Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , claims that the United States was abusing its financial position were a way of claiming that US competition was ‘ unfair ’ rather than just effective . |
| 2 | He said the United States was changing its historic policy in the region . |
| 3 | The CNAA was establishing its own organizational shapes . |
| 4 | Settlement of the issues of border troops and conventional forces would take place following discussions over the subsequent two months , although it was recognized in the protocols that Ukraine was creating its own armed forces as of Jan. 3 , 1992 . |
| 5 | The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN . |
| 6 | The importance of such links was stressed by Yeltsin during his visit to the USA ( on June 18-21 — see above ) and on June 23 it was announced that Russia was to have its own counsellor in the Soviet embassy in Washington and to have its own representative at the Soviet UN mission . |
| 7 | Shortly after the sack , Stamford was granted its great Charter of Incorporation by the newly acclaimed Yorkist king Edward IV , which gave it considerable rewards for its loyalty ( an earlier charter of 972 , which was a post-conquest forgery , and only referred to the mint at Stamford , was still celebrated in 1972 ) . |
| 8 | Mr Major used his new policy adviser , Sarah Hogg , to ensure that Downing Street was putting its own ideas in to the review . |
| 9 | Ceylon was denied its one chance in 1884 of seeing the ‘ Demon ’ Fred Spofforth , for instance , because he had left his flannels on-board ship . |
| 10 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 11 | Sólnes was appointed its first minister . |
| 12 | With the emerging pattern of village colleges , his LEA was providing its own programmes of liberal adult education and at the April 1939 meeting of the RAC he was successful in adding a clause to the constitution of the Committee to enable other ‘ approved associations ’ to provide courses of the Chapter III variety in addition to the WEA . |
| 13 | BRITAIN was facing its worst flooding crisis for 22 years as torrential rain and gale-force winds swept the country last night . |
| 14 | This , however , was not the basis of the negotiations on which Britain was granted its special deal . |
| 15 | The writer , who was troubled that the Lake District was losing its local population , put her case as follows : |
| 16 | Reports in mid-September that Saudi Arabia was to double its own army were linked with prospects of a large-scale US military sales package . |
| 17 | The head of the Defence Agency 's Bureau of Defence Policy , Shigeru Hatakeyama , announced on March 13 that Japan was increasing its financial support for US forces within the country by $269 million in the fiscal year 1991 . |
| 18 | If the EEC were to acquire its own resources , then the organisation would lose the element of control over its spending that came with the existing system of national contributions : Hallstein could then argue that giving the European Parliament more authority would provide the necessary democratic control over the Commission . |
| 19 | As the inquest got underway at the jockey club , the home of National Hunt racing , Cheltenham was reviewing its own starting gate which is similar to the one at Aintree . |
| 20 | He was the last of the Americans loyal to the city when New York was assuming its predominant role in the contemporary art world . |
| 21 | Archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre , where Hamlet was given its first performance . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Wellcome was undergoing its own strategic review and had decided to get out of making vaccines . |
| 23 | It was almost warm : Edinburgh was having its two weeks of summer . |
| 24 | While big city stations in Britain were adopting French Renaissance or Gothic styles , Germany was creating its own distinctive form , which combined the ground plan of the French station with the form of a Romanesque cathedral . |
| 25 | Slowly , the NME was alienating its natural constituents , the reasonably liberal and informed rock fan . |
| 26 | TeleOrdering 's sales and services director Ian Hall , supported by Whitaker 's marketing director Martin Whitaker , said that TeleOrdering was upgrading its basic service and increasing its range of EDI facilities . |
| 27 | Last week ICL was demonstrating its new relational database search accelerator in action . |