Example sentences of "[prep] its [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Once operational , the existing scouring machine presently located in the dye house will be moved along-side its new partner , where foundation work has already been completed for this major operation . |
| 2 | However , there were indications last night that some Communist deputies may seek to complicate the vote , by not turning up in sufficient numbers , or to delay it , possibly by as much as three weeks , to allow their own party to re-group after its recent humiliations . |
| 3 | LAURA Ashley , at 93p , will tomorrow announce a return to trading profit after its recent setbacks . |
| 4 | Keep on using lead free if the engine is not set properly after its recent service . |
| 5 | There is always another side to the story of course , and IBM still has its apologists : Tim Mead , who was lately in charge at Datamation magazine , another former icon now down on its luck , wrote an outraged letter to the Wall Street Journal after its recent critical piece . |
| 6 | Trans Provincial Airlines Bristol 170 Freighter C-FDFC ( ex-BISU ) looking very smart after its recent repaint |
| 7 | The Greenfield committee , so named after its eminent chairman Dr James Greenfield prescribed 14 doses of medicine for an ailing National Health Service ( NHS ) . |
| 8 | Our period opens with the imperial coronation of 962 ; shortly after its close , in 1165 , Frederick Barbarossa had Charlemagne canonized by his anti-pope Paschal III . |
| 9 | Macquarie Island , close to the Antarctic Convergence , has a resident population of common redpolls Acanthis flammea , a species which spread south to subantarctic islands after its nineteenth-century introduction into New Zealand from Europe . |
| 10 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 11 | As there was no other business the Conference concluded quickly after its momentous decision to set up a national organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 12 | Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor . |
| 13 | In the case of a licensing board for a district or division of a district , the members were to be elected at the first meeting of the district council after its ordinary election in 1977 and thereafter after every ordinary election . |
| 14 | The first round of the presidential elections was notable for the fact that both main candidates attracted substantially more votes than their parties had received in the parliamentary elections , even though in the case of Constantinescu , the rector of Bucharest University , he had only been named as a compromise choice at the July 27 DCR Congress ( the NLP having left the alliance after its unsuccessful bid to persuade ex-King Mihai ( Michael ) to stand as a presidential candidate ) . |
| 15 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 16 | This last point is particularly pertinent to the issue of how responsibilities between kin have changed , because the idea persists that in the past there was a time when ‘ the family ’ had a stronger sense of responsibility towards looking after its young , old and sick members . |
| 17 | The late medieval story of a small place such as Thaxted , with its mass of late medieval timber buildings , survives because it failed to develop after its early period of prosperity as a wool town . |
| 18 | Next week it 's redundancy , the week after its rejigging logic : districts , clusters , satellites , spokes . |
| 19 | Some 46 years after its fiery end , the remains of Spitfire R6644 were excavated by the Malvern Spitfire Team , the parts restored and a memorial to the pilot erected . |
| 20 | Chelsea old Church has a monument in memory of Sir Hans Sloane ; but additional permanent memorials are the streets , square , crescent and terrace in the Chelsea area , named after its magnanimous citizen . |
| 21 | Ray Kipling voiced the Institution 's appreciation of the train 's name , saying : ‘ The RNLI is delighted that an InterCity 125 is to be named Storm Force after its junior club . |
| 22 | After its final reconstruction , it was to bear the main road and railway out of Portmadoc , named in honour of its founder , who , with sublime inconsistency , passionately espoused the fashionable ideals of picturesque landscape . |
| 23 | In addition , the last radio reports purportedly from the Rose-Noelle had been received on 6 and 9 June — days after its capsize — the latter giving its position as near the Kermadec islands , en route to Tonga and 620 miles north of Auckland . |
| 24 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 25 | The most important rebellion was that of 1773–74 , named after its Cossack leader Emilyan Pugachev . |
| 26 | First , the Renault Clio has now reached our market , after its European introduction last year ( and triumph in the Car of the Year stakes ) . |
| 27 | However , on Dec. 1 an agreement was reached between the three coalition partners , two smaller centre parties outside the government and , for the first time , the FrP , whose bargaining position had been strengthened after its strong showing in the local election a week earlier [ see above ] . |
| 28 | After its turbid passage through the twin cities the Ankh could have been one of them . |
| 29 | Opren , the anti-arthritis drug , was banned after its large-scale use and Mexico found itself unable to meet its international debts because it had discovered enormous oil resources . |
| 30 | A private member , Humphrey Berkeley MP , picked up Arran 's Bill after its successful third reading and introduced it in the Commons . |