Example sentences of "[that] its [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank 's accounts have just revealed that its intangible assets have shrunk alarmingly . |
| 2 | Peek is fairly confident of its long term prospects reckoning that its rivals have been weakened by recession and that its worldwide markets show significant growth potential : it will be seeking to consolidate its international position with alliances and joint ventures . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is crucial to persuade Russia that its political stability depends on the stability of the region as a whole , especially its neighbours ? |
| 4 | It is curious that its political champions have barely touched on its merits in the election that may well herald its demise . |
| 5 | The word is , just as predicted by RW&P in January , that its political volatility has made it untenable as a venue . |
| 6 | A study of a small savings bank in Massachusetts found that its branch-based salesmen sold more than three times as many policies as agents hired by the bank to do the same job , and five times as many as agents working directly for an insurer . |
| 7 | Acrylic sheet has a notable combination of valuable properties — toughness , rigidity , lightness , water , chemical and weathering resistance , excellent surface finish , easy shapability and virtually infinite colour range — and it is from these that its major uses arise . |
| 8 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 9 | If asked , at this stage , each side would be likely to reply that its standard conditions governed the transaction . |
| 10 | If the household should now be paid £200 fortnightly , it can be seen that its average money holding increases to £100 . |
| 11 | It is evident , even from this brief review of the Act , that its overall effect has been to legitimise and encourage numerous police practices ( e.g. stop and search , roadblocks , forcible entry ) which have consistently alienated and antagonised large sections of society — notably , black communities and trade-unionists — and had the accumulated effect of generating public disorder . |
| 12 | One particular disadvantage was the fact that its immediate neighbours had been allowed to crumble into decay , leaving Frankie 's home sandwiched between two boarded , dilapidated buildings barely ft for storage . |
| 13 | Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship . |
| 14 | While China insists that its open-door policy remains intact and continues to encourage investment from the West , it has revived a vocabulary of ideological struggle almost identical to that used in East Germany . |
| 15 | An applicant for registration is asked , unless such confirmation has already been received , to produce confirmation from each of his or her home law societies , bars , chambers or courts that its professional rules do not prohibit practice in partnership with English solicitors in England and Wales . |
| 16 | Every applicant for initial registration is required to produce confirmation from the relevant law society , bar , chamber or court that its professional rules do not prohibit practice in partnership with English solicitors in England and Wales ( except where such confirmation from that body has already been received ) . |
| 17 | ( ii ) confirmation from each of the applicant 's home law societies , bars , chambers or courts ( as appropriate ) that its professional rules do not prohibit practice in partnership with English solicitors in England and Wales ; and |
| 18 | Unix Expo had an independent survey taken and found that its 1992 attendees represent a hefty $10,000m in purchasing power for Unix and open systems : networking is the strategic focus at the exhibition . |
| 19 | Unix Expo had an independent survey taken and found that its 1992 attendees represent a hefty $10 billion in purchasing power for Unix and open systems . |
| 20 | The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box . |
| 21 | Its international indebtedness had reached such alarming proportions under the previous Khedive that its Western creditors had become seriously alarmed . |
| 22 | For we can say that deconstruction involves the decentralization and decolonization of European thought — insofar as it is ‘ incapable of respecting the Being and meaning of the other ’ , and to the extent that its philosophical tradition makes ‘ common cause with oppression and with the totalitarianism of the same ’ . |
| 23 | Mount the drive so that its front panel sits behind the front panel of the computer . |
| 24 | The mining industry knows that its long-term security comes only from selling its product to customers at prices they can afford . |
| 25 | FROM THE STRAND , once more the beach that its historic name suggests , you may board a vaporetto to take in the Houses of Parliament , Westminster Abbey , Buckingham Palace and other principal sights . |
| 26 | Diode D1 is also mounted on a small heatsink so that its two pins go through to the appropriate foil points and the ‘ sink itself , which has solderable pins , is mounted vertically and fitted to the holes ‘ E-E ’ . |
| 27 | The porcupine fish ( opposite , top ) inflates itself by gulping in water ( or air if it has been removed from the sea ) until its body is so puffed up that its spiny scales stand out rigidly from its body and defy any killer to devour it . |
| 28 | Unisys will also make note of the fact that its anticipated PCI-based multiprocessing Unix Server Design Center , due in the fourth quarter , will house Pentiums and later P6s and that the high-end U6000/75 and U6000/85 that it buys OEM from Sequent Computer Systems Inc will be field-upgradable to Pentium in the fourth quarter . |
| 29 | Unisys will also make note of the fact that its anticipated PCI-based multiprocessing Unix Server Design Center , due in the fourth quarter , will house Pentiums and later P6s and that the high-end U6000/75 and U6000/85 that it OEMs from Sequent Computer Systems Inc will be field upgradeable to Pentium in the fourth quarter . |
| 30 | Faccenda argued that its former employees had made improper use of a ‘ package ’ of confidential information , ie names and addresses of customers , the best routes to take to reach them , details of their usual requirements , times of Faccenda 's usual deliveries and , above all , information about Faccenda 's prices . |