Example sentences of "it [to-vb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A phenomenon which can occur on a high speed reach when air bubbles work their way down the skeg and cause it to lose its grip in the water . |
| 2 | This aid is made possible by donations , legacies and fund-raising activities and the Society is grateful for all such financial aid to enable it to continue its work . |
| 3 | On Nov. 7 the Joint European Torus ( JET ) , based near Oxford in the UK ( see p. 36052 ) , had issued an appeal for an additional 400,000,000 ECU over the period to 1996 , to enable it to continue its research into nuclear fusion . |
| 4 | It has not yet reached that target and I urge it to re-examine its spending allocations to make sure that it does . |
| 5 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 6 | The favour shown it by the Mongols had enabled it to consolidate its position across Russia long before the Muscovite State managed to do so . |
| 7 | An MEP has made the point that the Parliament has simply not put down enough roots for it to be realistic to expect it to increase its powers . |
| 8 | It is assumed that it will find on the market , readily available , the correct quantity and quality of means of production and labour-power necessary for it to restart its production cycle . |
| 9 | In order to allow that spiritual dimension to breathe , in order to allow it to work its healing , transformative way , we have no option but to operate in the world as it is , and to operate as gradualists . |
| 10 | In a Spanish case in 1984 , the PSOE government intervened in the restructuring programme of the state-owned steel firm Aceriales , forcing it to modify its plans for severe cuts in the workforce . |
| 11 | Keen to integrate the building into everyday life , he has made a diagonal route through it to encourage its use as a short-cut , and has redesigned the square outside , down to recreating the original pattern of Roman paving . |
| 12 | After a month or so , its head has developed sufficiently to allow it to open its jaws . |
| 13 | Further adjustments of the output level and the profit margin as the firm becomes more acquainted with the market within which it operates , given sufficient time , may enable it to reach its objective . |
| 14 | ‘ Any organisation ought to subject itself to the sort of management consultancy which will allow it to define its objectives , ’ he believes . |
| 15 | Although any " alternative doctrine must be highly speculative " , the influential Halsbury 's Laws of England goes on to recognise that : " for many constitutional theorists the question of whether parliamentary sovereignty presupposes that Parliament must always remain sovereign and can not be bound by the legislation of its predecessors , or whether Parliament 's sovereignty entitles it to restrict its power to legislate , or deprive itself of the power to legislate , remains open . " |
| 16 | The US KRCA-TV Channel 62 is to use it to enhance its programme distribution , video post-production and satellite links , including connections to local sport and entertainment venues and the San Francisco Satellite Centre , a divisions of Watson Communication Systems Inc is to use it for local connections to its satellite teleports for US and overseas transmissions . |
| 17 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 18 | When your side wins an election , you expect it to help its followers by giving them plenty of undemanding if not very well-paid jobs ( kicking out the other lot 's placemen in the process ) , arranging nice little contracts , inventing new pension wheezes , and so on . |
| 19 | The CME hopes to entice more foreign users to its product range and thus enable it to globalise its contract markets without the need for linkages or extending pit trading hours . |
| 20 | This happens very quickly and the energy generated by the fusion can kick out the muon , releasing it to play its role as matchmaker again , acting as a ‘ catalyst ’ : hence ‘ muon catalysed fusion ’ was born . |
| 21 | Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . |
| 22 | Once an organisation is operational it is not unusual for it to extend its powers to matters outside the treaty , or to implement policies or decisions without following the procedural requirements of the treaty . |
| 23 | After the Reformation these traditions were regularized in a unique Poor Law which made each parish responsible for its own poor , and obliged it to finance its aid by levying a poor rate on its inhabitants . |
| 24 | Rough roads , however , of the sort council repair crews seem so keen to create , ruffle it slightly and cause it to slap its tyres on the road in protest . |
| 25 | For the DUP to embrace this accord and attempt to make it work would be for it to abandon its opposition to anything which presages a united Ireland . |
| 26 | USL repaid approximately $13m to AT&T from the proceeds and the remainder allows it to fund its cash flow requirements . |
| 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 | Not only did it meet the airline 's losses without the latter suffering any real penalty , but it enabled it to pursue its plans to take a 6 billion franc ( 37.5 per cent ) shareholding in the Belgian state-owned carrier Sabena , which was in an equally parlous financial state . |
| 29 | The move has been welcomed by Datarange , which says that the financial stability which its new parent will bring will better enable it to pursue its business strategy . |
| 30 | For example , blowing on the breast feathers of a bird of prey causes it to stretch its wings out . |