Example sentences of "[vb pp] its [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |
| 2 | Wimpey Environmental has built its reputation on the quality of its measurement work , and it is this element that distinguishes us from our rivals . |
| 3 | This would eliminate the insiders ' opportunity to profit from insider news , which would have already made its impact on the market . |
| 4 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 5 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 6 | For Camus , Oran , the city of La Peste , ‘ capital of boredom besieged by innocence and beauty ’ , was the mirror image of Algiers : ‘ a city of dust and stone ’ that had ‘ turned its back on the sea ’ . |
| 7 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 8 | The second point , briefly , is that the white paper has turned its face on the establishment of an environmental protection agency , and independent environment protection agency , and erm , you may feel strongly , I know there was another report that came out just about that time that erm was advocating it , and you may feel that what is needed is a central , independent environmental protection agency . |
| 9 | ‘ The freak would do well to keep in mind that we have preserved its existence on the grounds of its intelligence alone . ’ |
| 10 | In Asia , such ‘ cultigens ’ include the coconut , which may have had its origin on the Great Barrier Reef , and the mango , the talipot palm , Corypha umbraculifera , its leaves used as writing paper , and the betel nut with narcotic fruits . |
| 11 | It may be said that , over many years , I have seldom known cases of marital difficulty in which sexual difficulty did not lie in the background ; but , equally , I have seldom known marriages where a major relationship difficulty has not had its effect on the satisfactions of sex . |
| 12 | It is known that the Museum of Modern Art , which has no accommodation at the moment , has had its eye on the Krymskaya Naberezhnaya location for a long time . |
| 13 | We 've done a profile of the courses and guess what they all happen in the school holidays , so this is n't , this is n't over yet in fact for all the user groups , for you , the clubs and the organizations , it really does need a push from you , you must by and large are the deci decision makers , the club officers and I would ask you urgently whether or whether or not your clubs already got its name on the list , to actually support the people within your club that are laying these things on . |
| 14 | The administration had nevertheless shifted its stance on the issue of the extension of benefits , recognizing that opinion polls were showing an adverse public response to Bush 's economic stewardship . |
| 15 | In 1799 parliament had pronounced its opinion on the illegality of trade unionism and this was part of an atmosphere in which courts were expected to find against it . |
| 16 | Company law has instead focused its attention on the problems created by the second characteristic of corporate enterprise which undercut the ability of the market to regulate the exercise of economic power : the separation of ownership and management . |
| 17 | But modern marketing had laid its hand on the old tap-room . |
| 18 | We have a system of local government finance which has concentrated its attention on the poll tax payer , bringing in gearing which has resulted in enormous increases in bills , without any material increase in spending or improvements in services . |
| 19 | The cabinet had previously rested its authority on the support of the House ; now it derived its authority from the electors . |
| 20 | All round the feeling has been that by developing political representation , cooperation has increased its hold on the general public and is daily attracting new adherents to its principles . |
| 21 | Anyway , with the topsy-turvy results this season has thrown up , it 's anybody 's guess what we 'll end up with after Man U v Forest has run its course on The Match on Sunday ( ITV , 3.25pm ) . |
| 22 | Thus Cuba , which for nearly half a century had run its economy on the basis of near-total reliance on the United States , was faced with the need to find a new market for 700,000 tonnes of sugar and an alternative source of oil supplies . |
| 23 | This suspicion of parties has left its mark on the names of the right-wing parties in France : his successors ' party is called ‘ Rassemblement pour la République ’ , the word ‘ rassemblement ’ ( rally ) connecting a wide popular extra-parliamentary movement . |
| 24 | Junod , it will be recalled , proposed that the maternal uncle 's indulgent behaviour was to be explained by an earlier matrilineal ( or ‘ matri-archal ’ ) phase which had left its mark on the now formally patriarchal BaThonga . |
| 25 | So Hackney has left its mark on the history of madness . |
| 26 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 27 | ( The CPCz had reversed its position on the invasion in December 1989 — see p. 37106 . ) |
| 28 | During the 1970s , with two power stations in relatively peaceful operation , the Board consolidated its position on the Somerset coast . |
| 29 | This too has taken its toll on the traditional freedoms of university life . |
| 30 | Later , as the aircraft swooped down over many of the fields that were so familiar to me in my detecting rambles around the countryside , I soon realised that the weather had taken its toll on the cropmarks . |