Example sentences of "[vb pp] its [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 2 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 3 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 4 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |
| 5 | The organization of bureaucracy educated its members into the proper fulfilment of their duties ( Perez-Diaz 1978 , p. 12 ) . |
| 6 | Hoylake claimed that : ‘ BAT 's urge to conglomerate has diverted its attention from the traditional core business , tobacco towards ill-conceived diversification ’ . |
| 7 | Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition . |
| 8 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |
| 9 | Syria , having given its support to the United States-led anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf crisis , was currently enjoying the consequent improvement in its image in the West , and it was noticeable that there was hardly any international condemnation of its action in Lebanon . |
| 10 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 11 | One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables . |
| 12 | Each leaf on the Lemande Tree , given its name after the Old English word for shining and glittering , will represent a donation towards the appeal to build a glass-walled community centre for the elderly and mentally ill within an old church in Morningside , Edinburgh . |
| 13 | The ruling body of the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) has given its approval to the continued logging of key tropical forests in Malaysia and the Amazon . |
| 14 | It is submitted that it would be ill-advised to treat such statements made in one House after the Bill had completed its passage in the other House as an expression of the intention of , in the words of Lord Browne-Wilkinson , ‘ Parliament as a whole ’ . |
| 15 | The International Monetary Fund has just revised its estimates of the relative size of economies ( see page 95 ) . |
| 16 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |
| 17 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 18 | Scarcity limited its purchase to the wealthy and quinine did not become available generally for the treatment of malaria for another two hundred years , when the Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies . |
| 19 | From the beginning , the Association limited its activities to the 21 small towns in the region and , effectively , to the main settlements within this group ( Garbett-Edwards 1972 ) . |
| 20 | DataEase is one of those products that has hidden its light under the proverbial bushel . |
| 21 | David Thomson , who found the film ‘ gratuitous , misogynist , pretentious and repellent ’ , remarked about Hoffman that ‘ his adoption of violence at the climax is the more troubling because Peckinpah never seems to have explained its need to the gentle and perplexed actor . |
| 22 | But now it has revealed its plans for the next generation of VAXes to be built around the new Alpha RISC chip , DEC is again keen to push the advantages of staying with VAX . |
| 23 | As a result of his research into the social constituency of the leagues , Coetzee presents them as one of the means whereby the Conservative party broadened its support amongst the middle-class and crucial lower-middle-class voters , thus assisting its development from ‘ a loose conglomeration of agrarian interests to the predominant party of government in urban , industrial Britain' . |
| 24 | Prehistoric archaeology has immensely broadened its approach over the last twenty years . |
| 25 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 26 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 27 | The ‘ Lancashire ’ coffin appears not to have made its début until the second quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular . |
| 29 | Rushing belatedly to launch a Windows edition of 1-2-3 , the firm released a faulty version of the program and the firm has seen its share of the lucrative spreadsheet business slip to 48% . |
| 30 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |