/intellectual ensnared in the alienating social relations of capitalism is a key factor in explaining its attractiveness for dissident French writers in the 1930s . |
| 4 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 5 | County Durham needs its pockets of green land and wildlife habitats for endangered species . |
| 6 | Forty four members were nominated to service on ARCUK Council and the Institute maintained its representation on all ARCUK committees . |
| 7 | The nationalist government of Edward Fenech Adami maintained its policy of encouraging West European investment [ see p. 37014 ] , liberalizing trade and foreign investment , removing import licences , and promoting export industries and private-sector employment . |
| 8 | The Chatichai government maintained its policy of increased support for the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) and the Vietnam governments alongside a sterner approach towards the Thai-based Cambodian resistance . |
| 9 | In response , Baghdad maintained its attacks on Kurdish centres , sometimes making use of Sudanese mercenaries who were particularly hated by the Kurds . |
| 10 | Although it has mended its ways in recent years , the NRDC deserves some of the criticism that has come its way . |
| 11 | Those of use who have worked so hard to ensure that the UK retained its position as one of the world 's leaders in fast reactor technology must register disappointment following the Government 's decision to cease funding our participation in the European Fast Reactor R&D programme . |
| 12 | By 1985 it had overtaken the latter , reaching $25m. , and retained its position in 1986 with $30m. and in 1987 with $35m . |
| 13 | Sri Lankan newspaper stands its ground on human rights |
| 14 | One of the characteristics of judicial review is that the supervising court does not substitute its decision for that of the public authority ; rather it leaves it to the body to make good its illegal behaviour by making a fresh decision which complies with the requirements of the law . |
| 15 | The court accepted that it should not substitute its judgment for that of the agency . |
| 16 | Lord Greene M.R. stressed that the court should not substitute its view for that of the corporation , and then proceeded to examine what the term unreasonableness meant in this context . |
| 17 | " While each school will be different in terms of decision-making on computer and financial matters and different committees will exist , the mechanisms for acquiring a microcomputer and justifying its acquisition in educational terms , will be similar in all schools . |
| 18 | In the immediate aftermath of war , the Conservative Party had organised its understanding of juvenile crime around different assumptions . |
| 19 | Team pits its wits against rival firms |
| 20 | It is a spiritual community which owes its unity to common beliefs and a common attitude to life , far more than to any uniformity of physical type . |
| 21 | Many other breeds have white faces , too , but not necessarily from Hereford or Simmental blood , though the Kazakh Whiteheaded ( USSR ) owes its origins to imported Herefords crossed with the native Kazakh in the 1920s , while the Canadian black or red Hays Converter 's white face can be traced to its Hereford origins in the early 1950s . |
| 22 | The Great Barrier Reef , which hugs the north-east shore of Australia for 2000 kilometres , owes its existence to millions of tiny animals called coral polyps . |
| 23 | Frelimo in Mozambique is one example of a movement which owes its success to cold war tensions . |
| 24 | Cawsand owes its survival to one wide-awake villager . |
| 25 | In fact almost every large Greek bronze we have owes its survival to some accident which sequestered it in antiquity : a shipwreck , a fall of rock . |
| 26 | However much the relative values of particular substances vary from one culture to another , each one owes its status to physical attributes . |
| 27 | Mercedes-Benz , Siemens and Bayer do not owe their success to the Bundesbank : the Bundesbank owes its strength to German industrial progress . |
| 28 | The USA would boost its presence with F-111 fighter aircraft at the US/NATO Incirlik airbase , where UK and French fighter planes would also continue to be based . |
| 29 | Assurances Generales de France will boost its share to 18 per cent from 5 per cent , while Credit Lyonnais will rise to 18 per cent from 10 per cent . |
| 30 | To get round this , the ant stations its herds of mealy bugs on fresh young foliage — as that is where the most wholesome sap is to be found — and when the level of amino acids drops , it simply ups and moves the bugs to a more nutritious spot . |