Example sentences of "[prep] its [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Greenfield committee , so named after its eminent chairman Dr James Greenfield prescribed 14 doses of medicine for an ailing National Health Service ( NHS ) . |
| 2 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 3 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 4 | The most important rebellion was that of 1773–74 , named after its Cossack leader Emilyan Pugachev . |
| 5 | Many Conservatives still recalled the disarray into which the Macmillan administration had plunged after its striking election victory in 1959 . |
| 6 | L6 is almost certain to be delayed until well after its official launch date in May . |
| 7 | Most Liberal MPs , except Lloyd George and his family clan , joined the National government and supported it after its general election success in October 1931 from which they improved their position . |
| 8 | Bits and pieces are still filtering out from IBM Corp 's conference call with analysts after its third quarter figures last week , and its director of investor relations Jim Clippard finally acknowledged that IBM could cut its workforce even more than the 25,000 announced in December , late in second quarter or in the third quarter : ‘ It 's clear to me that they have to go well beyond the 25,000 , ’ said PaineWebber analyst Stephen Smith , ‘ Maybe even 50,000 ; ’ analysts told Reuter that IBM said the majority of its targeted 25,000 plus staffers will leave the company during the second quarter , leaving it open to another plan in the second half of 1993 . |
| 9 | That was the rallying cry of Cleveland Arts after its tenth anniversary exhibition in the St Mary 's Centre , Middlesbrough , yesterday . |
| 10 | This may be one reason why fertility recovered somewhat after its initial wartime decline , to reach a peak in 1944 ( 781,478 births ) , unmatched since 1923 , only to fall again in late 1944 and 1945 as mass armies were once again able to operate overseas ( see Registrar-General 1954 ) . |
| 11 | When national expenditure is computed , it is measured initially in market prices — for example , the total spending on beer is equal to the quantity of beer bought times its average market price . |
| 12 | With the news that NCR Corp has joined the ranks of those opting for its Unix implementation for the iAPX-86 processor family , Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft subsidiary finally took the wrapping off its long-awaited Unix SVR4-based operating system environment last week . |
| 13 | Each day during its 91 day life , it should increase in value a little . |
| 14 | The final moments in the life of 79th Fighter Squadron — with the last ribbon added to the squadron 's battle streamer — symbolising all the battles it 's fought in during its 75 years service . |
| 15 | UP UNTIL Mind Bomb it was easy to see why Matt Johnson had never toured The The during its 10-year life span : the group was never more than a shifting collection of session players and ‘ guests ’ , songs so devoted to doom and gloom limited audiences to Exit members , the lunacy of the extended format Infected video implied visions far beyond the confines of the stage , and an inflated sense of his own worth would have made the risk of failure too great . |
| 16 | The island of Jersey will be a feast of flowers from July 15 to 20 during its annual flower festival . |
| 17 | Although it has tended during its fairly-long aquarium history to virtually disappear from time to time , it is currently fairly commonly available , so this seems a good time to take a detailed look at this fish and its requirements . |
| 18 | The terminal voltage of a battery usually remains reasonably constant during its normal discharge period but then falls dramatically at the end of its working life . |
| 19 | For Goodman , Haynes would have been just the kind of dynamic figure beloved of the Labour Government during its expansive tea-with-the-Beatles phase . |
| 20 | During its short life Gandalf 's Garden evolved a style which made It , Oz , and the others that were to come later models of detachment and worldliness . |
| 21 | During its active aviation days , Brooklands witnessed no less than 13,500 individual aircraft first flights of 143 different types , more than anywhere else in Britain . |
| 22 | Over 2,000 people passed through the museum during its three month opening period in 1992 , so we are encouraged and look forward to seeing a larger number of people pass through during the six month opening period in 1993 . |
| 23 | Thanks to tax incentives , a firm 's value will rise as its debt-equity ratio rises ; but after some point ( its optimal debt ratio ) the costs of financial vulnerability outweigh the tax savings , and the value falls . |
| 24 | In December the City Committee of the Belgrade Party ( which is the largest city organization of communists in Yugoslavia , with nearly a quarter of a million of members , many of whom are highly influential federal and Serbian bureaucrats ) elected as its new president Professor Radoš Smiljković , professor of political science at Belgrade University . |
| 25 | Parker Commercial Filters , US has appointed Hedley Filtration as its first UK distributor for process filtration products . |
| 26 | The Byelorussian Communist Party on Dec. 12 elected as its first secretary Anatoly Malofeyev , who succeeded Yefrem Sokolov . |
| 27 | Elsewhere in the county Quakerism emerged in the 1650s to be fairly firmly suppressed by a gentry worried about its revolutionary tendencies ; Thomas Haycock of Horsham went to gaol in 1656 as its first Sussex victim . |
| 28 | Hong Kong adopted Deng Xiaoping , China 's leader , as its political pin-up boy . |
| 29 | The compounds , known as gamma linolenic acid ( GLA ) derivatives , are produced by a British-Canadian company , Scotia Pharmaceuticals , which six years ago took over the former fish drying factory at Callanish on the west coast of Lewis as its principal production unit . |
| 30 | To my mind the only possibility of solving this problem lies in a large European prospective randomised screening study comparing screening with no screening and using mortality from prostatic cancer as its major end point . |