Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [det] its [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By using a set of standard terms for all its contracts the business can achieve many of the benefits of a detailed contract for all its transactions , without incurring the costs and trouble which individual negotiation would involve .
2 When an engineer calls up the plans for a jet engine , the information in the definition of that object allows the system — automatically and efficiently — to retrieve the plans for all its sub-components .
3 From September until the end of March 1993 the organisation will be following through a plan of restructuring and its constant search to find future funding for both its core activities and to develop further aspects of its collection and educational work .
4 A state is a set of values for all its switches ; so if the BM has N nodes , then it has 2 possible states .
5 The OmniPoint Procurement Guide , which aims to enhance interoperability between products and systems based on different standards , is to be incorporated into Telekom 's procurement guidelines for all its data services , including packet- switched , Frame Relay and Metropolitan Area Networks , and leased line services .
6 At present it would be unrealistic to think in terms of every parish being able to sustain a catechetical programme for all its parishioners .
7 Despite its many faults , it is striving to build a better future for all its citizens — of whatever colour , creed or origin .
8 Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education .
9 But the chief joy despite several eye-catching supporting roles remains watching Courtenay milk the script for all its worth .
10 The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations .
11 Yesterday it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m .
12 Last week it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m .
13 The BM tries to find the best settings of all its switches , subject to any restrictions placed on any in V. What counts as ’ best ’ depends on the values of its weights .
14 These affect work carried out on client sites and Courtaulds Engineering already has a system in place to oversee the safety aspects of all its contract projects .
15 Its latest catalogue is full of stylishly shot pictures of all its ranges , but prices remain very reasonable .
16 The European Commission has announced a wide-ranging review of all its directives on water quality .
17 But the acquisition of those very virtues requires the student to submit to the demands of intellectual life , as experienced within an institution with all its vicissitudes .
18 The G.W. condemned stock from all its depots , but as no name is quoted the assumption is that it was from Swindon .
19 This was recovered and rejoined its partner to appear on Whit Tuesday in all its glory .
20 I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also .
21 It is a textbook for the study of dramatic irony in all its forms .
22 It is important at this stage to point out two serious limitations of the IS-LM model and these should be borne in mind in all its applications .
23 It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap .
24 For poverty is by no means passive ; it gives rise to hopelessness ; to a general cheapening of essential values ; and to crime in all its forms . ’
25 But it is treatment , not subject matter , which determines the stance of the artist — not the ‘ what ’ , but the ‘ how ’ and the ‘ why ’ — and studies of wickedness , even those which depict the crime in all its brutality , may nevertheless illuminate , appal or even deter .
26 ‘ The NFU is well known for representing farmers , and it 's necessary for the BHA to be easily understood as representing the hospitality industry in all its forms , ’ he said .
27 Tolstoy , uneasy about his wealth , wanted to reject violence in all its forms and live like a peasant .
28 ‘ The mindless violence , the personal attacks and injury , ’ asserted Philip Knights , President of the Association of Chief Police Officers , ‘ and above all the use of violence in all its forms to further political creeds , are relatively new to the streets of this country . ’
29 It aimed to ‘ demystify human violence in all its forms ’ , and , unsurprisingly , it failed .
30 Underlining the commitment to disarmament and arms control , the declaration called on all member states " to prevent the proliferation in all its aspects of all weapons of mass destruction " and " to avoid excessive and destabilizing accumulation and transfers of arms " .
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