Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] its " in BNC.

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1 Software Etc Stores Inc , Edina , Minnesota software retailer , got its offering of 800,000 shares , all new , away at $15.50 per share and intends to use the $12m or so net proceeds to accelerate its store expansion programme — opening 60 to 70 new stores in each of the next two years to add to the 42 currently open .
2 TI is already running trails to enable its policyholders , via a PC link , to apply for credit limits .
3 Hence MAS needs to sell its expertise .
4 On a more optimistic note , French Property News ( 081–942 0301 ) reports that the economic gloom failed to prevent nearly 7,000 visitors attending its exhibition held in London in September .
5 This is a measure that will cause real and conspicuous hardship , and the Government should occupy the year before its implementation in drawing up proper measures to soften its impact on vulnerable groups , not all of whom will be covered by upgrading of benefits .
6 This gives the bird only about 10 seconds to make its escape from a wide bodied Boeing 747 .
7 Halstead says that a 30-ton Brontosaurus would take about three days to change its temperature by 1°C .
8 Over two thirds of Japanese car workers operate in multi-skilled teams , compared with just 10 per cent in the UK , and the land of the risen yen puts in two and a half times as many hours training its new workers in those skills .
9 It may be doubted whether these sources were often on the credit side as long as the papacy had to pay out considerable sums to consolidate its position and to enter into compacts and agreements with some of the towns : but a list of revenues and rents from Spoleto in 1198 is not negligible .
10 To keep abreast of the needs of its ultimate customers — manufacturers and purchasers — five years ago British Airways formed its ‘ Shippers Club ’ , which today serves over 1,000 members .
11 How famous the Maker of Clouds must be , that even these strangers know its name , she says . ’
12 Two days on the trot carrying a big bag over thirty-six holes took its toll on me at only eighteen .
13 We meet the New Age and are influenced by it in everyday life , yet few Christians understand its full impact .
14 Ford 's chief designer , George W. Walker ( whose salary of $200,000 was perhaps the explanation why General Motors paid its president the curious figure of $201,000 ) , was dubbed ‘ the Benvenuto Cellini of Chrome ’ .
15 Their first LP , ‘ Reading , Writing And Arithmetic ’ , sold over 500,000 copies following its release in January 1990 .
16 For an authority is legitimate only if there are sufficient reasons to accept it , i.e. sufficient reasons to follow its directives regardless of the balance of reasons on the merits of such action .
17 The supermarket may hand out pretty green-and-white leaflets boasting its environmental concerns .
18 There were too many shadows obscuring its past , and still blurring the present .
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