Example sentences of "of its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of its 450 members , 162 last month signed a letter arguing that for the time being Ukraine should hold on to its nuclear weapons . |
| 2 | And , after all , a Russian first strike against the land-based missiles would still leave America with about 11000 of its 12,000 H-bombs , on submarines and bomb ers . |
| 3 | The 7th Divison alone lost all but 44 of its 400 officers and 2,336 of its 12,000 men . |
| 4 | Examples are W H Brakspear & Sons whose Henley brewery is ‘ renowned for the quality of its draught beers ’ , T D Ridley & Sons of Chelmsford , Essex ‘ many connoisseurs rate Ridley 's as some of the finest cask conditioned beers available in Britain' , and Wadworth & Co of Devizes , Wiltshire which has a ‘ highly regarded ale portfolio , led by the renowned 6X ’ . |
| 5 | It showed that nearly 50 per cent of the country 's conifers , and more than 25 per cent of its broadleaved trees , suffered from moderate or severe leaf loss during 1990 . |
| 6 | The struggle over the succession between Ahidjo and Biya , in spite of its curious circumstances , had only served to emphasize that the succession problem remained alive and unresolved . |
| 7 | The story of how Brian Thomas , one of the ‘ 72 Cup winners , came in and hauled the club out of its curious mixture of complacency and mediocrity is an example of what can be achieved in apparently inauspicious circumstances . |
| 8 | The next chapter describes BRAC 's initial attempts to gauge the success of Phase 1 of its Oral Therapy Extension Programme . |
| 9 | The second way by which BRAC gauged the effect of its Oral Therapy Extension Programme was by commissioning the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC to perform a study . |
| 10 | Our galaxy and other galaxies , however , must contain a large amount of " dark matter " that we can not see directly , but which we know must be there because of the influence of its gravitational attraction on the orbits of stars in the galaxies . |
| 11 | This , of course , influences the tides because of the importance of its gravitational pull on the world 's oceans and seas . |
| 12 | Accounting software house Sage Plc has finally launched the Macintosh version of its mid-range Sterling +2 package software , along with a revamped version of its MainLan peer-to-peer networking system and enhanced version of its Sovereign high end accounting system : the announcements were accompanied by the news that Sage Sterling +2 has now been included in the IT Recommended Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ; the Bookkeeper version of Sterling +2 for the Mac , available now , is £150 , the Accountant version is £350 ; MainLan 4.0 for MS-DOS and for Windows said to be faster and takes up 20% less memory than its predecessor is either £400 for the 16-bit starter kit boards or £200 with 8-bit boards ; the ‘ super enhanced ’ Sovereign 4.7 now has full EuroVAT reporting and improved profit and loss , stock take and help facilities and costs £350 for single users or £600 for multiple users . |
| 13 | Newcastle-on-Tyne-based accounting software house Sage Plc is looking to tap the Windows and Mac markets with its revamped peer-to-peer MainLan system and the promised Mac version of its mid-range Sterling +2 system . |
| 14 | Separately , Computer Associates International Inc , which is already doing Unix versions of its mainframe software , is to do a version of its Unicenter systems management software for Microsoft Windows NT . |
| 15 | In addition it will distribute 500,000 copies of its Start-up Guide for people starting their own business . |
| 16 | All but two of its visible nodes will be tied to the output of cells on a retina . |
| 17 | The BM is designed to accept as input a setting of some of its visible switches , and provide as output settings of the remaining visible switches . |
| 18 | Those benefits may be continued for a long succession of generations upon deserving objects , let us strenuously support our own undertaking : and may our children , and our children 's children feel an ardour even greater than our own in the cause of humanity ; so that as long as the County of Bedford exists , its Infirmary may be one of the chief objects of care , and one of the principal sources of its honest pride . ’ |
| 19 | That option would leave the Irish plant with less than a third of its 1,200 workforce . |
| 20 | One of its striking features is the way in which it grapples with the many difficult and conflicting issues which that report — and all the other soul-searching reviews of the 1980s — had highlighted . |
| 21 | As an example of its striking power , 28mm nails may be used , even into hardwood . |
| 22 | And the Government declared the dam project illegal — in spite of its expressed faith in co-operative ventures . |
| 23 | Frank 's reputation rests primarily on The Americans ( 1959 ) , a stunning collection of photographs which captured the underbelly of the United States — its poverty , its injustice and the yearnings of its alienated underclass . |
| 24 | As the family has shrunk it has also lost some of its traditional functions to the public world . |
| 25 | First championed by Chico Mendes , Extractive Reserves are areas where the forest is preserved for the use of its traditional inhabitants . |
| 26 | Syria 's decision results from £2 billion worth of Saudi aid and guarantees a free hand in Lebanon , as well as because of its traditional enmity towards Iraq . |
| 27 | Kirkcaldy is an area which has experienced both the decline of its traditional industries of coal mining and linoleum ( and in an earlier period textiles ) and the advent of new employment opportunities in electronics , light engineering and services . |
| 28 | Intel Corp is reportedly getting worried over the resources of its traditional vendors to weather market upheavals . |
| 29 | Quality will use the new money it raises in the share issue to develop what Parker sees as a massive market for its Universal On Line Accounting System , a modular , portable , single source , open systems version of its traditional OLAS product , designed to run a variety of servers , relational databases and graphical user interfaces . |
| 30 | How , then , can we reconceptualize the idea of rationality within higher education so as to convey something of its traditional promise , while confronting the dual problematic it faces ? |