Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has had to cope with a double whammy of recession coupled with turbuence in the Lloyd 's insurance market which accounts for 50% of its business . |
| 2 | Basil realised that there was a whole lot more to education than training for livelihood with its over-emphasis on examinations . |
| 3 | The Manchester Metro Link uses existing rail track for part of its journey , switching to tramlines on city centre streets . |
| 4 | For part of its life , the site was run as two separate mills , known as the Abbey and Town Mills . |
| 5 | It makes its appearance on the bold ridge by the Rollright Stones , where it forms the boundary between Warwickshire and Oxfordshire for part of its course . |
| 6 | The Rhine rises in the Swiss Grisons , forces its way north-west , forming for part of its course the border between Switzerland , Liechtenstein and Austria , enters the Bodensee ( Lake Constance ) in the south-east , flows through part of the lake , then out into the Untersee , over the falls to Basle , then north up through Germany on its long journey to Holland and out into the North Sea . |
| 7 | They derive from both the operation of large units ( often highly mechanised and characterised by monoculture and high energy demands sometimes supplied from local sources ) ; and the small peasantry itself which has to work for part of its income on larger enterprises . |
| 8 | The railway line ran between various buildings and a high wooden fence that was used for part of its length for advertisement hoardings . |
| 9 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 10 | As the animal grew it secreted a wall ( septum ) between the body chamber and the chamber immediately behind — walled off part of its home as it were . |
| 11 | Attention focused on the bond market after the Government raised Pounds 1.3bn by selling off part of its debt in BT and the privatised utilities . |
| 12 | However , it is the first time that ICL has split off part of its business to the extent of actually forming a new subsidiary . |
| 13 | An example of this sort of difficulty in English law is Launchbury v. Morgans in which the House of Lords declined to extend the vicarious liability of the owner of a car for negligence of its driver because it lacked information about the impact this would have on the insurance industry . |
| 14 | Failure to do so is likely to result in erroneous data being written into the chip during removal from its socket . |
| 15 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 16 | Sun intends to set up a Sun Integration Service as part of its field organisation as a way to create demand and route business to the system integrators it 's partnering with . |
| 17 | Reading-based standards organisation X/Open Co Ltd has picked one of Digital Equipment Corp 's key transaction processing technologies as part of its standard for distributed transaction processing : X/Open has licensed the company 's Remote Task Invocation technology , a protocol for implementing remote procedure calls developed for the Multivendor Integration Architecture consortium ; it is the basis of the Transactional Remote Procedure Call X/Open just released and unites OSI/TP and Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 18 | X/Open Co Ltd has picked one of DEC 's key transaction processing technologies as part of its standard for distributed transaction processing . |
| 19 | The Fraud Squad had been seeking the help of several journalists for some weeks , as part of its work on the findings of that official report . |
| 20 | As part of its work the EPRG is anxious to construct , and then make widely available to interested parties , an inventory of all case-control studies that are in progress across Europe and that are designed to investigate possible associations between particular conditions and prior exposure to medicinal products . |
| 21 | The small region , with its coal and steel resources , had not been treated by France as part of its zone of occupation after 1945 . |
| 22 | The chief Soviet negotiator Oleg Grinevsky delivered an undertaking that the Soviet Union would adhere to the treaty 's prescribed weapons ceilings , destroying ( with proof ) 6,000 tanks , 1,500 armoured combat vehicles and 7,000 artillery pieces from its stocks east of the Urals , and including as part of its treaty totals three motorized divisions , comprising some 3,700 tanks , artillery and armoured personnel carriers , which it had previously classified as " naval infantry " not subject to the CFE treaty [ see p. 38027 ] . |
| 23 | The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted . |
| 24 | ‘ The department will also decide to send staff on courses as part of its responsibility for the development of professional and non-professional staff ’ … |
| 25 | At the start of the year Iceland agreed to take over 48 foodhalls from Littlewoods , including Belfast , as part of its expansion drive which will see 100 new shops this year . |
| 26 | As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later . |
| 27 | As part of its contribution to the Robert Adam bicentenary celebrations in 1992 , the National Library is publishing two books on the architect . |
| 28 | The government announced on Oct. 2 that it was to postpone until the end of 1991 the enactment of a controversial bill which would have allowed Japan to send up to 2,000 troops abroad as part of its contribution to UN peacekeeping forces in Cambodia and elsewhere . |
| 29 | As part of its contribution to " Helping the Earth Week " ( 17-23 October ) , the UK Department of the Environment has launched a campaign to encourage householders to improve energy efficiency in the home and thereby to make a contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the National Trust is organising the rebuilding of walls in the county as part of its contribution to Landscape Year . |