Example sentences of "its [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the second incident of its kind at the hospital this year . |
| 2 | The plate from which he had eaten his hamburgers and frozen green beans , which had been last night 's supper , still unrinsed in the sink ; the splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove ; the viscous mess of grime gumming the narrow gap between stove and cupboard ; the soiled and smelly teacloth hanging from its hook at the side of the sink ; last year 's calendar askew on its nail ; the two open shelves jammed with a conglomeration of half-used cereal packets , jars of stale jam , cracked mugs , packets of detergent ; the cheap , unstable table with its two chairs , their backs grubby from numerous clutching hands ; the linoleum curving at the wall where it had become unstuck ; the general air of discomfort , uncaring , negligence , dirt . |
| 3 | The PAC also expressed its discontent at the name of CODESA — it had proposed " conference for a constituent assembly " — and the venue — it had urged that it be held at a " neutral " venue , outside South Africa . |
| 4 | Even though X/Open no longer has any formal relationship with the Foundation , following the Cambridge , Massachusetts-based group 's withdrawal from its board at the end of last year , the open systems standards body has nailed down an agreement with OSF which will see all DCE specifications integrated into its Common Applications Environment , CAE , interfaces over the next 12 to 18 months . |
| 5 | Last week 's National Audit Report on the ‘ Quality of Road and Bridge Construction ’ pulls few punches in its look at the work of the Department of Transport , the Welsh Office and the Scottish Development Office . |
| 6 | And finally , while Oxford United 's men take on Sunderland at the Manor tomorrow the club 's newly formed Ladies team makes its debut at the Witney Town Ground on Sunday afternoon … formerly known as the Oxford and County Ladies , United kick off their campaign against the Hassocks from Sussex . |
| 7 | The Institute 's new exhibition stand , which made its debut at the Funeral Services Exhibition at Mottram Hall . |
| 8 | In 1990 , under the artistic direction of the internationally renowned choreographer Royston Maldoom , Ulster Youth Dance made its debut at the Belfast Festival at Queen 's . |
| 9 | An interim car will make its debut at the start of next season . |
| 10 | A prototype Il-103 is under construction at Ilyushin 's Moscow factory and is expected to fly in mid-1993 , in time for the aircraft to make its debut at the Business & Light Aviation Exhibition at North Weald next September . |
| 11 | • Ropeable Lotus dealers in the US were after Lotus boss Michael Kimberley 's blood after the Lotus-badged Bertone Emotion made its debut at the Detroit show earlier this year . |
| 12 | It was announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that in line with an overall reduction in " overseas commitments " , the Soviet Union had begun reducing its presence at the air and naval base of Cam Ranh Bay , with the withdrawal of MiG-23 and Tu-16 aircraft at the end of 1989 . |
| 13 | Dave Punshon , chairman of the Consumer Protection Committee , says its presence at the show demonstrates the boat 's state-of-the-art technology . |
| 14 | Political propaganda on the part of the American Relief Administration , by far the longest foreign source of aid , warped its judgement at the time , and the subsequent polarization of Russian-American relations has not improved the objectivity of later scholarly accounts of the Famine as seen through American eyes . |
| 15 | In its role as the chief purveyor of propaganda and agitation , the press had shifted its accent at the start of NEP . |
| 16 | The Ulster human rights group , the Committee on the Administration of Justice , has expressed its disappointment at the decision . |
| 17 | The Oxford University Student 's Union has expressed its disappointment at the Government 's action on the Student Loans Bill in the Commons last night . |
| 18 | If the signals only vary slowly , and respectively represent the small-signal conductance and resistance at the operating point and are given by the slope of the static characteristic and its inverse at the operating point . |
| 19 | An Antiguan investigating team , led by one of its delegation at the UN , Patrick Lewis , questioned Israeli Foreign Ministry officials in Jerusalem on May 8 , and was reportedly shown documentation which testified to the legality of the arms sale . |
| 20 | Sometimes the horse stretches out its neck at the horse it is trying to warn off and tosses its head up and down at it in a threatening manner . |
| 21 | The SADR first took its seat at the Organization of African Unity summit of 1984 , not 1989 as inadvertently given on pp. 37014 , 37220 . |
| 22 | The " Countryside Stewardship " scheme will be run by the Countryside Commission , which hopes to have 80,000 hectares under its management at the end of the term . |
| 23 | One of these carries the legend Cunoarus Fecit/ Vico Durobrivis , recording its manufacture at the vicus at Durobrivae , which is one of the rare instances in Roman Britain where epigraphy attests a site 's status . |
| 24 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 25 | Lloyd Webber argues that he had made the demonstration tape of Phantom , and indeed that the show had been performed in its entirety at the Sydmonton Festival before a large audience , long before Brett 's songs were submitted . |
| 26 | The gravitational force of liberal values exerts its influence at the core of contract doctrine , namely the justifications for the enforcement of contracts . |
| 27 | Arguments of this kind normally started from the assumption that the powers of Europe were still in a ‘ state of nature ’ with respect to each other and that each of them was engaged , consciously or not , in a ceaseless struggle to increase its influence at the expense of its neighbours . |
| 28 | Dundas , Ontario-based Beame & Whiteside Software unveiled its BW-Server at the InterOp show earlier this month . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , as well as searching for a director to replace its current chief , Bob Scheifler , the X Consortium is also examining ways of distancing itself from its home at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developing some kind of marketing focus without falling foul of its not-for-profit status . |
| 30 | Mikhail Gorbachev got his hands on a Montego when he visited its home at the Cowley assembly plant in Oxford 7 years ago , just before taking office at Soviet leader . |