Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I wish to move a petition signed by four hundred and one people organised by the Hikehams Community Association asking the full county council to freeze its decision on of the Hikehams and Moat er merger issue . |
2 | By 1980 , with the IPC ‘ H ’ line to Haifa long since closed , there remained the 1.4 million b/d ‘ T ’ line to Tripoli on the Lebanese coast , with its branch off to the Syrian port at Banias . |
3 | At the time it seemed as though the Midland had miraculously got its money back from the ill-fated venture . |
4 | For all the apparent scepticism levelled at these bodies from other quarters , the senior financial officers canvassed for their views of the ICAS research study found little to question in its setting out of the existing problems and the responsibilities for central elements of corporate governance . |
5 | Now , it was reaching out , spiralling its essence down towards the wormhole in the fabric of the Dark , ready to feed itself into the earthly plane , to become one with the Vessel . |
6 | Burning of the Dicranopteris , which acts as a nutrient-conservation system , leads to its shooting out from the rhizomes but trees can not get established . |
7 | I am sure that West Yorkshire will welcome any assistance that the schemes can give , and will also appreciate that its rate support grant has increased by 16 per cent. , but that does not mean that it can bring its force up to the required standard . |
8 | And , with the present government 's abolition of the local-authority Parker Morris house-building standards and its pruning down of the building control system , the standard of new homes may fall . |
9 | The government responded forcefully on Feb. 25 to prevent a second attempt by the movement to take its campaign on to the streets . |
10 | Several key factors will influence just how quickly Ireland can get its rugby back on the right track : fitness , tough competition and coaching . |
11 | Some of this , such as traveller 's joy ( Clematis vitalba ) , has extended its range on to the alkaline mortar-rich soils of the urban wasteland . |
12 | There were also rumours that Ford had now taken its stake up to the maximum 15 per cent allowed under the golden share held in Jaguar by the Government since its privatisation in 1984 . |
13 | I took it to Sir Henry Knight and we tried to trace its origin back through the telegraph service . |
14 | I am aware of most of its history in America , its formation out of the Pontiac Buggy Company , its takeover by General Motors and its sibling Pontiac — that is all fairly well documented . |
15 | The cockerel stood braced , shrilling its cry out into the mist , answering other calls from other compounds up and down across the hillside . |
16 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
17 | Meanwhile , the second capacitor passes its charge on to the third capacitor . |
18 | Britain , free of its ERM obligation to keep interest rates high and sterling strong , urged its recovery on with a massive easing of monetary policy . |
19 | Although its body was serpentine it moved , not by slithering along the ground , but by rearing the forward half of its body along in a coil . |
20 | Finally , even if all the factors mentioned so far are not influencing the cat , it may still turn its nose up at a particular dish of food . |
21 | Grindlewood , built in the Palladian style , turned its nose up at the rest of us with its columns and porticoes and pilasters . |
22 | TopLog says it is only waiting on Univel to get its stuff out of the door and was originally set to go this month . |
23 | Competitive equilibrium would ensure that each industry expanded its output up to the point at which price equals marginal cost and therefore social marginal benefit equals social marginal cost . |
24 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
25 | Add to this the recent announcements by Kodak and Xerox that they have adopted Adobe PostScript as a future imaging model and you begin to see a whole new world opening up where the PC is , at last , able to hold its head up in the Macintosh dominated publishing market . |
26 | The dragon folded its wings and poked its head in among the greenery , while its master leaned against a tree and whistled tunelessly . |
27 | This is another reason for travelling with the dog adequately restrained , rather than allowing it to put its head out of the window , like this Newfoundland . |
28 | Pushing its head out of the way , I thrust the flambeau into its stall , to see if there might be kerosene or paraffin stored there , or at least a good stack of hay . |
29 | Before the fungus kills the fly , it attacks its nervous system , changing its behaviour so that it climbs to the top of the plant , puts its head down to attach its proboscis to the leaf , and sticks its abdomen up into the air , ready for the passing breezes to take the spores away when they are released . |
30 | Ford retained market leadership with its share up from a lowly 20 per cent last September to 25 per cent — a volume increase from 34,421 to 38,445 . |