Example sentences of "its [noun] 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 organization had already terminated its activities at the outbreak of war , although members still met unofficially in Gilbert 's house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 7 | These were three salient and interconnected issues for the CNAA and its institutions at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Last February the grant from the SAC was withheld until the company conducted a major review of its plans at the request of the SAC 's music committee . |
| 10 | I soon became bored , realizing that I was n't going to get much chance to compete for the club — my best time was 23.3 seconds for 200 metres — so I joined the second club with its headquarters at the track , London Irish , which was more intimate and not quite so awe-inspiring . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Institute 's new exhibition stand , which made its debut at the Funeral Services Exhibition at Mottram Hall . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | An interim car will make its debut at the start of next season . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | • 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Dave Punshon , chairman of the Consumer Protection Committee , says its presence at the show demonstrates the boat 's state-of-the-art technology . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The airline will operate a Tuesday and Sunday service to St Petersburg , expanding its operations at the Essex airport . |
| 21 | As a consequence , government has been able to expand the sphere of its operations at the expense of the peasant farmers whose primary produce formed the bulk of exports . |
| 22 | In its role as the chief purveyor of propaganda and agitation , the press had shifted its accent at the start of NEP . |
| 23 | The Ulster human rights group , the Committee on the Administration of Justice , has expressed its disappointment at the decision . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Artfully and sensibly , the red-throated bee-eater of Nigeria starts its labours at the end of the rainy season when the ground is relatively soft , even though it will not be ready to lay its eggs for another three months . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Rough Trade was already smacking its lips at the prospect of a massive selling LP . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Although the launch date for Windows NT is yet to be released , the system is in its final stages of development and was certainly put through its paces at the exhibition . |