Example sentences of "[noun sg] of its [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bosses at the British Leather Company are considering making redundant the bulk of its workforce at factories in Birkenhead and Litherland . |
| 2 | Where a dominant influence exists over a public company , the dominant undertaking will be liable for any damage suffered by the public company and , more radically , for any debts incurred by the public company as a result of its acting at the direction of the dominant undertaking , although this will seemingly not be the case if the dominant undertaking 's influence is in fact exercised in the best interests of the public company . |
| 3 | It is therefore possible that PYY 's ability to inhibit motility in whole animal and human models is a result of its action at a more proximal level in the gut or at a central location . |
| 4 | Last February the grant from the SAC was withheld until the company conducted a major review of its plans at the request of the SAC 's music committee . |
| 5 | The Trust also believes that our countryside belongs to the whole nation , and an important part of its work at the Denmark Farm Conservation Centre involves creating public access to this pocket of living countryside and sharing it as a resource with local people and the many city- dwellers all over Britain who support the experiment financially . |
| 6 | However , the NCOAP directed the greater part of its invective at the moral issue , rather than at the prior financial one . |
| 7 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 8 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 9 | The very adventurous course of its politics at that time bore little resemblance to the mortal struggle in religious terms of the period of Antiochus IV . |
| 10 | ( One formed the impression that the Government was genuinely anxious about the precariousness of its policies at this time and was afraid that determined opponents might be able to sabotage these policies by questioning them through the news media . ) |
| 11 | Its machinery had to be capable of carrying out the role in relation to those institutions now designated as polytechnics — which , as we have seen , were far from homogeneous — and in relation to a large variety of other institutions with one or another proportion of its work at the level of CNAA degrees . |
| 12 | An alternative form might be for the corporation to sell a proportion of its products at strictly cost price to those sections of the community who are under-privileged and in need of these occasional subsidies . |
| 13 | The strongest growth of total employment was reported by the USSR , in Scandinavia ( which has the highest proportion of its population at work ) , and in a number of countries in central and eastern Europe such as Austria , Yugoslavia and Romania ( a broadly similar pattern is evident for manufacturing employment ) . |
| 14 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 15 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 16 | The broadcast blade split into mirroring fragments and she kicked the red tube of its handle at Zuleika 's head . |
| 17 | Rule 2 permits a litigant to apply to the court in an action against a firm for an order that full disclosure be made as to the identity and residence of its partners at the relevant time . |
| 18 | Perhaps , as the attacker 's jaws open wide to grab the small , furry shape , the potto acts like a jerking hedgehog and thrusts the back of its neck at the biting mouth . |
| 19 | By s. 288(1) of the 1985 Act every company must keep a register of its directors at its registered office , giving details of each director — name , address , nationality , business occupation , etc . |
| 20 | The NGC would present the whole of its evidence at the beginning of the inquiry , held mainly in Northallerton and expected to last more than two months . |
| 21 | A body may be acting within the scope of its authority at the outset but may , by the way it goes about taking the decision , go outside the four corners of the Act . |
| 22 | Nestle is offering contracts to dairy farmers working within reasonable supply distance of its factories at Omagh , Co Tyrone , Ashbourne , Derbyshire , Dalston , Cumbria and Girvan , Ayrshire . |
| 23 | Sakata has the welfare of its workers at heart . ’ |
| 24 | An illustration of the arguments underpinning this strategy was provided by a Soviet commentator who compared the Soviet abandonment of its naval base at Porkkala in 1955 with the American retention of its base at Guantanamo in Cuba . |
| 25 | It was once thought that the cuckoo could change the colour and pattern of its eggs at will , allowing it to lay in a range of different nests . |
| 26 | It rode along the counter , ringing the bell of its bicycle at intervals . |
| 27 | The continuing success of LASMO 's business depends upon the quality , commitment and performance of its employees at all levels , and upon their contributions being properly recognised . |
| 28 | The Group 's success is derived from the motivation of its staff at all levels to provide to customers the ‘ Rentokil ’ quality of service . |
| 29 | As a consequence , government has been able to expand the sphere of its operations at the expense of the peasant farmers whose primary produce formed the bulk of exports . |
| 30 | It 's the second incident of its kind at the hospital this year . |