Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also taken full control of its Spanish pharmaceuticals business , ICI-Farma , announced a £150million investment in a Taiwanese chemicals plant making the raw material for polyester fibre and trimmed its UK fertiliser business . |
| 2 | Wessex Water has received acceptances for 93 per cent of its one-for-six rights issue at 480p per new share . |
| 3 | Within the last 18 months , the company has sold : its European silicones business to Rhone-Poulenc for £30million ; four businesses from its Canadian offshoot CIL ; a computer software company to managers ; a West German printing inks business ; its over-the-counter drugs business in the US and Savlon in Britain ; a Canadian building products business to Trafalgar House ; and its Coopers Animal Health , which it owned with Wellcome , to Chicago-based Pitman-Moore ; During the period it has bought : Cambridge research Biochemicals ; a privatelyowned US acrylics company , K-S-H ; Rayca Chemical Corporation , which makes chemicals for the US textiles industry . |
| 4 | Unilever has high expectations of its booming cosmetics business , and if Burgmans delivers the goods , he should be in line for one of the coveted jobs on the so-called chief executive committee which governs the Anglo-Dutch enterprise . |
| 5 | Guinness , reflecting its strong profits performance , jumped 25p to 597p . |
| 6 | The final moments in the life of 79th Fighter Squadron — with the last ribbon added to the squadron 's battle streamer — symbolising all the battles it 's fought in during its 75 years service . |
| 7 | Despite earlier statements , both public and private , by members of the new right-leaning administration in France that they had no intention of making any immediate change in France Telecom 's status , the government told the telephone operator 's board of directors meeting last week to consider spinning off its mobile telecommunications business and opening it up to international investment . |
| 8 | Indeed the way that things are going can already be seen in the way that the company is letting its largest customers muck about with the internals of its operation with its Concert network management system . |
| 9 | At the time that these discussions were taking place , SCOTVEC had embarked upon its Advanced Courses Development Programme , and the college therefore seized the opportunity to meet these local training needs by submitting a proposal for a unitised HNC in Computer Aided Engineering . |
| 10 | In a move sanctioning an earlier measure adopted in July by the IAEA 's board of governors , the conference voted overwhelmingly to condemn Iraq for violating its IAEA safeguards agreement and for obstructing the implementation of UN resolutions aimed at eliminating its non-conventional weapons stocks . |
| 11 | But the station was praised for its regional opt-outs policy . |
| 12 | Both Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher have appointed BBC chairmen for personal reasons rather than suitable qualifications , and in 1988 the Conservative Government was strongly condemned for appointing its political partisans Lord Rees-Mogg ( to the Chairmanship of the BSC ) and Lord Chalfont ( to the Deputy-Chairmanship of the IBA ) . |
| 13 | As part of its general consultation process , Greater Glasgow health board consulted in respect of its acute services strategy for Glasgow . |
| 14 | Its Professional Services people will pursue users that require customisation and office information systems integration . |
| 15 | Its Professional Services people will pursue users that require customisation and OIS integration . |
| 16 | Following the recommendation of its armed services committee , the Senate passed a defence bill by 79 votes to 16 on Aug. 4 , which imposed deep cuts , amounting to $18,000 million , in the defence budget request of $307,000 million put forward by Bush for fiscal 1991 ( beginning October 1990 ) . |
| 17 | Notwithstanding threats of a presidential veto from Bush and Defence Secretary Dick Cheney , on the following day the House approved a defence budget drawn up by its armed services committee . |
| 18 | Political column Uniting Europe means rejecting its economic policies Ken Livingstone |
| 19 | In consequence , the Commission feels that this is an appropriate time to re-examine its agricultural structures policies . |
| 20 | It also outlines the implications of , and the reasons for , the current EEC review of its agricultural structures policies in general ( of which the LFA Directive is a part ) . |
| 21 | In November 1938 , the Cambridge Board produced two new major proposals for the development of its rural areas scheme . |
| 22 | The Cambridge board clearly perceived the Circular ; s exhortation as an opportunity to provide through its Rural Areas committee ( RAC ) both the forum and the mechanism called for and thus to develop its own role and expand its activities within a triumvirate of providers . |
| 23 | However , more discouraging from the District 's standpoint was the development by the Cambridge Board of its Rural Areas Committee policies for the region . |
| 24 | It will be recalled that following the mutual agreement over the continuation of the Bedfordshire scheme in 1930 and the exceptional arrangements made for Cambridgeshire , the Cambridge Board had established its Rural Areas Committee ( RAC ) in 1932 to expand its provision of Chapter III courses in both counties through the activities of its university resident tutors , Shearman and Baker . |
| 25 | All this activity led to a loosening of the earlier close relationships with the WEA and it was believed within the Federation that the new tutor was pursuing the Cambridge Board 's emerging policy for its rural areas programme . |
| 26 | Insurance group Guardian Royal Exchange has broken new ground by publishing a review by auditors Price Waterhouse in its interim results statement for the first half of 1992 . |
| 27 | Guinness , the international drinks business , has included an audit review from Price Waterhouse in its interim results statement for the six months to 30 June 1992 . |
| 28 | Heinemann introduces a new name , Sally Dalzell , in its Complete CAE Course , which should produce some healthy competition for CUP , Longman , Nelson et al . |
| 29 | The High Elf army may include a proportion of allies , up to a quarter of its total points value . |
| 30 | The Orc and Goblin army may include a proportion of allies worth up to a quarter of its total points value . |