Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States , following a major review of its strategic stance in the region in the second half of 1989 , maintained its refusal to sign the protocols to the 1985 Treaty of Rarotonga , which made the Pacific a nuclear-free zone [ see p. 33855 ] , despite the improvement in its relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | At a congress in Linz on June 14-15 the SPÖ changed its name to become the Social Democratic Party of Austria ( Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs — SPÖ ) rather than the Socialist Party of Austria . |
| 3 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 4 | In any case it soon demonstrated its reluctance to accept the discipline of the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising , by organizing a major strike on the twentieth anniversary of the arson attack on the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on 21 August . |
| 5 | In the light of these beliefs , he concluded ( 1970 p 117 ) that Bentham 's Panopticon far from being progressive could justly be characterised as regressive " since he used its design to vaunt the merits of security over those of liberty . |
| 6 | BSDI made its motion on the basis of legal procedure claiming USL would first have to charge it with trade secret and copyright infringement , a charge USL subsequently made when it expanded its suit to include the University of California at Berkeley ( UX No 396 ) . |
| 7 | Suspicions were easily aroused , for it was also at this time that Britain announced its desire to reduce the number of its troops stationed in West Germany under the WEU agreement , as part of its switch to a nuclear-based defence . |
| 8 | Such was the dismay of the Monis government that it hastily announced its intention to annul the laws of 1908 and 1911 , weakly declaring that it was ‘ abandoning the territorial delimitations which may provoke divisions among Frenchmen ’ . |
| 9 | On Sept. 26 the government announced its intention to abandon the Fort , which the LTTE claimed already to have captured . |
| 10 | As well as introducing new high-end AS/400 models , IBM last week also reiterated its plan to enhance the application portability and interoperability of the AS/400 with Posix and OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 11 | In a further move designed to reassert its sovereign status [ see p. 38852 ] , the conference also reiterated its decision to restore the country 's name before 1971 , the Republic of Congo , and to adopt its former flag , motto and national anthem [ see p. 39039 ] . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp reiterated its pledge to support the MIPS chip with NT at a meeting of the ACE remnants the week before last : there 's no talk of making NT XPG3-compliant . |
| 13 | The Bank of Japan signalled its determination to protect the economy from inflationary trends and to strengthen the value of the yen by raising the key official discount rate — the rate charged by the Bank of Japan on overnight loans to commercial banks — three times during the year , including from 3.57 to 4.25 in December 1989 . |
| 14 | The Council still remains the organ with the broadest spread of democratic membership : it is the West European body which perhaps will benefit first from the revolutionary changes or-1989 in Eastern Europe precisely because of its more ‘ bland ’ nature : in 1990 Poland signified its desire to join the Council . |
| 15 | of the third part , the landlord granted its licence to assign the lease to C.T . |
| 16 | and Mr. Salah Mahmoud , the first defendant , the landlord granted its licence to assign the lease to Mr. Mahmoud and Mr. Mahmoud covenanted with the landlord to pay the rent and observe the covenants during the residue of the term . |
| 17 | The European Council reaffirmed its willingness to help the Soviet Union but referred back to the Commission the task of submitting before the next Council meeting proposals for decisions to be taken , and also asked it to draw up a plan for a major commercial , scientific and technical co-operation agreement with the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | A LEADING North Sea oil company yesterday declared its licence to explore the depths of Liverpool Bay was among the most sought-after off the UK coast . |
| 19 | The courts , however , insisted on the legality of their original verdict and Congress declared its intention to challenge the constitutional validity of Collor 's decree . |
| 20 | While reiterating that the demand for international inspections of North Korea 's nuclear facilities could not be linked to other issues , the government stated its willingness to discuss the nuclear issue " for the purposes of reducing tension and building confidence " . |
| 21 | The M.T.A. by its constitution had a power to put on a stop list the name of a member or person who infringed its rule forbidding the sale of articles at other than the list prices relevant thereto unless such person should pay to the Association a fine within limits to be laid down by the Council of the Association . |
| 22 | The ANC defended its intention to stage the demonstration , as part of its mass action campaign [ see p. 39037 ] , on the grounds that Gqozo 's regime had prevented free political activity in Ciskei and had effectively prohibited the ANC organizing within the homeland 's population of 850,000 . |
| 23 | The government also began negotiations seeking membership of the IMF ( to which it acceded in October ) and the World Bank and indicated its desire to join the European Communities . |
| 24 | Then a visit to the area by a UN mission had to be postponed , as Iran expressed its unwillingness to discuss the political issues related to the war . |
| 25 | Hungary expressed its desire to leave the alliance , while Czechoslovakia favoured retaining the Pact until the creation of a pan-European security system . |
| 26 | Over a hundred thousand tons of water pressed on the landfall and each foot eaten away from its face sapped its ability to withstand the massive weight . |
| 27 | And the following day Britain lost its battle to impose the burden of scientific proof on those who oppose radioactive dumping . |
| 28 | The FA turned down the request and repeated its demand to see the Leeds City books . |
| 29 | Then suddenly he turned towards her , eyes blazing , lifted it , and she felt its point pierce the skin of her forehead , and the sudden spurt of blood gushing into her eyes . |
| 30 | In early 1986 the government took its concern to influence the financing of local government a stage further . |