Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] its [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical research company Medirace , which is trying to develop a drug to treat cancer and Aids , is more than tripling its size through an £87million takeover . |
| 2 | In elections to the Landtag ( provincial parliament ) in Upper Austria on Oct. 6 the extreme right Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) more than tripled its share of the vote , winning 17.7 per cent ( 5 per cent in the last Upper Austria provincial elections in 1985 — see p. 34110 ) and 11 seats ( three hitherto ) . |
| 3 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 4 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 5 | In the general election the Labour Party made sweeping gains , more than doubling its share of the seats in the Dáil at the expense of Fianna Fáil , which won its lowest number of votes since the 1920s , and Fine Gael , which suffered its worst result since 1948 . |
| 6 | The West could do worse than to base its policy towards the Middle East on that aspiration . |
| 7 | In one case — I think it was in Warwickshire — a local authority , on reflection , revised its bid and decided to develop its relationship with housing associations rather than commit its allocation to its own project . |
| 8 | Eltec SA is keen to specialise in support services , forging alliances as and where necessary , rather than prolong its reputation as a transaction processing monitor firm . |
| 9 | There is also the temptation to make the questionnaire too long in the hope of getting just that little bit more information , this can more than defeat its object by reducing the response rate . |
| 10 | Major gains were made by the centre-left opposition party Democrats 66 ( D'66 ) , which more than doubled its vote from 6.7 per cent in 1987 and 7.9 per cent in 1989 to 15.6 per cent . |
| 11 | The right-wing Liberal Party ( FPÖ ) , campaigning on an anti-immigrant platform and led by the populist Jörg Haider , more than doubled its vote in Vienna in municipal elections on Nov. 10 , to become the second largest party in the city parliament . |
| 12 | It therefore digs along sand and soft soil rather than scraping its way through deposits of gravel and clay . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's called Titian , ’ she said , pushing her waves back with vigorous sweeps of her hands as if to deny its attraction to men . |
| 14 | Jonathon watched it , for a while , with admiration , as if appreciating its impudence in charging them so much . |
| 15 | A hegemonal class may be more or less ingenious at furthering its political interest while maintaining its position in the power bloc ; the working class may make better or worse use of a revolutionary situation . |
| 16 | The US State Department , while reaffirming its support for Mobutu remaining in power during the period of transition to democracy , also accused him of undermining the reform process and warned against further military attacks on peaceful protesters . |
| 17 | Russia , on the other hand , accepted the principle while denying its application to its own subject peoples . |
| 18 | WHILE trimming its expenditure by £200,000 mainly by reducing staff bills Sedgefield District Council refuses to cut a penny from its chairman 's hospitality allowance . |
| 19 | If not , consider how it might be adjusted to different categories of student while preserving its efficacy as a means of encouraging orientation within a discourse . |
| 20 | The Congress announced after 10 days of debate that " while emphasizing its adherence to Libyan penal and procedural laws the General People 's Committee [ equivalent to a Council of Ministers ] do not object to the investigation and trial being carried out through the committee of seven constituted by the Arab League [ see p. 38883 ] or through the United Nations before a just and fair court to be agreed on " . |
| 21 | THE Labour Party National Executive yesterday endorsed a campaigning strategy for the next year in which the party will seek to popularise its policy review while focusing its opposition to the Government on health , the economy , the poll tax , teacher shortages , and transport . |
| 22 | THE Labour Party National Executive yesterday endorsed a campaigning strategy for the next year in which the party will seek to popularise its policy review while focusing its opposition to the Government on health , the economy , the poll tax , teacher shortages , and transport . |
| 23 | It had entered into these relationships with the new category of institutions while retaining its role for the validation of degree-level courses from whatever direction they might come outside the universities . |
| 24 | DEC is hoping to expand its OEM outlets and diversify its sales channels , while increasing its focus on the customer . |
| 25 | Even while freeing its market at home , America found itself locked into the pernicious logic of government-to-government deals abroad . |
| 26 | GDA is not a large operation , employing 130 people on two floors , but while planning its opening in July last year it paid close attention to making the restaurant a focal point . |
| 27 | Midway through the debate , Ovadia Yosef , a former Sephardi chief rabbi and the spiritual mentor of the Sephardic Torah Guardians ( Shas ) , attempted to engineer a compromise whereby the government would respond positively to the US peace proposals , whilst maintaining its stand on certain aspects of East Jerusalem participation . |
| 28 | The strategy over the past few years has been to establish the University more actively in research , whilst retaining its commitment to excellence in teaching . |
| 29 | Syria will determine whether to accept any resettlement , or whether to continue its support of the refugee demand to return to Palestine , as a function of its own regional objectives . |
| 30 | If negotiated cuts in central Europe do in fact put Warsaw-pact troops on a defensive footing , Hungary 's army , now 100,000 strong , would all but lose its job as flank guard for a Russian thrust west . |