Example sentences of "[det] [prep] its [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way it would accept the notion that social psychology produces historically relative knowledge ( Gergen , 1973 ) and take this as its main point of theoretical departure . |
| 2 | In a deal signed at Pakistan 's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources last month , LASMO Oil Pakistan [ LOPL ] assigned half of its working interest in its block 36 licence to Shell , marking the oil giant 's return to the country after nearly 10 years . |
| 3 | Members of the EP voted on Jan. 18 , 1989 , by 222 votes to 172 that the Parliament should be allowed to transfer about half of its total staff of 2,100 to Brussels and to hold " exceptional " plenary meetings elsewhere than in Strasbourg , ie in Brussels . |
| 4 | But , there will also be many instances where the oven is only working to half or less than half of its full capacity for most of the day . |
| 5 | The Supreme Soviet in the Abkhaz ASSR voted on Aug. 25 ( with barely half of its 140 deputies in attendance ) to declare independence from Georgia and restoration of the full republican status Abkhazia had enjoyed between 1921 and 1930 . |
| 6 | This chapter describes the ACORN system in some detail , and examines some of its specific applications to market segmentation and consumer targeting . |
| 7 | Building on the earlier work , this study investigates some of its unanswered questions in the context of City Technology Colleges ( CTCs ) ; institutions which , themselves , were created to be innovatory . |
| 8 | The Atomic Energy Authority is giving some of its protective equipment to the Ukraine to help with the continuing clean-up operation at Chernobyl . |
| 9 | The Bank 's other defence is that some of its recent studies on Africa — of which there are horribly many — suggest that the closing years of the 1980s did indeed see stronger growth and lower inflation in the countries it lent to . |
| 10 | BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines . |
| 11 | BRITISH Airways put some of its recent troubles behind it last night when the Clinton administration approved a $300 million investment by the British airline in USAir Group , in the process overriding objections from the three largest US airlines . |
| 12 | In November 1991 , during a second Russian Revolution , the Department of Slavonic Studies reunited some of its former students from the more recent past , to celebrate the anniversary . |
| 13 | On April 6 the CRA repealed some of its restrictive edicts from the early 1960s , including those directed against Jehovah 's Witnesses and Baptists . |
| 14 | According to Western media reports , the meeting agreed in principle to allow the SOC to retain some of its armed forces during the period prior to elections . |
| 15 | In 1880 , some of its greatest successes in diffusing its institutions and ideas were still to come . |
| 16 | His library , the Bibliotheca Corviniana , was one of the most renowned in Europe and the exhibition had brought together some of its scattered codexes from Paris and London , Tokyo , Rome , New York . |
| 17 | The inhibitory CS is supposed to owe some of its behavioural effects to the fact that activity in the ‘ no-US centre ’ inhibits that in the ‘ US centre ’ . |
| 18 | When it becomes necessary for a bank to liquidate some of its liquid assets in order that it may then have a desired liquidity position , it will , as has been explained , sell to other banks or discount houses . |
| 19 | Nuttall points to various difficulties with this model and some of its possible effects in narrowing pupils ’ learning opportunities . |
| 20 | The conversation lost some of its helpful nature after this and was ended only when the Smallholder demanded to know ‘ Ooever ahst Andy Sandham to baht dowen the order ? ’ and even the Old Stager forbore to express the comparisons between Sandham and the Smallholder which billowed behind his lips . |
| 21 | Furthermore , unlike some of its European neighbors with feudal histories , it has witnessed no revolutionary break with past experience . |
| 22 | One school suddenly lost some of its best students over a period of a few weeks . |
| 23 | The ‘ great rebuilding ’ which affected most of England between 1540 and 1640 saw some of its finest manifestations in the county , as a wealthy and more educated secular leadership diverted funds and investment from religious ends to their own grandeur . |
| 24 | As the family has shrunk it has also lost some of its traditional functions to the public world . |
| 25 | , The Bank of England is planning to transform some of its used banknotes into compost . |
| 26 | Regrettably , like some of its other statements on primary education , many of these were strong on values and assertion but weak on substance and justification . |
| 27 | Bristol , too , was in decline , losing some of its old trade to Southampton and Exeter , so its merchants could have had less to invest in this enterprise . |
| 28 | Later , Anthony Eden , by that time in the Cabinet as Minister of the League of Nations Affairs though still a Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs , went to Rome with the intent of offering Abyssinia territory in Somaliland in return for conceding some of its own territory to Italy . |
| 29 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 30 | As a number of alternatives to and criticisms of Saussure 's theory will be discussed in the following chapters , 1 shall only mention here some of its positive implications for the study of literature . |