Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with the possibility that IBM Corp is to reduce the royalties for using its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking code , and despite its membership of the APPI Forum backing the proposed open Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking standard , Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon International Inc believes that APPN is set to become the industry standard . |
| 2 | Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members . |
| 3 | That chance arose in 1988 when Colorgraphic acquired P&W as a vehicle for building its direct mail printing business north of the border . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly that takes much time , and the GKN Group is to be congratulated for encouraging its senior executives to play such an important part in an organisation that achieves such excellent work in Shropshire . |
| 5 | And yet there is now a way in which a small business can introduce ‘ new technology ’ methods for producing its internal documentation , manuals , price lists , brochures , indeed anything that previously would have been sent to a designer or printshop . |
| 6 | The water industry in Britain is divided up into a number of autonomous water companies and councils ( Chapter 3 gives details ) and each is responsible for producing its own water bye-laws . |
| 7 | Furthermore , I often took detours to avoid sand which the Land Rover had gone through using its four wheel drive . |
| 8 | When the commission unveiled its tough plans for shaking up the beer industry in March , many industry watchers predicted that Whitbread , forced into a choice between keeping its six breweries or freeing two-thirds of its 6,250 pubs from the obligation to sell its beers , would decide to keep full control of its pubs and pull out of production . |
| 9 | No , I am not astonished because , two years after announcing its local government plans , the Labour party still does not know how they would work . |
| 10 | NEARLY five months after regaining its national unity , Germany seems as divided as ever . |
| 11 | The re-opening of the NRM , after getting its new roof , restores one of Britain 's best museums to public duty after a long lay-off . |
| 12 | Jazz FM joined Kiss and LBC at sales house Independent Radio Sales this week after quitting its long-term sales partner , The Radio Sales Company , on Friday . |
| 13 | A FORTNIGHT after starting its pioneering survey of the sky , the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) is turning in high-quality data in such profusion that astronomers are having difficulty keeping up . |
| 14 | The St Louis was not meant to leave Havana empty after dropping its 937 emigrants . |
| 15 | After reaching its early peak the Sussex iron industry went into a very long decline , which only finished when the Ashburnham forge closed in 1810 , at the height of the Napoleonic wars . |
| 16 | AAF Industries was a major casualty , plummeting 49p to 79p after issuing its second profits warning in two months . |
| 17 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme , the Daily Telegraph reports . |
| 18 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 19 | Mitsubishi 's challenger to the BMW 535i , the Sigma , goes on sale in the UK next March after receiving its first airing at the Paris motor show . |
| 20 | They have also developed the use of ‘ self inspection ’ — each group responsible for inspecting its own work — and giving responsibility to work groups for minor routine maintenance such as changing tips of welding guns and making minor adjustments . |
| 21 | High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire-based Insignia Solutions Ltd was recognised for developing its widely-used SoftPC program that emulates the MS-DOS environment used on the IBM personal computer on incompatible Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes , and workstations from the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp ; and S&S International Ltd , Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , gained an award for its Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit , which employs fuzzy logic to combat the most complex computer viruses . |
| 22 | insurance company ( est. 1782 ) , the first to adopt the practice of maintaining its own fire brigade . |
| 23 | In many cases the more successful a town the less likely is the chance of seeing its early development . |
| 24 | In August 1824 Hickman produced a pamphlet entitled A Letter on Suspended Animation , containing experiments showing that it may be safely employed during operations on animals , with a view of ascertaining its probable utility in surgical operations on the Human Subject , addressed to T. A. Knight Esq . |
| 25 | When the development was first announced in 1990 , senior Motorola managers spoke of the company 's policy of encouraging its global suppliers to establish local operations alongside its manufacturing plants , and said they hoped that some suppliers might be persuaded to set up in Scotland . |
| 26 | Fortunately , all the Trace management staff are staying on , and Kaman have a history of encouraging its subsidiary companies to retain their own product identities , so we at Guitarist sincerely hope that one of Britain 's brighter amp companies will be allowed the freedom to continue with the experimental stuff . |
| 27 | Rather , many contemporaries were impressed by the growing capacity of some at least of the working class to practice self- and mutual-help and they sought ways of encouraging its further development . |
| 28 | C Itoh Electronics , the trading house subsidiary which is one of the players in the Japanese X-terminal market has shed some light on last month 's story that Sun was considering building its own X-terminal ( UX No 399 ) . |
| 29 | Besides these formal structures , each party has extensive methods of contacting its own leaders including deputations to the Prime Minister , casual conversation , the impression conveyed by the ‘ sense of the House ’ and messages relayed by Parliamentary Private Secretaries and by the whips . |
| 30 | Each linguistic community has preferred ways of organizing its various types of discourse . |