Example sentences of "and [vb infin] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Unlike a person whose actual reading betrays his powers of concentration , Mrs Varden 's pretended reading prevents her from actually reading , because in order to monitor and enjoy its communicative effect it would be impossible for Mrs Varden to accomplish the deed of reading in earnest . |
| 6 | It will continue to develop and market its PC-Xview line of X-Windows server software for MS-DOS- and Windows-based micros . |
| 7 | As a result , Quorum will continue to develop and market its cross-platform compatibility products without threat of further legal action . |
| 8 | Visual art has a rich and abundant language , and by learning to express and translate its varied vocabulary you gain not only the power to explore personal truths or create unique images , but you have the opportunity to show a rare insight into this diverse and extraordinary world . |
| 9 | Even those who are more relaxed about the prospect of a two-speed Europe , with a central core of countries , led by France and Germany and the Benelux states , going ahead to create the framework ( while the outer periphery enjoys the freedom to make and break its own exchange-rate and interest-rate policy ) , recognise that once the core has started to attract countries away from the periphery , the survivors face increasing isolation . |
| 10 | Women who reach higher education are not deemed to be successful by virtue of having done so ; on the contrary , higher education continues to exclude and marginalize its female students , pushing them further into ‘ female ’ jobs or marriage and family . |
| 11 | On June 12 , 1990 , the French government announced government funding worth F190,000 million to extend and improve its high-speed TGV ( train à grande vitesse ) network to cover 4,432 km by 2015 . |
| 12 | The great majority of molluscs have a minute , planktonic larval stage , a small ciliated object bearing no resemblance to the adult , that drifts as part of the plankton until ready to settle and assume its mature form . |
| 13 | But a small company may not set up and run its own scheme . |
| 14 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 15 | I also , I also actually said that a co a country that does not promote and sustain its cultural heritage in the widest sense of its world w in a word e er i is a country without a history and if you lose your social history and your culture , then you ca n't progress |
| 16 | It was the very access of consciousness — life 's arrival at the moment where it might contemplate and shape its own existence . |
| 17 | Like After Venus the wind from Africa , or Eurus , the east wind , Boreas from the North or the gentle Zephyrus , the imagination is free and can choose and create its own journey . |
| 18 | 14.3 If any Party sub-contracts any work under the Project it shall ensure that the Sub-contractor enters into an appropriate confidentiality and restricted use agreement and it shall further ensure that it acquired the right to disclose and sub-license results generated under the sub-contract to the same extent that it can disclose and licence its own results . |
| 19 | It is possible for the ward to collect and develop its own material . |
| 20 | Cultivations are then the only alternative until a grass break or green manure can allow soil life to regenerate and resume its proper role . |
| 21 | It is part of the spontaneous process which reason guides ; inference is indispensable to criticize and correct its spontaneous assimilations and differentiations , but can never abolish them and start again from logically impregnable foundations . |
| 22 | US concessions would allow the Soviet Union partially to modernize and test its next generation of SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) and leave the Soviet Backfire bomber out of the START treaty . |
| 23 | Specifically , by considering the themes of adaptability , accountability and technological coherence I believe we have principles and processes by which business might prompt the education service to question and change its own practices . |
| 24 | Once the company has achieved segmentation it can more clearly concentrate and aim its promotional effort at a particular target market . |
| 25 | From May , Caliban Books will market and distribute its own titles . |
| 26 | In a situation in which no one party is likely to be in an overall majority in the Commons then the electorate is just not in a position where it can realistically choose between alternative programmes and alternative teams of leaders sure in the knowledge that the winning team will be available to form a government and eager to try and implement its electoral programme . |
| 27 | Energis Ltd , the new company set up by the UK National Grid Co to build and operate its proposed fibre optic trunk telecommunications network with which it wants to compete with British Telecommunications Plc and Mercury Communications Ltd , is to invest £100m on laying fibre and installing digital exchanges : System X from GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd has already been eliminated from contention , but Northern Telecom Ltd is a lead contender . |
| 28 | Shareholders have previously given the Company authority to purchase and cancel its own shares . |
| 29 | Johnson Brothers is currently undergoing a complete review which incorporates a new company logo , new company colours and new packaging to support and reflect its revised brand positioning . |
| 30 | He believes the church must go further and examine its whole attitude to the ‘ rich mosaic of sexuality ’ . |