Example sentences of "of its [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the ironies of the 1980s is that while the East Coast main line started to take delivery of its second-generation 125mph equipment , the maximum speed of West Coast trains had only moved from 100 to 110mph . |
2 | The stated Saudi intention was to maintain current output at just over 8,000,000 bpd ( well in excess of its 5,400,000 bpd quota ) and to seek an increase in its allocation in the fourth quarter to 8,500,000 bpd . |
3 | Adkin Financial Services offers comprehensive financial advice and support to clients of Adkin based on the extensive experience and know-how of its professional staff . |
4 | The approach is essentially a cut-down version of its existing Series 90 — an eight-slot chassis that combines the company 's DNX 300 router with Token Ring or Ethernet hub boards . |
5 | They also voted against a plan to change the organisation 's name in the light of its changing role . |
6 | It had hoped that under 100 of its 360 staff would lose their jobs , hoped that many would stay in work as employees of Kontrax 's 15 dealers , which were wholly-owned but were to have been sold off as franchises under the scheme . |
7 | According to a report by Dr Chris Van Sway of the government funded Dutch Butterfly Foundation , the Netherlands has lost 15 of its 63 species and 10 more could be under threat . |
8 | Workforces were slashed : the Express group , for example , cut one-third of its 6,000 staff . |
9 | Four thousand of its 22,000 people died in the tragedy . |
10 | The microchip company has told more than half of its 216 staff that they must move to Germany next year — or face redundancy . |
11 | St Luke 's spent £40,000 on the building , gave away one of its full-time staff and several of its members and the new church began , slowly but surely , to grow . |
12 | BRITISH Airways last night faced the collapse of its planned £465m deal to buy into America 's United Airlines . |
13 | For those who have n't yet encountered it , thirtysomething is a weekly US TV show which has reached the end of its second series . |
14 | According to Engels , two-thirds of its working people possess no more than a single room per family , and Roberts 's figures are even more specific : 929 families have only one room , 623 only one bed . |
15 | Disk drive manufacturer Quantum Corp , Milpitas has opened Asia-Pacific regional sales and marketing headquarters in Singapore ; it also signed a deal with FIC , a manufacturer and distributor of subsystems in China , to distribute Quantum products there ; the Asia-Pacific region accounted for $204m or 19% of its worldwide sales in 1992 . |
16 | It has been known to ask a journalist for £50 for an hour 's help from one of its junior staff , something few other companies would do . |
17 | But then a sociology of culture must also concern itself with the social relations of its specific means of production . |
18 | The spirit and morale of a nation has no foundation more important than the self-reliance and confidence of its individual people . |
19 | Tourists from all over Europe came to Gran Canaria with no knowledge of its rare flora and fauna and with no interest at all in its environment . |
20 | By taking sole control of the capital 's most popular daily papers , the party committee deprived the city soviet of its principal media voice . |
21 | Some of the most compelling evidence comes from Tony Vine-Lott , the managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers Ltd , which has its base in the heart of Glasgow where 300 of its 500 staff work . |
22 | Santa Clara , California-based Kubota Pacific Inc , the US subsidiary of Japan 's Kubota Computer Corp , has delayed the release of its plug-in graphics subsystem for the MIPS Computer Systems Inc R3000 RISC-based Titan 1.0 it sells , and the DEC Alpha-based Titan 2.0 machine which it is readying . |
23 | See Page 4 ROVER DEAL : Rover Cars has won £9.4m order to supply 900 of its 200 series cars to pest control company Rentokil . |
24 | But analysts also said if the dividend had been cut , it might have made investors nervous about the July BT3 share flotation , when the government intends to sell all of its remaining 22% stake in the group . |
25 | The UK government yesterday set mid-July as the date for the sale of its remaining 22% holding in British Telecommunications Plc . |
26 | The Thien Tuong wooded area was denuded , and much of its once-rich fauna became virtually extinct . |
27 | SHARES in Psion leapt from 116p to 135p yesterday after the unlisted securities market-quoted computer maker announced a strong first quarter recovery in sales and profits on the back of its new Series 3 pocket computers . |
28 | Granada 's popular Asian magazine programme Chalte Chalte celebrates the start of its new series tonight with a Model Of The Year competition . |
29 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
30 | AFTER DARK TIA MARIA Tia Maria : UK accounts for a quarter of its global sales |