Example sentences of "from its [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whining motor could n't cope with the long grass by the fence , and it melted the extension cable when Pa forgot to unwind it fully from its blue plastic drum . |
| 2 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 3 | Enterprise Engineering made a small operating profit , but did not meet expectations due to a reduced level of work from its major oil industry customers . |
| 4 | Enterprise Engineering made a small operating profit in 1992 , but did not meet expectations due to a reduced level of work from its major oil industry customers . |
| 5 | Morris 's left hand stretched out from its one-and-a-half inch cuff and stubbed out its half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 6 | For example , the Commonwealth Government of Australia has , in recent years , devoted much attention to the quality of service from its internal audit staff . |
| 7 | Under agreements with France , the United Kingdom , the USA and the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , Japan had acquired rights to reprocess spent uranium fuel from its atomic power stations at nuclear processing facilities in Europe , and between 1970 and 1980 had received 13 shipments , eight by air , five by sea , of plutonium reprocessed at a UK facility from uranium fuel of UK origin . |
| 8 | The south-western end of the hole is dangerous , a sinister shaft piercing the ground to a depth of 345 feet and open to receive bodies falling from the steep slopes around ; from its dark base passages radiate like tentacles , one of them providing , after much crawling and diving through Satanic pools , a through route to an opening in the valley below . |
| 9 | Results from its international drinks business IDV provide rather more cheer , with profits up 12% to £509m , while its retailing division had a mixed performance . |
| 10 | Operation of the network is being passed from PTT Telecom to its Unisource Business Networks joint venture , which will run it from its International Network Management Centre in The Hague . |
| 11 | Low-cost endowment business through independent financial advisers , building society connections and estate agents was up by 25% in the quarter as GA Life benefited from its strong performance record in with-profits business . |
| 12 | Since 1955 Philair , operating like a small airline from its Southern Holland Eindhoven base , and with a variety of aircraft , has flown 83657 hours , as at June 77 , made 76,267 flights , carried 266,090 passengers and 77,400 kgs freight . |
| 13 | PV-Wave will also include more complex statistical and mathematical analysis modules , stemming from its joint development project with the UK , Oxford-based Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd . |
| 14 | Apart from its rich cricket history , featuring such giants as Hobbs , Fender , Bedser , Laker and May , the country has the same heraldic colour , chocolate brown , as that of my beloved ‘ Bordah ’ . |
| 15 | Telephone bids ( presumably from Italian buyers ) rocketed Keeley Halswelle 's ‘ The Quack Doctor of the Piazza Rotonda , Rome ’ from its revised estimate £8–12,000 ( originally £5–7,000 ) to £27,000 ( $40,500 ) to a surprised room at Sotheby 's . |
| 16 | The transform of the model from its final reference space coordinates into those of the viewing plain , are essentially similar to the previous spatial transforms . |
| 17 | The fireplan would be under the control of the company once it moved from its final assault position on to the enemy position . |
| 18 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
| 19 | Since WWF 's change to its present name from World Wildlife Fund it has , to quote a staffer in a rival pressure group , ‘ been trying to get away from its cuddly animal image ’ . |
| 20 | The slower the growth , the more time AT&T will have to strengthen the challenge to OS/2 from its rival Unix operating system . |
| 21 | To help customers make the transition from its Motorola-based DPX systems , Bull says it will make sure the same software environments ( databases etc ) are available on both lines , and says applications will be source-level compatible . |
| 22 | The Ardeer site in Scotland managed to cut £6,000 from its annual water bill when an employee pointed out an unnecessarily wasteful use of water . |
| 23 | North Tees General Hospital received a cheque for £1,850 from the constabulary , raised from its annual charity concert in December last year . |
| 24 | The budget , totalling Rs292,910 million ( US$6,900 million ) , included a record government deficit of Rs 89,000 million , which would be funded by borrowing Rs65,000 million , raising Rs17,500 million in taxes and trimming Rs6,500 million from its annual development plan . |
| 25 | America 's largest commercial bank , Citicorp , plans to lop $1.5 billion a year from its annual operating costs , twice the amount it announced in December . |
| 26 | Effective immediately , the Copyright Clearance Center in the US will make payments from its Annual Authorisation Service ( AAS ) and Transactional Reporting Service ( TRS ) semiannually instead of annually , says BP Report . |
| 27 | In a shock move , the US General Services Administration has dropped IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp software and hardware from its annual purchasing lists , the Washington Post reports , making it more difficult for government agencies to acquire the products . |
| 28 | TNT , which operates twice nightly British Aerospace 146-QT jet freighter flights — and some times a third aircraft — to and from its European air hub at Cologne , Germany , in fact currently claims to be experiencing a ‘ substantial increase ’ in traffic at Liverpool . |
| 29 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc has come out with the first major product from its European Software Centre in Neuchatel , Switzerland : AutoCAD Release 11 for the IBM RS/6000 line of workstations . |
| 30 | Those 64-bit Rios 2 multi-chips IBM Corp is planning on using in boxes due by the end of the year from its new Power Parallel Systems unit ( UX No 422 ) reportedly incorporate more instruction- set parallelism than Rios 1 does , will do eight operations per instruction cycle , will have a larger cache and additional buses . |