Example sentences of "[vb pp] its [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 2 | Initially , a sheriff held that the case could go ahead at Greenock Sheriff Court but Mr Anderson , 22 , of Nelson Road , Gourock , has won its transfer to the Court of Session . |
| 3 | The point of this brier account of mistake is to show that at least one leading textbook of criminal law has distorted its presentation of the data because of a prior commitment to subjectivism . |
| 4 | How to achieve a political settlement without antagonizing an army which had committed its honour to the goal of total , unconditional victory ? |
| 5 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 6 | The Party had modified its opposition to the Government 's rearmament programme and the Left felt that this had inhibited the campaign against Chamberlain . |
| 7 | But it has stressed its commitment to the polluter-pays principle , and plans to introduce charges that will eventually cover the scheme 's costs . |
| 8 | The Group has added its name to the programme , organised by six of the United Kingdom 's leading voluntary organisations , which has developed well over 2,000 self-financing environmental schemes and green projects for small businesses since 1986 . |
| 9 | Friends of the Earth has added its name to the list of environmental groups which have condemned the government 's " set-aside " programme for redundant farmland , initially given a broad welcome by green campaigners . |
| 10 | He says the council has added its voice to the lobby against hunting . |
| 11 | The Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) has added its weight to the lobby for an environmentally friendly national transport policy and called for a series of measures to curb carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 12 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 13 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 14 | At this same time Force ‘ H ’ discharged its responsibilities for the ‘ Tiger ’ convoy to Admiral Cunningham 's force , the two fleets meeting some 40 miles south of Malta . |
| 15 | Liverpool , Merseyside computer games company Psygnosis Ltd , which has quadrupled its exports in the last three years — and has taken Japan by storm , was another winner as was Ipswich , Suffolk-based BT & D Technologies Ltd , the joint optoelectronic manufacturing venture between British Telecommunications Plc , E I du Pont de Nemours & Co Inc of Wilmington , Delaware . |
| 16 | That is illustrated by Rolls-Royce , which has quadrupled its share of the jet engine market since 1987 and , even today , by the news of the British Aerospace section , which has a £13 billion per annum order book and in size is second only to that in the United States . |
| 17 | The organization of bureaucracy educated its members into the proper fulfilment of their duties ( Perez-Diaz 1978 , p. 12 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 19 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 20 | On July 16 Israel restored full diplomatic relations with Austria , having downgraded its representation to the level of chargé d'affaires following the election to the Austrian presidency in 1986 of Kurt Waldheim , who had attempted to conceal his wartime military service in Yugoslavia . |
| 21 | That is why we have pursued its progress in the changes of society , as well as through individual story-telling . |
| 22 | Apart from the Swedish J21R this was the only successful production jet fighter based on a piston-engined design and as such has earned its place in the Museum . |
| 23 | The firm of sheriff officers , Love & Co , said it had cancelled its visit to the home of Jim Smeddon at Bonnyrigg on the advice of the police . |
| 24 | It was flawed because the council never formally considered its options under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 . |
| 25 | Pravda reappeared on Aug. 31 , having severed its connection with the CPSU . |
| 26 | Hoylake claimed that : ‘ BAT 's urge to conglomerate has diverted its attention from the traditional core business , tobacco towards ill-conceived diversification ’ . |
| 27 | Recently the NCC has diverted its interest from the Isles of Scilly , now under the auspices of the Isles of Scilly Environmental Trust , to Lindisfarne and surrounding area . |
| 28 | ( A Referendum Law had been passed on July 18 — see p. 38351 — but on Oct. 8 the Assembly had delayed its discussion of the issue . ) |
| 29 | Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire-based Uniplex developer Redwood International Ltd , which reckons to have trebled its exports in the last three years to become the leading Unix-based office automation system supplier , won due recognition . |
| 30 | The library resource centre was born , and reborn , and I have traced its development in the USA through successive decades of perpetual rediscovery , in two papers published elsewhere ( Beswick 1970 ; 1971 ) . |