Example sentences of "and [verb] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This evidence of strength used by a small country for peaceful purposes and to promote its own self-sufficiency would , he warned , undermine the power of " imperialism " and lay Libya open to attack , especially by the United States . |
| 2 | Germany 's position on the developmental ‘ gap ’ between East and West Europe , between the feudal and industrial worlds , meant that Germany was subject to fear of Western competition and envy of Western colonial markets ; the proximity of poorly developed lands to the East gave Germany the opportunity to rectify its lack of colonial holdings and to sink its internal problems in external conquest . |
| 3 | With the aid of a crane ‘ DRD was mounted on the pedestal on July 7 and took-up its new job as a permanent monument to the Norseman . |
| 4 | Mrs Padmore , having typed the interpretation of the remark , has gone back and altered its semantic status to fit the interpretation . |
| 5 | His opinion was that such a reduction would act as a stimulus to further development work , and recommended its immediate implementation . |
| 6 | Within the TSB system , models are available to help managers : test the effect on manpower of changes in systems and working methods ; evaluate the effects of changes such as alteration in hours of work , holiday entitlement , sickness patterns and incidence of training ; test the effect of changes in personnel policies such as recruitment , promotion , retirement , grading , career development ; analyse wastage and evaluate its likely effect on staffing : plan recruitment and training in the most cost effective way . |
| 7 | In the first multiparty elections since 1968 , Frederick Chiluba , leader of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , was elected President on Oct. 31 , ending the 27-year rule of Kenneth Kaunda , who led Zambia to independence and became its first President in October 1964 [ see p. 20373 ] . |
| 8 | With the incorporation of the town in 1900 he was elected to the council , and became its first mayor . |
| 9 | He was a founder member of the Society of Chemical Industry ( 1881 ) , and became its foreign secretary in 1910 , remaining so for a number of years , and president in 1911–12 and 1914 . |
| 10 | He held it to his nose and smelled its furry warmth , then spun it away from him with a twinge of regret at having torn it so wantonly . |
| 11 | Funnily enough , I felt better after a couple of pints at a pub in Maida Vale ; you know , the trendy one among Guardian readers which has the really stupid long name and brews its own beer in the cellar . |
| 12 | But my In Love body forgets about food and sleep and produces its own adrenalin to keep me flying through every hour . |
| 13 | The Canning Shirt Company at the Albert Dock puts transfers and lettering on T-shirts and produces its own designs , including Liverpool logos , which go down a bomb with the tourists . |
| 14 | Come and tickle its tiny toes and admire its baby-blue eyes ! |
| 15 | The families and friends waiting at the airport saw the plane break from a cloud at about 700 feet and make its final descent . |
| 16 | The locomotive is due to arrive at Bury by road and make its first appearance at a hastily-organised Great Western Weekend over the weekend of November 14–15 . |
| 17 | Its distinguishing characteristics are first the view that a class is partly constituted by the perceptions of its members , and second the belief , held either tacitly or openly , that the passage of history is marked by the growth of class consciousness , until a point in the future when an enlightened proletariat will be able to grasp its real interests and make its own history . |
| 18 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 19 | splits up and goes its separate ways we 're not getting ten gallons a minute through that pipe or through that or |
| 20 | The development of NVQs and SVQs is underpinned by the assumption that in order for Britain to maintain and enhance its economic position in an increasingly competitive market it requires a more qualified , skilled , flexible and adaptable workforce capable of acquiring the competences to cope with changing technology and methods of work . |
| 21 | To maintain and enhance its international reputation , RSRE demands a high-standard of recruit , but in return offers excellent opportunities for a successful and rewarding career . |
| 22 | Besides which , butler 's argument really moves at the level of phenomenology only , as an account of the conscious character of desire , and hardly takes on the idea of someone like Spinoza that all activity at a deeper level is a manifestation of the organism 's disposition to preserve and enhance its own being . |
| 23 | According to Bob Hunt , the ICI Chlor-Chemicals business must aim not only to maintain and enhance its competitive position in traditional high-tonnage products , but also to develop subsidiary businesses through a combination of increasing technical sophistication and aggressive international marketing . |
| 24 | This is a delightful , funny , quirky old thriller , belting along on high octane enthusiasm and using its copious quantities of High Tech to dress up a more human story which gleefully sings the praises of Spirit over Machine . |
| 25 | While one in ten agreed ICI was doing a fair share to reduce its impact and using its scientific skills to develop ‘ greener ’ products , the environment journalists still rated the company among the worst polluters — alongside British Coal , Fisons , British Nuclear Fuels and Powergen . |
| 26 | Marlow is understandably keen to play down the word fungus , preferring to describe it as myco-protein and stress its undeniable virtues such as its high fibre and protein content , coupled with low fat and non-existent cholesterol . |
| 27 | ROOMF ? it said , and lowered its enormous nose to sniff the little hedgehog . |
| 28 | Still hot , and completing its thermosetting process , the GRP rod continues on its way along the length of the machine in the company of another 24 or so rods which have passed through a parallel course . |
| 29 | He saw it as an economic drain and realised its damaging effect on Moscow 's international relations . |
| 30 | Later that year the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Magazine quoted these results in full and announced its own competition : |