Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vatican 's decision to allow the exhibition organisers free choice of any volume in the Library is a result of a debt of gratitude towards the Library of Congress , which , in the 1920s and 1930s , helped it modernise its systems . |
| 2 | Straight away though , despite the technical wizardry of the medium , he found it had its limitations . |
| 3 | It is high time that the Minister went to see Anglo-United and told it to get its act together and stop polluting the environment . |
| 4 | Once he had called it , appealed to aggiornamento , banned anathemas , included observers of other Churches within its deliberations , and allowed it to have its head against the warnings of the guardians of the old order such as Ottaviani and Ruffini , the consequences were inevitable : the foundations of many hundred years were going to be rocked upon every side . |
| 5 | In his mind 's eye he saw it boring its way into the earth , down , down , until it reached his brother 's face . |
| 6 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
| 7 | The independence of the inspectorate enabled it to make its comments , which is why new clause 2 is so relevant . |
| 8 | Not only did it meet the airline 's losses without the latter suffering any real penalty , but it enabled it to pursue its plans to take a 6 billion franc ( 37.5 per cent ) shareholding in the Belgian state-owned carrier Sabena , which was in an equally parlous financial state . |
| 9 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 10 | The figures , in what the company described as the worst economic conditions for almost half a century , enabled it to boost its dividend for shareholders . |
| 11 | Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . |
| 12 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 13 | But did it surprised its writer ? |
| 14 | The moon had risen but no sooner did it spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud . |
| 15 | Where did it get its food ? |
| 16 | So why did it recruit its presenters from Tory Wankers Against Taste ? |
| 17 | They gave it vows its teeth clashed its starvation |
| 18 | After the Reformation these traditions were regularized in a unique Poor Law which made each parish responsible for its own poor , and obliged it to finance its aid by levying a poor rate on its inhabitants . |
| 19 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 20 | The group said it increased its share of deposits outside France and had been active in capital markets , where it gained notoriety last year for backing Giancarlo Paretti , the failed MGM film studio owner . |
| 21 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |