Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ worms in Lucretius ’ explanation of inflation works as follows : a trade union , because of its bargaining strength with monopoly powers , secures an increase in the remuneration of its members , say , 5 , 10 , 15 per cent — what they call ‘ excessive ’ or ‘ unjustified ’ . |
| 2 | The shop stewards movement , contrary to the arguments from some quarters , would not necessarily be demobilised in a context of incomes policy , but would be able to use its bargaining strength at enterprise level to insist on measures of control over the broader issues of enterprise policy . |
| 3 | Diplomatic sources commented that the government evidently hoped to use its successes at Mavinga to increase its bargaining power at ceasefire negotiations . |
| 4 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
| 5 | Once again , Marxists claim , medicine performs its camouflage trick for capitalism , masking the extent to which ill-health originates from the exploitation of workers in the production process itself . |
| 6 | OSF will go public with its ANDF decision after member and board meetings in Munich this week . |
| 7 | So if a dinosaur changed its skin colour from white to black it would cause a 7 or 8°C increase in body temperature ( so perhaps colour varied with size ? ) . |
| 8 | The latter was taken almost entirely from the wire services of Reuters and Agence France-presse , although the Times obtained stories from its sister papers in East Africa and the group 's London correspondent . |
| 9 | After passing through the 45-metre-deep ( 150 ft ) glacial basin of Lake Bohinj , it flows northward to join its sister stream near Lake Bled , and then through Slovenia and Croatia to join the Danube 940 km ( 587 miles ) away at Belgrade . |
| 10 | Bell Atlantic acquired its VLIW technology from minisupercomputer builder Multiflow Computers Inc for an undisclosed fee after the pioneer of that particular brand of computing threw in the towel back in 1990 when it ran out of cash ( UX No 276 ) . |
| 11 | The Biro is by nature a celibate creature which resents spilling its vinle essence upon paper . |
| 12 | But one of the first steps of the new UNO government may well be to wield its public-spending axe against health care . |
| 13 | When Adrian writes ‘ Nobody even noticed I was in the room ! ’ with its exclamation mark of outrage at the end , part of us says ‘ Of course they did n't notice . |
| 14 | Although it will compete against IBM with the boxes , Bull said it would also be working to configure the machines specifically for its own markets , and hope to be able to offer them to its banking customers for branch systems , for instance , in conjunction with its proprietary GCOS transaction processing servers ( see below ) , tied together through the Bull Distributed Computing Model ( based on OSF 's DCE ) . |
| 15 | Daimler has increasingly concentrated its defence activities on aerospace and the loss of the EFA radar contract would be a severe blow . |
| 16 | Daimler has increasingly concentrated its defence activities on aerospace and the loss of the EFA radar contract would be a severe blow . |
| 17 | A splendid reservoir and its catchment area of heather moorland and conifer forest are managed by the RSPB in agreement with the Severn-Trent Water Authority . |
| 18 | I shall be telling the Lancashire electors about the fact that the Tory party is financing its election campaign with money from Hong Kong , with £2 million from a Greek fascist and £440,000 from Asil Nadir — money which he stole from his company — and will the chairman of the Tory party — |
| 19 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 20 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 21 | The Government has clearly abandoned its election promise of tax cuts ‘ year on year ’ . |
| 22 | Although retaining its majority shareholding in development banks offering specialized loans , the government claimed that proceeds from the sale of its majority shareholding in others would be used to reduce the fiscal deficit and the burden of internal debt while consolidating the recovery of the economy . |
| 23 | Division Broadcast of Leicester has spent 10 years building up goodwill for its Digivision range of colour and monochrome display monitors for computers . |
| 24 | Earlier this year , Peugeot replaced its PC range of hammer drills with a higher specification range of percussion machines with confusingly similar code numbers . |
| 25 | The sums of money that have to be paid for these efforts and sacrifices will be called either its money cost of production , or , for shortness , its expenses of production ; they are the prices which have to be paid in order to call forth an adequate supply of the efforts and waitings that are required for making it ; or , in other words , they are its supply price . |
| 26 | After reading in Unigram last week about its co-marketing deal with Sun Microsystems Inc for Galaxy ( UX No 419 ) , Visix Software Inc called us to ask , ‘ What deal ? ’ |
| 27 | The Japanese government has resolved an internal split between its Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) and the Environment Agency by simultaneously presenting both departments ' favoured policies in its Action Programme to Arrest Global Warming , which will go forward to the world climate conference . |
| 28 | The building of sea-walls helped to protect its marsh manors from flooding . |
| 29 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
| 30 | My Lords , the case for relocating the areas that my Noble Friend spoke about , will be considered when the British Library has completed its investment appraisal for use of the surplus land . |