Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mazowiecki government had tendered its resignation after the first round of the presidential elections , but parliament had initially refused to accept it . |
| 2 | You see , the Comer has changed its course since the third century . |
| 3 | Thresher insiders believe the company changed its decision at the last minute after TODAY 's revelations yesterday . |
| 4 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 5 | Medieval Serbia reached its zenith in the fourteenth century during the reign of Dušan ( 1331–55 ) , who was crowned Tsar ( Emperor ) of ‘ the Serbs and Greeks ’ in Skopje in 1346 . |
| 6 | He succeeded in glamorising his own wines extraordinarily well , but the reputation of Sillery did not attain its zenith until the eighteenth century when , under the Maréchale d'Éstrées , the only child of Louis-Philogène , the sixth Marquis , the estate had accumulated a vast holding of vineyards . |
| 7 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 8 | Other measures were announced which it was hoped would enable the Russian government to balance its budget in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 9 | UN nuclear weapons expert Maurizio Zeffirero declared on Dec. 8 , following an inspection visit to Iraq , that the government had expressed its willingness for the first time to open discussions regarding foreign suppliers of its nuclear weapons programme . |
| 10 | It did not , as has been claimed , need a Louis XI to act as its midwife in the fifteenth century . |
| 11 | It is no part of the function of this chapter to dilate at length upon the rules ( so far as they exist ) or the functions of heraldry since its rise in the second quarter of the twelfth century , but a few general remarks will not be out of place . |
| 12 | Confidence has risen most in Britain , where signs of economic recovery helped net optimism to 42% , more than twice its level in the first quarter . |
| 13 | Shares in the manufacturer of bridal wear and nursery products , which only made its debut on the Third Market a year ago via a placing at 100p , stand at 136p . |
| 14 | The definitive chassis , designed by Englishman Tony Southgate , is expected to make its debut in the last two WSC races this year . |
| 15 | They are bearing the one-eyed god from some unseen station of its progress to the next . |
| 16 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 17 | Our last question concerned ‘ inaccessible by the young ’ ; And Eliot replied that , according to the OED , ‘ by ’ was a permissible use with ‘ inaccessible ’ as well as ‘ to ’ , and in his opinion its presence in the last line sounded better . |
| 18 | We consider first the extent of accumulation for bequests and then its division among the next generations ( these decisions may of course be interdependent ) . |
| 19 | Bonhams has announced that its turnover from the first quarter of 1992 is 34 per cent up compared with the same quarter of 1991 . |
| 20 | Mr Major replied : ‘ It is for this House to decide by its vote on the third reading whether to approve the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill and enable the Government to ratify the treaty . |
| 21 | Defence is now allowed to carry forward a percentage of its vote into the next financial year . |
| 22 | Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular . |
| 23 | In its heyday in the 17th Century as many as 30,000 pairs were sold in a year , the hand-knitted work being mostly collected by wool hosiers from outlying villages . |
| 24 | The terrace parterre is to be restored to match its appearance during its heyday before the First World War , and an extensive programme of tree planting is under way to replace the losses of recent years . |
| 25 | The CDA 's share of the vote , at 32.7 per cent , although marginally up on its result for the last municipal elections in 1986 [ see p. 34309 ] , compared aversely with 35.3 per cent in the September 1989 general election [ see p. 36900 ] . |
| 26 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
| 27 | The detailed discussion of the review procedure at this meeting and the lengthy minutes devoted to it are in marked contrast to the brevity of its mention in the next meeting , under ‘ matters arising ’ . |
| 28 | The family historian who visits such a place would find it hard to believe that it was once the home of a mere waggoner if he had not seen old photographs that show its condition before the First World War . |
| 29 | All three are [ in different degrees ] illusions , which make the weight of life bearable — to those of sufficient stature to feel its weight in the first place . |
| 30 | And in case anyone thought that that was the end of the bad news , the company says it expects that its revenue for the first quarter to September 27 will be below analysts ' expectations and that it will incur a loss for the quarter . |