Example sentences of "its [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The fact that its Photocards lost only £494 — eliminating 98.9 per cent of the predicted fraud — made the headlines in dozens of British newspapers .
2 It can not be pretended that either scholar 's career is entirely typical of its period-Hocazade 's career is unusually chaotic even for the later fifteenth century , Civizade 's in many respects unusually " regular " even for the later sixteenth century-but the degree to which they are atypic is not sufficient to give a misleading impression .
3 Until , that is , this November , when Cheltenham adds a third day to its Mackeson meeting .
4 Because of the greater size and expense of an L-R filter compared with its C-R counterpart , not to mention the less-ideal behaviour of inductors compared with capacitors , the C-R version of a filter is usually preferred to the L-R version .
5 The Messages for DOS product can stay primed to ‘ Pop-Up ’ from its TSR status by using a mere 6K of RAM .
6 Direct evidence that an associatively activated representation ( such as X ) can acquire associative strength when its CS is associated with a US has been produced by Holland ( 1981 ) .
7 This would stop , say , Sears putting on a Prime Option Visa card its own store account numbers or numbers for other financial services that it offers through its Dean Witter subsidiary .
8 Zenith Data Systems Europe , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA 's microcomputer subsidiary , announced eight new models of its Z-Station desktops , five ‘ network-ready ’ Z-Note and the Z-Lite 320L , which it calls a ‘ subnotebook ’ computer : the Z-Stations are based on the Intel 80486DX/2 66MHz and 50MHz and the 33MHz 80486SX processors ; three of the new Z-Note models are based on the Intel 80486SL chip , and two on the 25MHz 80386SL , and also feature a passive matrix colour display ; the Z-Lite 320L weighs 4 lbs and uses the 3.3V 80386 SL chip , which provides for between three and six hours of working between charges .
9 IBM Corp has sold the marketing rights for its CICS PD/MVS problem determination tool , for an undisclosed sum , back to Compuware Corp , the company that originally developed the system in 1989 .
10 The combined total will almost double its CICS user base to 2,500 .
11 Louth has its spire — the tallest and perhaps most beautiful parish church spire in England its King Edward school which educated at least three famous Lincolnshire sons : Alfred Lord Tennyson , Captain John Smith and Sir John Franklin .
12 North Korea has secretly produced more plutonium ( from which nuclear weapons can be made ) than it has owned up to ; it is suspected of building a bomb , despite its NPT promise not to do so .
13 Meanwhile , IBM 's Personal Systems Products division — which will have decamped to Austin , Texas , from its Somers , New York headquarters by the end of next quarter — is also working to port its DSOM object enabling technology — which is front-ended by HP 's Windows-based New Wave object interface — to Microsoft Corp Windows ( by the third quarter ) , Macintosh , Novell Inc and Sun environments in that order .
14 Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied the launch last week of its first two servers built around the 7100 superscalar version of the Precision Architecture RISC with the latest release of its HP-UX Unix , HP-UX 9.0 .
15 HP had DCE running across both its HP-UX and MPE-based PA-RISC workstations and severs .
16 Although Hewlett-Packard Co says it still plans to incorporate OSF/1 into its HP-UX Unix implementation , the timeframe for accomplishing that task is gradually being pushed back , and who knows what will happen before such a transition is complete .
17 The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives .
18 Lotto , meanwhile , is targeting the serious competitor with its Syn Game Low tennis show , of full grain leather upper and featuring the so-called Syn Pulse system , which provides energy return , stability and shock absorption .
19 Peregrine Systems Inc has extended its PNMS mainframe management software with a new component — PNMS Client/Server — to tackle multi-vendor Unix machine management as well as IBM Corp MVS mainframes .
20 BHC decided late last year to build five full-scale AP1-88s , each carrying 101 passengers , at its Cowes factory even though , so far , it has signed no further orders .
21 As soon as the Bundesbank announced at 2pm that its discount rate would go up to 6 per cent and its Lombard emergency funding rate to 8 per cent , the Bank of England pushed up the base lending rate of British banks to 15 per cent , the highest for eight years .
22 On Aug. 15 the Bundesbank had raised the discount rate from 6.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent , and its Lombard rate from 9.0 per cent to 9.25 per cent , in an effort to end the already substantial downward pressure on the Deutschmark .
23 The Bundesbank 's decision to cut its discount rate from 8 per cent to 7.5 per cent was widely welcomed , although leaving its Lombard rate unchanged at 9 per cent injected a note of caution to the markets .
24 NCR Corp cut prices by 11% to 19% on its NCR System 3000 model 3170 Notebook , and added a three-year extended warranty : end-user pricing is now from about $2,532 to $3,345 .
25 NCR Corp reports that Objectivity Inc 's Objectivity/DB object database management system is now up on its NCR System 3000 computers .
26 NCR also doubled the cache memory per processor on its NCR 3550 2 to 8 processor system to 512Kb .
27 Despite its Exmoor origins , the Devon has proved as tolerant of hot climates as it is of cold wet ones and is now reared extensively in Australia , New Zealand , the USA , Brazil and Jamaica .
28 The donkey had been moved from its Exmoor sanctuary to graze during the summer .
29 At the County Ground tomorrow … its Swindon against Charlton …
30 Hereford go to Colchester … on Wednesday its Swindon versus Bristol City … next stop for us is The Tideway in London and the countdown to this year 's Boat Race …
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