Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are all unclean ; and in the boys ' initiation rites we find that the mudyi tree also has its part to play in the symbolism of circumcision . |
| 2 | This complex web includes : a ) local and regional offices of central government departments , such as the DSS and DOE ( see Young 1982 ) ; b ) non-departmental public bodies usually dealing with a single specialized function , such as health and water authorities ; c ) decentralized units of public corporations , such as electricity boards ; d ) innumerable autonomous and semi-autonomous official and quasi-official organizations , each with its part to play in the policy-making process , such as tenants ' liaison committees and youth service advisory councils ( see Cousins , 1982 , 1983 ) ; e ) elected local government ( see Figure 8.2 ) . |
| 3 | The capitulation of the General Council on the 12 May , and its decision to call off the strike without any guarantees that those involved would not be victimized , might also be seen as evidence of failure . |
| 4 | The United States on March 24 announced its decision to withdraw from the International Sugar Organization ( ISO ) , which brought together all major producers and consumers of sugar . |
| 5 | SECRET talks were held yesterday between United States and North Korean representatives as Washington urged Pyongyang to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 6 | Following its decision to move into the Unix arena ( UX No 317 ) , Computer Associates International , is angling to get its first batch of Unix-based applications out the door by the end of the year . |
| 7 | Following its decision to move into the Unix arena , Islandia , New York-based , Computer Associates Inc , has signed an agreement with Novell Inc to port CA-Unicenter , its systems management software , and its vast collection of mainframe applications to the NetWare network computing environment . |
| 8 | The SLORC regime had been eager to attract foreign investment ; this was thought to have been the major factor in its decision to proceed with the election . |
| 9 | The procedure is that : LCH gives notice of its decision to consolidate to the relevant exchange , the selling member and the buying member ; the seller is charged with the conduct of LCH 's case against the buyer ; and the buyer is charged with LCH 's case against the seller ; copies of all pleadings being supplied to LCH and LCH retaining the right to submit its own arguments to the arbitrators . |
| 10 | The extent to which the PCF was committed to popular front cultural politics can be appreciated both by the amount of time and energy that it devoted to the anti-fascist congresses , peace movements and revolutionary cultural associations of the period , and by its willingness to engage in the policy of la main tendue ( " the outstretched hand " ) in its relations with sympathisers of any persuasion , ideological or religious , willing to collaborate in its struggle against capitalist warmongering , imperialism , fascism and oppression . |
| 11 | In its reply the profession , while acknowledging its willingness to co-operate in the provision of relevant additional information , expressed concern that concentration on expenses and charges , while ignoring more important aspects of product and company selection such as the investment return , might not be in the best interests of consumers . |
| 12 | The government stated its willingness to abide by the UN sanctions policy , but sought to postpone their application for as long as possible . |
| 13 | The trip was conducted in a cordial atmosphere , and Roh expressed satisfaction that the Chinese government had signalled its willingness to assist with the process of Korean reunification by assuming the role of " honest broker " . |
| 14 | Vietnam , while expressing its willingness to help in the matter , insisted that it was an essentially humanitarian issue and should not be coupled with the larger political relationship . |
| 15 | Delegates agreed to resume negotiations on March 21 , or earlier , provided that the Soviet Union signalled its willingness to comply with the terms of the accord . |
| 16 | It is seen that the programme was only of small benefit to the people of Bangladesh , owing to its inability to cope with the conditions of this developing country . |
| 17 | As Professor Elton has argued , Parliament 's importance in England rested on its utility to the monarch , on its readiness to co-operate in the business of ruling . |
| 18 | Washington soon showed its readiness to work with the new British government . |
| 19 | However , the UK failed in its attempt to head off the EC Commission , even though it made a last-minute offer to bring forward compliance of five water supplies contaminated with nitrate , from 1995 to 1991–4 , ‘ a shift , ’ according to ENDS , ‘ which , until then , the UK had insisted would be impractical . ’ |
| 20 | In March 1947 , the Government announced its intention to round off the social service provision that had been made by the National Insurance and National Health Service Acts of 1946 , by introducing legislation to break up the poor law , and to introduce a comprehensive system of national assistance . |
| 21 | Hungary 's preliminary announcement at the June meeting of its intention to withdraw from the Pact by the end of 1991 opened the way for Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland to announce in January 1991 their withdrawal with effect from July 1 , and Romania and Bulgaria also announced plans to leave the organization [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 22 | The largest party in the League of Free Democrats electoral alliance , the LDP had the day before renamed itself and declared its intention to merge with the West German free democrat FDP , if possible by the end of 1990 . |
| 23 | The government had earlier made known its intention to repeal in the course of 1991 the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts which reserved more than 80 per cent of South Africa 's land for whites . |
| 24 | Yesterday TWA signalled its intention to step into the gap . |
| 25 | On the same day that it announced its intention to apply for the judicial review , Greenpeace members attempted to block the company 's discharge pipes , provoking an injunction banning them from trespassing further on the company 's property . |
| 26 | It has announced its intention to co-sponsor with the USA a UN resolution imposing an indefinite moratorium on the use of drift nets from the end of 1992 . |
| 27 | But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded . |
| 28 | In the long term , the future of British pacifism lay in its capacity to adapt to the demise of the world order from which , often unconsciously , its most fundamental assumptions were derived . |
| 29 | The bullet traversed the skull and was deflected in its passage to emerge on the left side , shattering bones in the area of articulation of the lower jaw . |
| 30 | It eventually capitulated days before the Panel was due to exercise its right to apply to the courts for a forced restatement of the accounts . |