Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] its [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | the company does not commence its business within a year from its incorporation or suspends its business for a whole year ; |
| 2 | All you can really do is construct something that will divert it or block its way for a while ; persuade it to do something it does n't really want to do . |
| 3 | THE SCOTTISH Milk Marketing Board has bowed to pressure and withdrawn its bid for the Co-op 's Scottish milk business . |
| 4 | Reformers who advocated social welfare regulation were motivated by ideals , but also by the desire to improve the productivity of the working class and to attract its support for particular political causes . |
| 5 | Of winner and loser , the loser group is likely to learn more from the experience , and to evaluate its performance for future activity . |
| 6 | After its first emergency meeting on Aug. 3 the GCC Ministerial Council met again in Jeddah on Aug. 7 and reiterated its call for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal . |
| 7 | The PLO leadership ( including the PLO executive committee ) met in Tunis on July 20-21 and reiterated its demand for a total freeze on settlement building , calling for imminent elections to a " legislative council " which would have " complete authority " in the occupied territories during the transitional period . |
| 8 | When another objector pointed out that the Pan-Am jumbo jet which exploded in mid-air over Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988 , killing 270 people and scattering its debris for miles , had just minutes earlier passed over the Chapelcross nuclear power station , the reality came frighteningly close . |
| 9 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 10 | The vendor will seek to reduce the risk by making disclosures and limiting its liability for breach of warranty . |
| 11 | When the Sacred Union met on Oct. 22 it refused Mobutu 's proposal that it should name an alternative Prime Minister , and reaffirmed its support for Tshisekedi . |
| 12 | Exploratory 's trustees want to raise £2 million from industry ( their main target is computer firms ) to set up the centre and guarantee its future for at least three years . |
| 13 | Their mission is to pursue the TARDIS through time and space and to exterminate its crew for daring to interfere in Dalek plans . |
| 14 | But the long-term effects upon the brain are to dull its critical faculties and to impair its capacity for memory and accuracy in all its functions . |
| 15 | The British studied the Plan and appreciated its importance for better Franco-German relations . |
| 16 | I live close to the Union Canal and use its towpath for cycling , so my comments will relate to this and to the neighbouring Forth-Clyde Canal . |
| 17 | It is fairly simple to differentiate the elliptic integrals ( see p. 49 of Jahnke-Emde-Losch , for the formulae ) so if you have the patience derive the magnetic field from the vector potential of Example 3.9 and determine its value for the data given there . |
| 18 | These six poems are a brief moment of religious experience in an age that believes religion to be a kind of defeatism and puts its hope for man in finding the right secular order . |
| 19 | At the same time Wolff personally bought into the ailing Union Steamship Co. , with its services to South Africa , becoming a director and winning its custom for the yard . |
| 20 | The new features in Version 5.5 include a ‘ what you see is what you get ’ preview facility and extends its support for fonts to dot matrix printers . |
| 21 | Some have been worried about the unscientific standing of this later work , but the worries are based on a mistaken view of the way in which science develops , and ignore its need for bold speculations . |
| 22 | Dilthey set out to construct a philosophy of history which would disclose the real nature of historical knowledge and establish its significance for modern culture . |
| 23 | Recent evidence ( Johnstone et al. 1980 ) suggests that the superiority of ECT over placebo treatment might be short-lived , but supports its use for immediate relief of symptoms . |
| 24 | The US State Department , while reaffirming its support for Mobutu remaining in power during the period of transition to democracy , also accused him of undermining the reform process and warned against further military attacks on peaceful protesters . |
| 25 | It had entered into these relationships with the new category of institutions while retaining its role for the validation of degree-level courses from whatever direction they might come outside the universities . |
| 26 | I think that a case might arise in which the reputation of a local authority might be damaged , so as to impair its function for the public good , in which no private individual was defamed ; and in which the public interest would be served by the taking of proceedings for libel by the local authority in order to determine the falsity of the charge . |
| 27 | ( 5 ) In order to determine whether any particular item of information falls within the implied term so as to prevent its use for disclosure by an employee after his employment has ceased , it is necessary to consider all the circumstances of the case . |