Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | I designed my kitchen to complement its Gothic flavour . |
| 2 | After the fierce arguments of the previous decade it was necessary for my Group to explain its own rationale , and we did this in the second chapter of our Report . |
| 3 | Waiting for my breath to find its heavy keel I took a turn around the hired loft . |
| 4 | I had heard that name before , and searched my memory to discover its associations . |
| 5 | Prior to the meeting , delegates spoke openly about their differences , and the summit itself was notable in its decision to open its proceedings to journalists . |
| 6 | DEC has had to think again about its decision to scrap its OSF/1 operating system development on the MIPS platform , due to demand from customers already working on OSF/1 projects . |
| 7 | On 3 December , the governing party , the Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) , announced its decision to end its ten-year rule by reintroducing multi-party politics . |
| 8 | She was puzzled by her inability to repeat its results and even more puzzled by the data that purported to support them . |
| 9 | The Divisional Court upheld the scheme adopted by the GLC but the ground on which they did so seemed to be no more than that ‘ since the LTE could exercise its function to balance its revenue account by a grant from the GLC , a policy that reduced fares by means of such a grant was not unlawful ’ . |
| 10 | His voice was uneven as he raised his head , running a hand through her hair to lift its silken weight from her neck . |
| 11 | Her thoughts were growing darker : occasionally one would cause her heart to quicken its beat and then quieten again . |
| 12 | Two thousand eight hundred objections were received after the council announced its plans to site its new town hall at the Hazelbank park . |
| 13 | The City was particularly encouraged at its plans to merge its viscose and acrylic fibres operation with Hoechst of Germany . |
| 14 | The 88Open Consortium has announced its plans to license its compatibility test technology to other vendors and consortia — at a price ( UX No 401 ) . |
| 15 | As we argued here on 17 April , Labour 's failure in the 1992 election was more to do with its inability to mobilise its traditional base of support than with any inability to reach out to newer social groupings . |
| 16 | This results from the preoccupation of the ego with its lost object and its inability to detach its libido from it . |
| 17 | The point was that France was protesting not so much about its inability to get its way on agricultural policy nor about the latter 's incorporation into a package , but more about the political or supranational elements of the package . |
| 18 | A feeling of employment insecurity might be thought to stem from the agency 's lack of obligation to provide assignments on a continuous basis , and thus its inability to guarantee its workers a regular income . |
| 19 | In 1985 Ford failed in its attempt to merge its European car production facilities with those of Fiat , largely on the issue of which company would be dominant in the partnership . |
| 20 | If the use of political anti-semitism can be seen as a crucial stage in the decline of the BUF from a national movement to a localized racial populist organization , then its attempt to resurrect its political pretensions in the Peace Campaign of 1938 — 40 merely hastened its inevitable total destruction . |
| 21 | Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , California , has managed to pull 12 other companies behind it in its attempt to develop its APPI , Advanced Program-to-Program Internetworking alternative to IBM Corp 's Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking . |
| 22 | On Jan. 26 the Netherlands also announced its intention to withdraw its troops from West Germany and demanded immediate NATO defence budget cuts . |
| 23 | The Cambridge Board anticipated the publication of the UEMCC memorandum by declaring its intention to extend its rural areas scheme through the appointment of resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk . |
| 24 | In January 1993 , Charter Consolidated PLC ( ‘ Charter ’ ) announced its intention to sell its shareholding in Johnson Matthey . |
| 25 | MB-CARADON , the UK conglomerate yesterday signalled its intention to sell its 25.3 per cent stake in Carnaud-Metalbox , the French-based can-maker which contains the old Metal Box company . |
| 26 | Negotiators for the European Communities ( EC ) and the USA reached an accord on Nov. 20 on a long-running dispute over farm subsidies , thus seemingly opening the way for the conclusion of a worldwide free-trade accord to bring to an end the six-year negotiations in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see pp. 38888-89 ; 38939 ; 39170 ] , although bitter divisions within the EC threatened to persist , with France denouncing the deal and warning of its intention to block its final approval . |
| 27 | The United Kingdom government had on May 9 , 1989 , announced its intention to double its contribution to UNEP to $5,000,000 in 1989 , an intention also expressed by Finland , Malta , the Netherlands and Switzerland . |
| 28 | March 1992 : American fast food chain Arby 's announced its intention to develop its roast beef sandwich concept in the UK . |
| 29 | Last year , the Company announced its intention to distribute its products through Appointed Representatives in addition to independent financial advisers . |
| 30 | The Picasso Museum has announced its intention to increase its floor space by 1,500 square metres in 1996–97 . |