Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is correct that our trilobite lived above the sea bottom , actively swimming in the water , there are certain predictions we can make about its geological occurrence which can be tested by looking in the rocks . |
| 2 | An interesting alternative is a superconducting electron accelerator , which can often compensate for its limited peak current by combination of exceptional beam quality , high stability and very long duty cycle . |
| 3 | A federal district court in Washington D.C. ruled on May 14 that the large accounting practice of Price Waterhouse should compensate for its earlier discrimination against Ann Hopkins , a former employee , by awarding her a partnership in the firm . |
| 4 | a sentence is not autonomous , it does not exist for its own sake but as part of a situation and part of a text . |
| 5 | But , to borrow ideas from Professor Charles Handy , partnership should still strive for its own immortality . |
| 6 | It did n't really matter much — it was an opportunity to seize on , to keep and cultivate for its potential usefulness : what a useful child … thank you , darling … |
| 7 | Note that it is not possible to apply for a family assistance order ; the court must act of its own volition . |
| 8 | The tribunal may also direct of its own motion that there be a pre-hearing assessment . |
| 9 | From the gamut of titles , I select Stefan Buczacki 's Garden for All Seasons ( Conran Octopus , January , £8.99 , 1 85029 444 5 ) , Terry Underhill 's Heaths and Heathers ( David & Charles , February , £14.99 , 071530131 4 ) , Deni Bown 's Ornamental Herbs for Your Garden ( HarperCollins , April , £8.99 , 0 00 412831 1 ) , which you might know under its previous title Fine Herbs , and Caroline Boisset 's Plant Growth Planner ( Mitchell Beazley , March , £8.99 , 1 85732 093 X ) . |
| 10 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 11 | The acceptance of such a scheme meant that the government had accepted , albeit for economic and demographic reasons , the principle that ‘ society should include in its economic structure some form of direct financial provision for the maintenance of children , instead of proceeding on the assumption that , save in cases of exceptional misfortune , this is a matter which concerns only individual parents and should be left to them because normally men 's wages or salaries are , or ought to be and can be made to be , sufficient for the support of their families ’ ( Rathbone , 1940 ) . |
| 12 | The government predicted that the deficit would shrink from 17,000 million pesos in 1990 to 1,400 million in 1991 , and that inflation would fall from its current rate of 12.2 per cent to 9.5 per cent by the end of the year . |
| 13 | The statement of the principle of subsidiarity in the Maastricht text is in what would be a new Article 3B of the EEC Treaty , to the effect that ‘ in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence ’ the Community should take action only if and so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can , therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 14 | In areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence , the Community shall take action , in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity , only if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action can not be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore , by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action , be better achieved by the Community . |
| 15 | It was clear that the policy could not survive in its existing form , and in 1970 agreement was being reached on a new approach . |
| 16 | In some instances the retrospectively converted data will only survive in its new format . |
| 17 | Today , the odds are that it will not survive in its present form for more than another generation . |
| 18 | The EAT is the indirect successor to the National Industrial Relations Court which was so unloved by trades unions that it could not survive in its original form the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 . |
| 19 | Both feature Hewlett 's JetDirect interface for connection to local networks , which Hewlett-Packard will also market in its own right . |
| 20 | Although there were some routine matters , such as the issue of legal writs , where it could act on its own initiative , for any matter of permanent importance it needed a warrant for its action from the Privy Seal or the Signet : usually only the former would be sufficient . |
| 21 | Yet Evans-Pritchard records that he never met a Zande who admitted to practising witchcraft , although when pressed Zande might acknowledge that witchcraft substance could act on its own account , perhaps even against the conscious intentions of the person concerned . |
| 22 | To prove that the tab mark is still there place the cursor to the left of the first word of the paragraph and press the Backspace key — the paragraph will jump to its original position with the indent in the expected place . |
| 23 | It would fall to its previous level when he later made the transfer to his building society . |
| 24 | Milken refused to play the game of domino justice , so the case against him will stand or fall on its own merits . |
| 25 | Heinemann has a one volume FCE course entitled Target First Certificate , and this has neither prequels nor sequels and will stand or fall on its own merits . |
| 26 | Like the aristocracy , therefore , the Church could count on its urban mob , and in the riots of 1766 the Orders were accused of releasing this urban clientèle against a reforming administration ; Aranda , the most conspicuous of Charles III 's anti-clerical ministers , called to power to deal with the rioters , seems to have planned a serious attack on poverty precisely because he feared the influence of a Church with a monopoly of outdoor relief . |
| 27 | Wang will meantime focus on its big service business and developing selling software an will sell computers made by others , including IBM . |
| 28 | Each will focus on its own area of specialisation . |
| 29 | McRae and Cairncross ( 1984,2 ) argue that the growth of the City originated in the large volume of government borrowing in the eighteenth century to pay for Britain 's foreign wars ; the Industrial Revolution took place almost independently of the City , which thereby showed that it perhaps could survive on its financial wits as a major service centre . |
| 30 | An island of Czech reaction can not survive among its metamorphosed neighbours for more than a geopolitical instant . |