Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A professional company , in favourable circumstances , can own or lease its immediate means of production , and deal relatively directly with its public , while its technical means are relatively simple . |
| 2 | During this stage , the government may accept amendments or amend its own bill if deficiencies in drafting come to light . |
| 3 | He had seen to it that his spare flesh should not go soft with time , or lose its springy vigour ; but the years had revenged themselves as best they could . |
| 4 | If you are small and unknown , a firm of consultants acting on your behalf or using its existing knowledge base may be more realistic . |
| 5 | Similarly , under Rule 37.4 , if the offeror buys-in or redeems its own shares , this has to be disclosed as a dealing under Rule 8 and in the offer document in the case of a securities exchange offer . |
| 6 | Or loses its unique load bearing power . |
| 7 | He can help you improve the overall condition of the property , says Malcolm Hollis , but obviously he ca n't change or improve its actual location . |
| 8 | Rule 37.1 provides that where a company redeems or purchases its own voting shares , with the result that the directors and any persons acting in concert with them hold 30 per cent or more of the voting rights , then a Rule 9 obligation to make a mandatory offer arises . |
| 9 | The Steam Tank has no armour saving roll — instead its thick iron skin is represented by a very high toughness of 10 , and enemies will need a very high strength to stand any chance of crushing or piecing its armoured shell . |
| 10 | So one horse may show apprehension by putting its ears half back at another more dominant horse , or drop its lower eyelids , or extend its top lip , or dilate and round-out its nostrils . |
| 11 | Celts , Goths , Visigoths , Huns , Avars , Magyars , Cumans , Pechenegs , Tatars , Mongols , Turks have all had to take or occupy its key fortresses ; hence the importance of Belgrade , of Budapest , even of Vienna , for that gap between the Northern Carpathians and the Eastern Alps which lies between Vienna and Bratislava has to be traversed to gain access to the German plain . |
| 12 | Notwithstanding a proposed Whitewash , the Panel will not usually waive the Rule 9 obligation if the directors and their concert parties have acquired shares in the knowledge that the company intended to redeem or purchase its own shares . |
| 13 | So one horse may show apprehension by putting its ears half back at another more dominant horse , or drop its lower eyelids , or extend its top lip , or dilate and round-out its nostrils . |
| 14 | It is not prepared to answer its predicament or disclose its recent whereabouts . |
| 15 | The DSS is considering the grouping of the Lockwood parish with Guisborough or providing its own station . |
| 16 | The game of tables skittles , or to use its traditional name ‘ Devil Among the Tailors ’ , is a pub game which originated in London in 1783 . |
| 17 | The National Trust ( or to use its full name , the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty ) was founded in 1895 . |
| 18 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 19 | If we are to argue design 's social significance or to model its social relations this must be based on our understanding , our explicit , sharable and imperfect understanding as to what " design " is and what design does . |
| 20 | The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships . |
| 21 | Where it was strong , it kept men and women on the land , in so far as the land could give them a living , or sent its excess population along the well-beaten traditional tracks of seasonal migration , like those which took the smallholders of central France to and from the building sites of Paris . |
| 22 | The aim is to discredit the Frelimo government as being unable to protect or serve its own people . |
| 23 | The local authority can discharge this responsibility either by running or managing its own homes , known colloquially as ‘ Part 3 homes ’ or by sponsoring residents in homes provided by the private and voluntary sector . |
| 24 | The framework I want to propose rests upon a regard for the importance of the active , interpreting self in social interaction ; for the way it perceives , makes sense of and works upon the actions of others and the situation in which it finds itself ; the way it pursues goals and tries to maximize its own ( often competing ) interests ; the way it pursues these things by combining or competing with other selves ; the way it adjusts to circumstances while still trying to fulfil or retrieve its own purposes — and so forth . |
| 25 | Additionally , the horse 's temperament is likely to deteriorate dramatically , and the horse may become not only more difficult to manage , but may also develop some vice , such as viciousness , wind-sucking , cribbing , weaving , or biting its own body and tearing its own skin . |
| 26 | economic agents simultaneously employ an economic model of the economy and use all available information , the expected marginal benefits of which equal or exceed its marginal cost , to make predictions about economic outcomes . |
| 27 | Removing stale , moist air from inside the house may be brought about deliberately — by opening a window or switching on an extractor fan — or may occur fortuitously — air passing up chimney flues , for example , or finding its own way out through one or two small gaps in the house structure . |
| 28 | Without that leverage , the RPF could either take a vow of self-imposed isolation ( in the hope that this would be rewarded by electoral victory in 1956 ) or risk its anti-system character by participating in parliamentary politics and even holding a share of power in coalition governments . |
| 29 | Is it when i t has been built , or completed its testing or hauls its first train ? |
| 30 | And God help the little sparrow that dares to close its eyes or shuffle its tiny feet during a performance . |