Example sentences of "[to-vb] its [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty is that every handful of weed that 's pulled out is likely to contain its fair share of aquatic creatures too . |
| 2 | Though there is much evidence to indicate its increasing popularity as a news medium , radio 's impact on the popular press has yet to be taken into account when examining this period . |
| 3 | Bishop Patrick Kelly wrote to the Foreign Secretary , Mr. Douglas Hurd , on 26 February , also urging the government to revive its former policy of actively promoting a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty . |
| 4 | Bishop Patrick Kelly wrote to the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , also urging the government to revive its former policy of actively promoting a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty . |
| 5 | A project to revive its Eurochemic plant for reprocessing nuclear fuel , at Mol in the northeast of the country , has just obtained the senate 's approval . |
| 6 | In addition , the LEA was beginning to establish its own network of evening institutes at secondary schools and J. K. Revans , the Assistant Director for Education , wished to learn how the proposals for the rural areas scheme were to operate in the county . |
| 7 | That acquisition could have scuppered the whole effort , given AT&T 's long-standing efforts to establish its own Tuxedo as the de-facto standard for Unix TP . |
| 8 | At one time the Institute had intended to establish its own college for training , and this was still essential . |
| 9 | It will take sometime for the Siporax to establish its dual occupancy of bacteria — that is , aerobic ( oxygen-loving ) in the outer layers of each sintered glass cylinder , and anaerobic ( oxygen-hating ) towards the core . |
| 10 | Peek is fairly confident of its long term prospects reckoning that its rivals have been weakened by recession and that its worldwide markets show significant growth potential : it will be seeking to consolidate its international position with alliances and joint ventures . |
| 11 | The statement also stressed the private sector 's role in attaining objectives and the need to consolidate its economic role by stimulating investment . |
| 12 | Attachment to the Empire and Commonwealth also persuaded the government to minimize its economic association with Europe — contrary to American intentions . |
| 13 | The fall of Kontrax is bad news for Mirror Group pensioners — Maxwell Communications Corp Plc owned 30% of the firm , for Compaq Computer Corp — which will now have to try to retrieve its first consignment of personal computers destined for the company from Hungarian customs authorities , and Disco himself , who opted to build his flat on top of the multi-million dollar Kontrax office building . |
| 14 | Thomson came from a generation of American composers which had to find its own way without benefit of university patronage . |
| 15 | At the same time , the conflict between reason and natural religion on the one hand , and faith and authoritative revelation on the other , opened up an area in which theology had to listen to both sides , to learn from both , and to attempt to find its own way without necessarily falling into either of the sharply polarised alternatives . |
| 16 | The restless indifferent force of human energy , responsible alike for beauty and ugliness , comedy and tragedy , saintliness and crime , had to find its own level inside the wire . |
| 17 | It meant the pound was set free to float to find its own value in world markets . |
| 18 | Each European member was bound to find its own point of balance between these two concerns . |
| 19 | Having massively increased in numbers and importance since 1939 , the armed services quickly came to fill the vacuum which existed in the political system as the United States strove to find its post-war role in world politics . |
| 20 | In actual fact ‘ it was to find its full interpretation in a new concept of matter no longer made of immutable atoms but by relatively impermanent associations of a few fundamental particles , themselves liable to change and transformation ’ . |
| 21 | But that night , when he is asleep , the creature enters his chamber and rips back his curtain — so ! — so that he wakes up with a start to find its dreadful gaze upon him , and its hand out-stretched for his throat ! |
| 22 | It is their commitment which has enabled the Trust to provide its unique contribution to the industry . |
| 23 | But since contradiction is the only source of social change in Althusser 's account of the ‘ complex structured whole ’ , it is important to bear its eclectic character in mind . |
| 24 | USL TO LAUNCH ITS DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT BEFORE OSF DME |
| 25 | The company plans to launch its first machine before the end of the year : it will run its Unix UXP/M implementation and can be used with Fortran . |
| 26 | Irrespective of whether an agreement or arrangement has been notified to the Commission or a complaint made , it is open to the Commission to launch its own investigation in relation to any agreement , practice or other activity which it may suspect infringes the competition rules . |
| 27 | If imbalance occurs , then the star may explode as a supernova , or implode to entrap its own radiation in a black hole . |
| 28 | A panel , assembled by the National Academy of Sciences , predicted last week that NASA wo n't be able to meet its ambitious schedule with its present fleet of four orbiters . |
| 29 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
| 30 | But it would also appear to know its own place in history in a way which an exercise of the furious imagination in art can sometimes seem to prevent . |