Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 . |
| 2 | Significantly , it says there has been slowing down of sales of its Sparc server systems over the last few months , and expects its European turnover for the coming year to remain flat at $15m . |
| 3 | The explosion destroyed a bar in an area known for its strong support for the Sacred Union . |
| 4 | The city itself , undaunted by the loss of £3m of public and private cash on its failed bid for the 1996 Games , will be spending a further hefty , though unspecified , sum . |
| 5 | The opposition 's agreement that Tshisekedi should remain its sole candidate for the post of Prime Minister was breached by an offer from Jean Nguza Karl I Bond , leader of the Union of Federalists and Independent Republicans ( UFERI ) , to act as interim prime minister under Mobutu . |
| 6 | Betterware , which describes itself as ‘ UK 's leading housewares retailer in direct home shopping' , has included an accountant 's review report from Robson Rhodes in its interim report for the 28 weeks ended 12 September 1992 . |
| 7 | The leisure group , which has a significant holding in Rank Xerox , has included a summary unaudited balance sheet in its interim report for the first time ( the report covers the 28 weeks ended 16 May 1992 ) . |
| 8 | Transworld Communications ( operator of independent radio stations ) devotes a page to an unaudited half year summary in its interim report for the first half of 1992 . |
| 9 | Laporte ( speciality chemicals ) has incorporated a restated group p&l account plus notes in its interim report for the six months ended 3 July 1992 , on the basis that the Interox restructuring had been completed on 1 January 1992 . |
| 10 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the insurance group has changed its accounting policy to reflect the total investment return — including realised and unrealised gains arising on its shareholder and general insurance funds — in its consolidated p&l account . |
| 11 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the European packaging manufacturer has included the gross preference share dividends on the UK redeemable preference shares in finance charges , rather than as a distribution out of the net profits after tax and minority interests . |
| 12 | However , shareholders continue to suffer as the group halved its total dividend for the second year in a row . |
| 13 | According to the energy campaigner of Friends of the Earth , Simon Roberts , " with this year 's applications for wind power alone the government could meet a quarter of its total target for the year 2000 " . |
| 14 | The Ministry was to spend considerably more than its total allocation for the period 1964–69 . |
| 15 | One of them recently ran out of petrol and had to do a 45-mile round trip for fuel when its total allocation for the whole shift was only 28 miles . |
| 16 | [ I ] t can not be satisfactory for the Department to have to substitute its commercial judgment for the Board 's in this way . |
| 17 | GEC Ferranti and the managing director of its Scottish operation for the last five years , Ron Dunn , are to part company , writes Marcello Mega . |
| 18 | ‘ Those who blur over that distinction do not understand its crucial importance for the successful handling of a whole series of intractable problems of which this is just , at the moment , the worst . ’ |
| 19 | This will be used to identify the structure , dynamics and boundaries of the complex and to analyse its historical origins and its contemporary relevance for the crisis and future prospects of the South African economy . |
| 20 | At first glance , Lambeth 's 2.25% discount from its standard rate for the first 12 months of the loan looks a slightly better deal than Portman 's 2.0% discount for the same period . |
| 21 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 22 | By March 1944 Hickson , as Secretary to the Cambridge Board which was then reviewing its future organisation for the post-war period , was sufficiently assured to write of the Rural Areas Committee : |
| 23 | By cutting one of the polar craft , it could save up to $50 million of its annual budget for the craft of $230 million . |
| 24 | In its Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 1985 , the CDA recorded that whereas , in August 1980 , 305 industrial co-operatives had been identified , the number was now about 1,200 . |
| 25 | Deaf and dumb people were bitterly disappointed , and the BDDA 's reaction is summed up in its annual report for the year 1932 : No aid from the State was considered even in the most pressing of all problems , the vocational training of school leavers . |
| 26 | According to the Smallholdings and Allotments Act of 1908 , a smallholding was defined as ‘ an agricultural holding more than one acre and not more than 50 acres in extent , though the area may be extended beyond 50 acres so long as its annual value for the purpose of income tax does not exceed £50 ’ . |
| 27 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
| 28 | It was reported on July 1 that the Japanese government had given its official approval for the use of the country 's old imperial hymn — Kimi ga Yo ( " Your majesty 's reign " ) — as the Japanese national anthem , despite the song 's past association with the period of Japanese military expansionism . |
| 29 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 30 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |