Example sentences of "it [verb] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It applied its new cash limits to approvals of local capital spending and to local grants . |
| 2 | However , the company plans to buy shelf space in the New Year , when it launches its new title , House Beautiful , as a monthly magazine . |
| 3 | The court ruling comes at a sensitive time for the Japanese government , which is claiming a lead role in environmental affairs , and has strenuously denied that it encourages its hazardous industries to relocate to third world countries . |
| 4 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 5 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 6 | Electronic Retailing Systems International Inc , Wilton , Connecticut developer and marketer of electronic shelf labelling systems , reports that it got its initial public offering of 1.6m shares , 1.3m of them new , away at $13 a share . |
| 7 | CUCGA intends within five years to have ( i ) established relations with the media , Government Departments , Members of both Houses of Parliament and other bodies with an interest in higher education ; ( ii ) established itself as a campaigning body on behalf of graduate organisations ; ( iii ) opened its membership to encompass all university convocations and analogous bodies in the UK ; ( iv ) established methods of funding to allow it to support its expanded role ; ( v ) developed a comprehensive portfolio of policy issues upon which it can actively and publicly campaign at appropriate times . |
| 8 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 9 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 10 | THE LEITH Aged Mariners ' Fund asks members of the public and companies to send donations to enable it to continue its financial assistance to more than 100 former merchant seamen and their dependants . |
| 11 | Interactive Network Inc , pioneering interactive television services from its Mountain View base , pulled its offering of 2.5m shares due to market conditions , and has turned to four of its shareholders , National Broadcasting Co Inc ; Gannett Co Inc ; Rainbow Programming Holdings Inc and Paul Kagan , which together provided a short-term loan to enable it to continue its current operations . |
| 12 | Did it tumble then , did it hurt its little self ? ’ |
| 13 | The fact remains that it will be a long time before the legal profession properly shakes off the constraints of client expectation that force it to underplay its modern role . |
| 14 | There could be unlawful discrimination in the admission of pupils ( as discussed in Chapter 4 ) , in a pupil 's access to benefits , facilities and services provided by the school , or by the LEA in the way it fulfils its broad duties under the Education Acts . |
| 15 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
| 16 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 17 | Just as birdsong awoke the unit , an owl is heard calling as it flies its nightly patrol over |
| 18 | Although the merger did not dramatically increase the main opposition party 's size , it expanded its geographical area of support beyond the PPD 's traditional south-western stronghold around Kwangju . |
| 19 | But can it survive its new boss ? |
| 20 | Indeed , even when the Schools Council diverted its attention to the whole curriculum , in contrast to its preoccupation with individual areas or aspects , it maintained its non-recommendatory stance . |
| 21 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 22 | the day-to-day learning programme ( analysing it to discover its remedial/ therapeutic potential ) |
| 23 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 24 | One might say that when a particular household is confronted by a mystical threat , it dissolves its individual identity into that of a larger social unit whose size is determined by the severity of the threat . |
| 25 | Essentially a single-breasted riding coat with the tails removed and the fronts considerably shortened , it retained its pronounced waist . |
| 26 | He also began to assert that capitalism would be able to survive class struggles in Europe while it retained its powerful economic base in the colonies . |
| 27 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 28 | It retained its old destination boxes and other appointments . |
| 29 | Always a big , fleshy animal , it retained its large frame when many other British cattle became fashionably short-legged and stocky in the 1940s . |
| 30 | The clue to the GL 's satisfying performance is that it develops its maximum torque at a modest 2,500 rpm , pulling strongly from low revs , making it an easy-going cruiser without the need for constant recourse to the five-speed gearbox . |