Example sentences of "[det] [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 2 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 3 | We therefore have cleaner technology as a main aim , and we see growing recognition by industry of the value of this for its economic well-being and international competitiveness . |
| 4 | It is sometimes referred to as the mahi or " fish-in-the-pond " design ( mahi being the Persian word for fish ) , because many traditional sources have cited this as its symbolic origin . |
| 5 | In this way it would accept the notion that social psychology produces historically relative knowledge ( Gergen , 1973 ) and take this as its main point of theoretical departure . |
| 6 | More than 70 per cent of Australia 's rain forests and half of its other forests have been destroyed . |
| 7 | In a deal signed at Pakistan 's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources last month , LASMO Oil Pakistan [ LOPL ] assigned half of its working interest in its block 36 licence to Shell , marking the oil giant 's return to the country after nearly 10 years . |
| 8 | The microchip company has told more than half of its 216 staff that they must move to Germany next year — or face redundancy . |
| 9 | By the late 1970s , about half of its industrial output came from its fifty largest companies , many of which were multinationals . |
| 10 | Members of the EP voted on Jan. 18 , 1989 , by 222 votes to 172 that the Parliament should be allowed to transfer about half of its total staff of 2,100 to Brussels and to hold " exceptional " plenary meetings elsewhere than in Strasbourg , ie in Brussels . |
| 11 | First Chicago believes that selling half of its commercial property portfolio en bloc boosted the bank 's image with shareholders , regulators and rating agencies — though its share price is barely keeping pace with the S&P banks index , and its debt has yet to be upgraded . |
| 12 | But , there will also be many instances where the oven is only working to half or less than half of its full capacity for most of the day . |
| 13 | Whitbread generates half of its free trade sales in the South . |
| 14 | The Supreme Soviet in the Abkhaz ASSR voted on Aug. 25 ( with barely half of its 140 deputies in attendance ) to declare independence from Georgia and restoration of the full republican status Abkhazia had enjoyed between 1921 and 1930 . |
| 15 | Okay , erm , if you break a number down into its prime factors , then you can look at the prime factors and see whether other numbers would go into it , so if we take sort of say , three sixty , and find some of its prime factors . |
| 16 | It is possible , and indeed likely , that many of them voted for the party despite some of its specific plans and intentions , and opinion polls sometimes indicate that a majority of those who support a party or government do so while opposing one or more of its particular policies . |
| 17 | This chapter describes the ACORN system in some detail , and examines some of its specific applications to market segmentation and consumer targeting . |
| 18 | The Government could breathe a sigh of relief at the disappearance of some of its fiercest critics . |
| 19 | Building on the earlier work , this study investigates some of its unanswered questions in the context of City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) ; institutions which , themselves , were created to be innovatory . |
| 20 | The Atomic Energy Authority is giving some of its protective equipment to the Ukraine to help with the continuing clean-up operation at Chernobyl . |
| 21 | The Bank 's other defence is that some of its recent studies on Africa — of which there are horribly many — suggest that the closing years of the 1980s did indeed see stronger growth and lower inflation in the countries it lent to . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , here are some of its recent scratches . |
| 23 | BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines . |
| 24 | BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines . |
| 25 | Coincident with , but unrelated to the Conservative tide in the wee hours of Friday morning , Tokyo 's beleaguered stock market bounced dramatically to erase some of its recent losses . |
| 26 | In November 1991 , during a second Russian Revolution , the Department of Slavonic Studies reunited some of its former students from the more recent past , to celebrate the anniversary . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 28 | A new world order was forged from the disintegration of the Soviet empire , though there is a bitter harvest from that in ex-Yugoslavia and terrible threats still hang over Russia and some of its former satellite states . |
| 29 | Fairlie emphasizes that the House has no corporate feeling , it can not stand apart from the government , and the parliamentary reformers ' idea that the House can recover some of its former powers is both impracticable and , in his judgement , undesirable . |
| 30 | Consideration is now being given to using the colonies as a breeding stock to reintroduce the monk into some of its former territories , including the Senegal River , the Canary Islands and the Black Sea . |