Example sentences of "its [noun] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were both so obsessed with the place , its gossip and rumours and intrigues , that they wanted to spend every possible moment together there , comparing notes , exchanging opinions : who was in , who out , what X said about Y's review of P's book about Q. Well , she was sick and tired of the place , tired of its beautiful architecture housing vanity and paranoia , glad to exchange its hothouse atmosphere for the real if smoky air of Rummidge . |
| 2 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 3 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 4 | When the Royal Society awarded Mendeleyev and Lothar Meyer its Davy medal for the discovery of the periodic law , Newlands renewed his campaign ; he eventually received the Davy medal in 1887 , but was never elected FRS . |
| 5 | The ESRC has adopted the context , adjustment and management of change as its research priority for the remainder of this decade . |
| 6 | The route in question was at Swanage and not at all difficult — getting its HVS grade for the seriousness of the climbing and not its difficulty and I 've certainly done harder in the last month . |
| 7 | In the UK , ICL plc has previewed its Search Accelerator for the Informix relational database running on Unix SVR4 . |
| 8 | The Article 7 argument would have allowed Germany to continue with its opt-out provision for the benefit of employees , but the argument does not imply that countries , such as the UK , which in their national legislation make the transfer compulsory upon both employee and employer , are acting inconsistently with Community law . |
| 9 | The Hong Kong Government emphasises that its deportation policy for the Vietnamese is no different from its policy of sending illegal Chinese immigrants back across the border . |
| 10 | The company is doubling its sponsorship deal for the Henley rowers . |
| 11 | The ambitious plans were revealed when the company threw open the doors of its showpiece development for the first time yesterday . |
| 12 | Records show a huge surge in deals on the high-risk , high-return traded options market 24 hours before Kingfisher , the Woolworths-to-B&Q retailing empire unveiled its takeover offer for the troubled Dixons group . |
| 13 | The TI Engineering company says its takeover bid for the Dowty Group does n't threaten jobs . |
| 14 | Most operators see this as an accounting nicety , but it would seem that BT is taking the directive much further , using it as the basis for building its business strategy for the next millennium . |
| 15 | Within the next few weeks , Sparc International Inc is going to release the next iteration of its interface definition for the Sparc RISC architecture . |
| 16 | Now VW has made a strong comeback with its 1,588cc diesel for the Golf 40 years later . |
| 17 | Adoption of Motif application programming interface specifications by X/Open Co Ltd offers a politically acceptable means for Sun Microsystems Inc to offer Motif products on its price list for the first time : its SunSoft Inc subsidiary plans to market Santa Cruz Operation Inc-owned IXI Ltd 's Motif toolkit under a deal already signed and due to be revealed soon ; subsequently SunSoft will offer a combined ‘ MoLook ’ -type COSE toolkit in first half 1994 . |
| 18 | Adoption of Motif application programming interface specifications by X/Open Co Ltd offers a politically acceptable means for Sun to offer Motif products on its price list for the first time . |
| 19 | Tetley Tea is sponsoring the Henry Cooper Golf Classic at Hanbury Manor , Hertfordshire , as the climax to its £500,000 appeal for the Variety Club , famous for helping needy children . |
| 20 | Eardisley would have been provided with its station building for the opening of the first part of the line in 1863 . |
| 21 | With the news that NCR Corp has joined the ranks of those opting for its Unix implementation for the iAPX-86 processor family , Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft subsidiary finally took the wrapping off its long-awaited Unix SVR4-based operating system environment last week . |
| 22 | But Dayglobe 's bid suffered a major setback last month when councillors rejected its planning application for the site . |
| 23 | The revelations followed the government 's decision in July 1989 to withdraw the Magnox reactors from its privatization plan for the electricity industry [ see p. 36820 ] . |
| 24 | BAe has announced it wants to recruit apprentices at its Broughton factory for the first time in three years . |
| 25 | Amid all the gloom of redundancies and take-over deals , BAe has announced it wants to recruit apprentices at its Broughton factory for the first time in three years . |
| 26 | Microsoft Corp is going to pull out all the stops this week at Windows World , its launch pad for the infamous Windows NT operating system . |
| 27 | Insignia Solutions Inc , the Mountain View , California and High Wycombe UK-based PC emulation specialist , has introduced a version of its SoftPC product for the Silicon Graphics Inc line of workstations and servers . |
| 28 | An announcement that its Globex system for the Chicago futures pits will begin trading on July 25 did nothing to help sentiment , with UBS Phillips & Drew advising clients to sell into any price strength . |
| 29 | When BP made its disastrous privatisation offering at the time of the crash , its profit forecast for the year ending 31 December , 1987 , computed in accordance with UK Gaap , was £1.45bn whereas its forecast based on US Gaap was 25 per cent lower at £1.1bn . |
| 30 | Cosequently , the Treasury does not know whether its spending overdraft for the coming budget year will be closer to $350 billion or $400 billion . |