Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [verb] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports suggest that things are happening on Palm Island which may change its future . |
| 2 | It can be evaded by careful drafting such as the addition of " whatsoever " , or some synonym for it which may prevent its application . |
| 3 | 3.1 shall notify the of any enhancement or modification to the Licensed Software which may affect its operation/performance and/or cost . |
| 4 | According to the agency ( which may have its tongue firmly in its cheek ) the technique of their commercials is based on research by the Japanese video game firm Nintendo , and the ads are designed to have an almost hypnotic effect . |
| 5 | Since one never knows what plywood is affected it is absolutely necessary to sand all plywood which may find its way into an aeroplane . |
| 6 | While certain of the criticisms made then are now widely accepted even within the medical profession itself , no new consensus has yet emerged on the goals of health policy or the principles which should govern its organisation and distribution . |
| 7 | Once legislative proposals are sufficiently advanced to be put to Ministers for endorsement they will go before the Legislation Committee of the Cabinet which must give its approval before a place is found in the programme . |
| 8 | Use of his self-analysis inventory can help an existing team to diagnose the behavioural factors which might explain its failure or success . |
| 9 | Of course there would be some non-contentious business , perhaps quite a lot ; but even then , there must also be the reservation that nothing should be disclosed by the one group to the other which might prejudice its case when the business was contentious . |
| 10 | Since the review will set out the framework for defence policy for years to come , we will halt any defence cut , and any order for a new weapons system , which might prejudice its outcome . |
| 11 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |
| 12 | If I owe a client a duty to increase the value of his investment portfolio then if I fail to take action which could enhance its value I am positively harming my client 's interests . |
| 13 | More importantly , the weakness of such pure positivism is that it detaches law from any rationale which could explain its bindingness . |
| 14 | With a move to new premises which would double its audience capacity in a city not noted for enthusiastic theatre-going , the company needed to retain its existing audience while attracting new theatre go-ers to fill additional seats . |
| 15 | Earlier , prices for North Sea oil closed 19 cents higher at $18.15 a barrel in expectation that the delegates would overcome opposition by Kuwait to accepting OPEC quotas which would curb its build-up of production after the Gulf war . |
| 16 | We , too , should be grateful to Elizabeth ; not only did she have the foresight to bequeath a will for posterity to read , she also had the good taste — so rare in the family , alas — to be buried beneath a headstone which would retain its legibility over the years . |
| 17 | This simply reinforced the continuing determination by Germany to produce a conclusion in the Intergovernmental Conferences which would reinforce its preeminence in Europe , as previous chapters show . |
| 18 | A magnified detail drew attention to the skin ; although I could not understand the symbols appended , it looked as if the idea was that the outer skin should have less sensibility , by the withdrawal of nerves and capilliary blood-vessels from the outer layers of the epidermis — in fact , that a sort of hide should develop over the flesh which would render its owner fairly immune to extremes of temperature . |
| 19 | Wondering who had wrote it , Katherine turned the letter over in her hands , and then held it up to the light , looking for a watermark — anything which would indicate its origin . |
| 20 | But sources close to the Vienna talks said that the most difficult issue remained opposition by Kuwait to an OPEC quota which would limit its build up in production in the aftermath of the Gulf war . |
| 21 | in relation to section 268 said , at p. 177c ‘ the jurisdiction is a most useful one , and I certainly do not wish to say , and it is unnecessary to say , anything which would limit its scope . ’ |
| 22 | What appears to be one of the earliest sections of the manuscripts the section beginning ‘ So through the evening , through the violet air ’ ( dating from c.1914 ) contains an arresting image which would find its way into the final poem . |
| 23 | Some men with permanently limp members may suffer from an inability to secrete nitric oxide , and researchers are now trying to develop a treatment which would stimulate its production . |
| 24 | A statement on Cuba expressed " profound concern " over the country 's current situation and future and , reflecting a compromise , offered Latin America 's help in achieving " justice , freedom , democracy , respect for human rights and free and open economic development " if President Fidel Castro introduced political , economic and social changes which would allow its reacceptance into the OAS . |
| 25 | The UK remains exceptionally centralized in its fiscal affairs , with the Treasury and its ministers opposed to all changes which would release its grip ( Heald , 1983 , p. 203 ) . |
| 26 | There would be no buildings or other structures on the breakwater extension which would raise its height significantly above the existing breakwaters and thereby interfere with the radar station . |
| 27 | So there was a chance that fusion , which would derive its energy from deuterium , an isotope of hydrogen and a constituent of ordinary water , could come along and render fission redundant . |
| 28 | Additionally , there would be the potential for widening the scope of the ‘ shorter-paper ’ series by including more non-systematic papers , which would increase its appeal to the academic community . |
| 29 | Consider which will last longer — which will hold its value better — the answer is apparent the first time you step on board the Swan . |
| 30 | A NEW unit is to be set up by the Multiple Sclerosis Society which will devote its time to research into MS , a disease of the nervous system . |