Example sentences of "to its [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SITRATERCO had originally demanded a 60 per wage increase but , according to its general secretary Nicolas Rivera , it accepted a government-mediated offer of 25 per cent following the Army 's intervention " to protect the lives of our members " . |
| 2 | The Social Affairs Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council decided in 1983 that a national time budget study would be relevant to its general policy aims . |
| 3 | The latest controversy centred on an amendment to its Islamic Law Administration Act passed by the Selangor State Assembly on July 19 , 1989 , which permitted formal conversion to Islam of minors without parental consent , on the grounds that Islamic law deemed a person an adult from the onset of puberty . |
| 4 | To hold the pound within its margins the system requires a member country to intervene in the markets when its currency diverges 75 per cent of the way to its permitted fluctuation margins , either side of the central rate . |
| 5 | Only Hungary — a superbly well managed economy by CMEA standards — has taken the plunge and restored direction to its flagging reform efforts ( a direct consequence of which has been a 79 per cent increase in the consumer price index between 1979–1983 ) . |
| 6 | DEC , which held the Dutch introduction to its new Alpha machines here , and Hewlett-Packard , had both spent a lot of money on assembling and staffing the stands , and were less than happy with the trickle of visitors descending from the various sessions down onto the show floor . |
| 7 | The last flight will be made from RAF Waddington to its new resting place at Bruntingthorpe next Tuesday , where the aircraft will be grounded but maintained in operational condition . |
| 8 | Spitfire FR XIV RM921/SG–57 immaculate in its No 2 Wing de Chasse colours , ‘ on the move ’ to its new display building at Florrenes in July . |
| 9 | * Scottish Power is to fit FGD equipment to its new Longannet power station outside Edinburgh . |
| 10 | The first indications that Channel 4 may be broadening its original programming remit in the run-up to its new sales arrangements emerged this week with the proposal to revamp the breakfast time service , Channel 4 Daily . |
| 11 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
| 12 | Cortex Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have signed a joint marketing and development pact that will see Cortex' CorVision application development tool , previously available only on VAXes , moved to its first Unix environment HP-UX on an HP 9000 Series 800 server : CorVision will be encapsulated so it runs with HP SoftBench Framework ; availability is expected this year . |
| 13 | Mount Fuji , Japan , was the scene of the final act as Japan played host to its first World Championship Grand Prix . |
| 14 | Blenheim Palace has the kind of gardens to intimidate most keen amateurs but it welcomed hundreds of enthusiasts to its first autumn flower show , opened by palace owner the Duke of Marlborough . |
| 15 | In Figure 6.8 the project end date is 17 units , obtained by adding the job time of J to its early start time . |
| 16 | In Figure 6.8 the project end date is 17 units , obtained by adding the job time of J to its early start time . |
| 17 | Some 18 months after the announcement that it had formally established a manufacturing joint venture in the autonomous republic of Tatarstan , ICL Plc is finally about to start shipping components to its joint venture ICL-KMECS in Kazan . |
| 18 | As Montgomery ( 1981 ) points out , the Makaton Vocabulary is not suitable for the general population of deaf children due to its limited vocabulary size . |
| 19 | N501SH , pictured outside the Spartan Aeronautics hangar at Tulsa , Oklahoma , prior to its successful test flight . |
| 20 | The company is adding to its electrical engineering business with the purchase of Haefely Holding , of Switzerland , a maker of components for high-voltage electricity transmission , and MWB Vermoegensverwaltungs , of Germany , the world 's leading manufacturer of explosion-proof , gas-insulated instrument transformers . |
| 21 | Thanks to its powerful steam generator , ironing has never been easier and even vertical ironing is made possible , perfect for use on hanging curtains and jackets . |
| 22 | Is the Minister aware that if the Wakefield district council social services department had to stick to its standard spending assessment it would have to save a further £3 million this year on services for the chronically sick and disabled ? |
| 23 | According to its standard spending assessment , Manchester needs 69 per cent . |
| 24 | Public spending came to take a larger share of the nation 's resources even though each service was keeping to its real volume target . |
| 25 | This is not to denigrate what Hanson does , but the limits to its managerial scope need to be recognised . |
| 26 | Borland International Inc reports ‘ strong initial reception ’ to its long-delayed Windows version of Paradox , and says it expects to report profits of 10 cents a share for its fourth quarter to March 31 , double the average analyst forecast ; Microsoft Corp said it had sold about 700,000 copies of its new Access database program , and Borland says that its Paradox for Windows has done about as well . |
| 27 | On 21st June this year Johnson Matthey announced an Enhanced Scrip Dividend Alternative to its final cash dividend for the year ending 31st March 1993 . |
| 28 | RTZ , the world 's biggest mining group , was unchanged at 677p despite offering a 50pc higher share alternative to its final dividend payment . |
| 29 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 30 | Others suggested that such functionality would be integrated at the motherboard level , and that Sun was working on the technology independently to its current emulation partner , the UK 's Insignia Software of High Wycombe . |