Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHELL , which is due to report its 1992 results later this week , will be forced to write off £131 million through adverse foreign currency dealings involving a Japanese associate company in which it holds a 50 per cent stake . |
| 2 | The Railways Bill is due to reach its final stage in the commons next week . |
| 3 | The company is due to unveil its high-end SparcStation 10 models tomorrow , and will bring them out at substantially reduced price points to stimulate growth of a high-powered multitasking and multiprocessing desktop marketplace . |
| 4 | Mr Stephen 's bill is due to get its second reading tomorrow . |
| 5 | In Western Europe , the Joint European Torus ( JET ) is the focus of attention , and is due to begin its first experiments later this year . |
| 6 | It 's due to receive its second reading in the committee stage of the House of Lords today . |
| 7 | Is is possible to find its original military number plate as it 's been reregistered with a civilian number ? |
| 8 | The influence of these broad parameters makes itself felt in the opening pages of the Report , to the extent that the Committee is prepared to revise its very terms of reference in the light of its wider concerns . |
| 9 | The DHA merely decides the level at which it is prepared to fund its surgical unit . |
| 10 | In any event , say the Pakistanis , none of the Arab countries except for Egypt is prepared to take its awkward citizens back . |
| 11 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 12 | Architecture students from the Université des Beaux-Arts in Phnom Penh are apprenticed to the Japanese and wmf teams , and the Thai government is prepared to expand its small workshop if funds can be found to do so . |
| 13 | Apart from natural justice principles , the exchange is free to establish its own disciplinary and arbitration procedures . |
| 14 | Following Big Telly 's sell out tour with John Godber 's comedy ‘ Teachers ’ last year , Flowerfield Arts Centre is delighted to have its resident theatre company open its Annual Arts Festival with another riotous comedy . |
| 15 | This observation has occasionally even found its way into the specialist literature , but it is easy to miss its full significance . |
| 16 | The greatest holiday in the Soviet calendar , November 7 , is the day on which the country is supposed to celebrate its revolutionary leap into a higher form of society — socialism . |
| 17 | This week SunSoft Inc is supposed to unveil its latest iteration of Interactive Systems Unix , release 4.0 . |
| 18 | Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on . |
| 19 | One which is likely to rear its ugly head continually during this piece . |
| 20 | The difficulty is that every handful of weed that 's pulled out is likely to contain its fair share of aquatic creatures too . |
| 21 | Each new kind of medium is likely to have its own built in obsolescence whether deficiencies these are inherent or merely the result of replacement by newer and more efficient technologies . |
| 22 | Each database will cover a specific topic and is likely to have its own set of potential uses . |
| 23 | SCO , which licenses its Unix code from USL , has been reluctant to name the successor to its version of Unix , SVRV/386 3.2.4 , because it says it is unwilling to commit its claimed six million users to a product — SVR4 — which is at present available in four different versions . |
| 24 | The disk surface is also normally of high quality and is unlikely to shed its magnetic layer , at least not for several years . |
| 25 | is apt to follow its own course . |
| 26 | The title is considered by LIFESPAN to be public domain ( ie. all LIFESPAN users may see it ) so it is important to keep its secure content down to the minimum . |
| 27 | But since contradiction is the only source of social change in Althusser 's account of the ‘ complex structured whole ’ , it is important to bear its eclectic character in mind . |
| 28 | ( c ) The motor is unable to reach its maximum speed if the number of steps to be executed is less than the total steps required for acceleration and deceleration , i.e. the initial value of COUNT is less than ACCVAL + DECVAL . |
| 29 | The County Council , having been presented with the Channel Tunnel as a fait accompli , is concerned to maximise its potential benefits by directing associated commercial development to those areas which will benefit most . |
| 30 | If it does , it has a very good chance of catching the gazelle for it is able to reach its maximum speed within a few yards , and then it is the fastest animal on four legs . |