Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Wellcome Foundation Limited owes its origins to the formation of the partnership Burroughs Wellcome Co in 1880 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is right that every household should know its rights under the NHS . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A program allows one to frequently modify the hypertext database and test its consequences for the linear form . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The iron law of oligarchy has its foundations in the logic of collective action . |
| 21 | The Actuarial profession has its foundations in the practice of life assurance in the early to mid-19th century . |
| 22 | It has its pointers to the future , but I would have forgiven any Vienna professor in 1876 who failed to predict what was to follow . |
| 23 | One final area which requires some discussion is the question of whether advertising has its effects in the short or long term . |
| 24 | The three-tined sai is a karate weapon that has its origins on the island of Okinawa . |
| 25 | It is the outcome of a process which , for Harkabi , has its origins in the Israelis ' overwhelming , intoxicating victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 26 | The sterling standard for silver ( 925 parts per thousand of silver with the remainder being mainly copper ) has its origins in the fourteenth century and has continued virtually without interruption to the present day . |
| 27 | While this has its origins in the manipulation of plant and animal species that began c. 10 kyr BP ( section 3.3 ) it has been confined to plant and animal breeding programmes . |
| 28 | The proposed Clothing Industry Management degree has its origins in the perceived need in the clothing industry for well-educated managers to ensure a viable future . |
| 29 | They , exclusive of all other species , are free to choose , and in the final analysis , that instinct which has its origins in the mammalian family life is most likely to take precedence , and humans will choose to live with the relatively small family group as the ultimate refuge . |
| 30 | The Geological Survey of Great Britain has its origins in the early work of the Ordnance Survey and in the research of eminent members of the Geological Society of London . |