Example sentences of "[adj] of its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The-table was now clear of its ghastly remains , the floor had been swept clear of its litter . |
| 2 | More than 70 per cent of Australia 's rain forests and half of its other forests have been destroyed . |
| 3 | In a deal signed at Pakistan 's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources last month , LASMO Oil Pakistan [ LOPL ] assigned half of its working interest in its block 36 licence to Shell , marking the oil giant 's return to the country after nearly 10 years . |
| 4 | The microchip company has told more than half of its 216 staff that they must move to Germany next year — or face redundancy . |
| 5 | By the late 1970s , about half of its industrial output came from its fifty largest companies , many of which were multinationals . |
| 6 | Members of the EP voted on Jan. 18 , 1989 , by 222 votes to 172 that the Parliament should be allowed to transfer about half of its total staff of 2,100 to Brussels and to hold " exceptional " plenary meetings elsewhere than in Strasbourg , ie in Brussels . |
| 7 | First Chicago believes that selling half of its commercial property portfolio en bloc boosted the bank 's image with shareholders , regulators and rating agencies — though its share price is barely keeping pace with the S&P banks index , and its debt has yet to be upgraded . |
| 8 | But , there will also be many instances where the oven is only working to half or less than half of its full capacity for most of the day . |
| 9 | Whitbread generates half of its free trade sales in the South . |
| 10 | The Supreme Soviet in the Abkhaz ASSR voted on Aug. 25 ( with barely half of its 140 deputies in attendance ) to declare independence from Georgia and restoration of the full republican status Abkhazia had enjoyed between 1921 and 1930 . |
| 11 | The Board says that a new assessment of the polonium impact puts the risk at only one hundredth of its previous estimate . |
| 12 | They would involve the elimination of all 50 Peace-Keeper MX missiles deployed in silos ( provided that the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) scrapped all 754 of its land-based missiles with multiple warheads ) ; the reduction in the number of warheads on 500 Minuteman III missiles from three to one ; and cutbacks in the number of warheads on sea-based missiles by about one-third . |
| 13 | Imperial College itself is still flourishing — in the last Universities funding Council assessment of research , 12 of its 16 departments got the top ‘ 5 ’ rating , equal to Oxford and only slightly behind Cambridge — but , even there , there are small , disturbing signs that all is not well . |
| 14 | Congress ( I ) lost its majority in the 60-member Nagaland Assembly after 12 of its 36 legislators defected to form a new Congress ( Regional ) Party . |
| 15 | The corporation claimed that coal was produced at some stage yesterday at 12 of its 50 pits and that NUM members reported for work at one pit in the north-east and one colliery in the Yorkshire coalfield . |
| 16 | He was , however , happy in the ranks , where his sociable and unassuming character and ability to mix with all sorts made him free of its easy comradeship . |
| 17 | As he headed back across the sound she began to toil up the cliff path , pausing for breath now and then as the wind battered her and tore at her hair , which soon broke free of its restraining scarf and whipped into her eyes , slowing her progress up the wet , slippery path towards the house . |
| 18 | But in Urquhart , standing there facing him that night , she encountered a ratchet that had broken free of its retaining spring and was spinning in reverse . |
| 19 | On Nov. 23 the party announced that 12,500 of its 48,000,000 members had been expelled in 1989 , largely for corruption . |
| 20 | Okay , erm , if you break a number down into its prime factors , then you can look at the prime factors and see whether other numbers would go into it , so if we take sort of say , three sixty , and find some of its prime factors . |
| 21 | It is possible , and indeed likely , that many of them voted for the party despite some of its specific plans and intentions , and opinion polls sometimes indicate that a majority of those who support a party or government do so while opposing one or more of its particular policies . |
| 22 | This chapter describes the ACORN system in some detail , and examines some of its specific applications to market segmentation and consumer targeting . |
| 23 | The Government could breathe a sigh of relief at the disappearance of some of its fiercest critics . |
| 24 | Building on the earlier work , this study investigates some of its unanswered questions in the context of City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) ; institutions which , themselves , were created to be innovatory . |
| 25 | The Atomic Energy Authority is giving some of its protective equipment to the Ukraine to help with the continuing clean-up operation at Chernobyl . |
| 26 | The Bank 's other defence is that some of its recent studies on Africa — of which there are horribly many — suggest that the closing years of the 1980s did indeed see stronger growth and lower inflation in the countries it lent to . |
| 27 | ‘ Look , here are some of its recent scratches . |
| 28 | BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines . |
| 29 | BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines . |
| 30 | Coincident with , but unrelated to the Conservative tide in the wee hours of Friday morning , Tokyo 's beleaguered stock market bounced dramatically to erase some of its recent losses . |