Example sentences of "[vb pp] its [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 2 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 3 | At this same time Force ‘ H ’ discharged its responsibilities for the ‘ Tiger ’ convoy to Admiral Cunningham 's force , the two fleets meeting some 40 miles south of Malta . |
| 4 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |
| 5 | The organization of bureaucracy educated its members into the proper fulfilment of their duties ( Perez-Diaz 1978 , p. 12 ) . |
| 6 | It was flawed because the council never formally considered its options under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 . |
| 7 | Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition . |
| 8 | By 1894 Glasgow Town Council , the same august body that had fought at Flodden and given its trousers to the Bonnie Prince , changed its name and became ‘ The Corporation of Glasgow ’ . |
| 9 | The commission would be given its objectives by the Government and would be accountable to it . |
| 10 | The press in Zambia had broken its links with the South only to forge new ones with the British press and its allied agencies . |
| 11 | The International Monetary Fund has just revised its estimates of the relative size of economies ( see page 95 ) . |
| 12 | The government confirmed on May 13 that it had landed a contingent of troops on the southern tip of Bougainville for the first time since 1990 , when it had withdrawn its forces from the island in the face of a protracted secessionist guerrilla war conducted by the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) . |
| 13 | From the beginning , the Association limited its activities to the 21 small towns in the region and , effectively , to the main settlements within this group ( Garbett-Edwards 1972 ) . |
| 14 | But now it has revealed its plans for the next generation of VAXes to be built around the new Alpha RISC chip , DEC is again keen to push the advantages of staying with VAX . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman is in contact with the CBI on Humberside , I am sure that he will have noticed its comments on the Budget . |
| 16 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 17 | The Group has expanded its operations in the UK and into three geographical regions — Continental Europe , North America , and Asia-Pacific . |
| 18 | He had seen its lines in the spectrum , and realized that they did not correspond to any known substance . |
| 19 | And then they can all be turn Then they 're happy they This is sort of lent if you like , they say donated but think of it as lent , it 's lent its electrons to the fluorines cos it wants to get rid of them and the fluorines wanted to take them so , it makes this nice bond . |
| 20 | There can be said to be at least three main schools of management theory addressing the people problem : the classical school embodying the work of F. W. Taylor and Henri Fayol , the behaviourist school founded by Elton Mayo and the quantitative school which appears to have had its origins in the operations research techniques developed during World War Il . |
| 21 | Ferranti has had its problems in the past so has rarely been an investors ' favourite . |
| 22 | Nevertheless the serial monogamy of kings is likely to have had its implications for the rivalries between their heirs . |
| 23 | The League of Nations appeared to have washed its hands of the city , and the general attitude was that it was a matter for Poles and Germans to decide between themselves . |
| 24 | Today — the Saturday of the Whitsun weekend — the shop had opened its doors to the public for the first time ; and they had got off to an encouraging start . |
| 25 | THE North Staffordshire Railway at Cheddleton , near Leek on the Churnet Valley Railway , has recently opened its doors for the 1992 season of running dates . |
| 26 | A new club which aims to give homeless and unemployed people what could be their only good meal of the day has opened its doors for the first time . |
| 27 | It has drawn its evidence , too , from a more recent feminist literature which has rooted its perspectives in the lives of white women living with men . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I am astonished that the Government , which hailed Jaguar as the flagship of the privatisation programme , has now wiped its hands of the future of the company , its workforce and the West Midlands car industry . ’ |
| 29 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 30 | In the second transaction , LASMO has sold its interests in the producing Balmoral and Maureen fields to Pentex Oil Limited for a total of US$30 million ( £20.7 million |