Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Food Programme is helping with its largest ‘ food for work ’ scheme in Africa . |
| 2 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 3 | HyperSparc is Cypress ' Mbus-compatible alternative to the Texas Instruments Inc superscalar SuperSparc chip ( or Viking as it is often referred to ) , which Sun Microsystems Inc is using in its new generation of Sparcstation 10 systems . |
| 4 | I especially draw the attention of the House to positive relationships that the board has established with 102 training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies for the provision of training for about 20,000 young people on its youth training schemes and to the £6.5 million that it is using from its reserves this year to maintain the momentum of training in the industry . |
| 5 | My diesel shortly is a terrible smoker , I have only had this vehicle for three months ( 1985 vintage ) but have covered about 3000 miles and tried all of the adjustments to reduce its habit , The clock reads 30,000 miles and the distributor pump is adjusted to its maximum in an attempt to reduce the smoke , but I can not stop it . |
| 6 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA , DEC 's European Alpha partner , will port Unix System Labs Inc 's operating system to the DEC Alpha machines it is to resell under its own name from next May . |
| 7 | Some of the ambivalence shown by recipient countries towards aid is explained by its utility as a means of freeing local resources to finance projects which otherwise might get squeezed out , but which might have important political attractions . |
| 8 | Much about its character after 1944 is explained by its previous history . |
| 9 | Similarly , in Miller 's second example , the shift by particular cutlery businesses from carbon to stainless steel is explained by its tendency to make their enterprises more competitive . |
| 10 | As feminist psychology becomes more popular , and extends its spheres of investigation , it is crystallizing from its mixed medical , anthropological , sociological , literary , and feminist antecedents , into a more specifically psychological form . |
| 11 | Its mellow character is compounded of its age , its comfortable lack of pretension and the various roles it has to play as farm , design studio and home . ’ |
| 12 | In such a situation the head office 's necessary lack of insight into the dynamics of the individual businesses is compounded by its over-reliance on the major formally rational means of control over local management and assessment of business prospects — that is , dependence upon financial calculations and accounting techniques premised on the divisional form . |
| 13 | ‘ The hand of the corpse is hacked off ; the name of the person whom the witch or warlock wishes to hurt is placed between its fingers and then it 's buried at the foot of a gibbet on the first stroke of midnight . ’ |
| 14 | This dries out downwards , just as a wet towel dries out if it is placed with its top in a current of warm air . |
| 15 | Hectographic carbon paper is placed with its coated surface upwards and the glossy surface of the special paper is placed down on to it . |
| 16 | A robin will attack a bundle of red feathers , a socialist politician will verbally attack a right-wing conservative , a spider will attempt to tie up a vibrating tuning fork if the tip is placed upon its web . |
| 17 | It is best if lead training is started quite young so that , as an older puppy , it will freely accept a check chain when it is placed around its neck . |
| 18 | We are trying to suggest here that academic enterprise may be useful as long as it is placed in its proper social context . |
| 19 | When the autoset cam driver is placed in its holder at the left end of the ribber bed , the autoset lever will be reversed every time the carriages go into the colour changer . |
| 20 | When Roland Barthes writes of Garbo 's face , a paradox is placed in its image , since the very essence of Garbo 's face ( that this face is Garbo 's and no other ) is posed in its absolute mask-like quality , by the face in its impersonality , in its very indifference . |
| 21 | His general point is that the debt burden debate is resolved when each of its aspects is placed in its appropriate ‘ cost ’ category . |
| 22 | A strategy 's niceness is recognized by its behaviour , not by its motives ( for it has none ) nor by the personality of its author ( who has faded into the background by the time the program is running in the computer ) . |
| 23 | What matters is not its conformity to rules , but the fact that it communicates and is recognized by its receivers as coherent . |
| 24 | To get an idea of some of the many different features that can be produced , consider what happens to a single , large flow as it is traced from its source to its tip . |
| 25 | The organization is heavily overspent , and is drawing on its working capital to finance the next meeting at its Yokohama , Japan , headquarters in November . |
| 26 | For example , Waddington , which enjoyed a successful autumn season with its beautiful exhibition of new paintings by Sean Scully and a string of sales during Cork Street 's open weekend at the end of November , is drawing upon its vast resources of stock , while mounting an exhibition of Barry Flanagan 's large bronze sculptures at Art Miami 93 . |
| 27 | Waddington is drawing upon its gallery stock ( to 27 February ) in an extension of last month 's exhibition and is featuring modern masters including Picasso , Miró , Dubuffet and Ivon Hitchens whose centenary exhibition opens at Bernard Jacobson at the end of this month ( 23 February-1 April ) . |
| 28 | still has all the original documentation for the car and believes the 51,000 miles on the speedo to be true , but he is fascinated by its history and would like to find our more . |
| 29 | The car 's liveliness is counter-balanced by its extreme safety : there is plenty of top quality metal to protect passengers from possible collision damage . |
| 30 | Santa Clara , California-based Kubota Pacific Inc will introduce a high performance graphics subsystem in March : the thing is intended for its DEC Alpha RISC-based Titan 2.0 , a multiprocessing three-dimensional workstation due later this year , as well as Kubota 's Mips Technologies Inc R3000-based Titan 1.0 machine . |