Example sentences of "of its [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it was rejected , however , under the terms of the country 's constitution approval by the lower house was sufficient for it to become law within 30 days regardless of its fate in the upper chamber . |
| 2 | As I did , I knocked a pencil out of its holder on the control desk . |
| 3 | A company 's ability to raise the price of its goods above the competitive level affects the demand for its products ( and through the effect on relative prices , the pattern of demand throughout the economy ) . |
| 4 | He then goes on to declare that ‘ as the pain and sickness caused by manna are confessedly nothing but the effects of its operation on the stomach ’ , so sweetness and whiteness are ‘ but the effects of the operations of manna by the motion , size , and figure of its particles on the eyes and palate ’ . |
| 5 | Lindsay Walton 's F4U-7 Corsair celebrates its 40th anniversary and the 10th year of its operation in the UK . |
| 6 | Kvaerner Govan is now a small and efficient satellite of its parent across the North Sea , concentrating on specialist chemical , refrigerated and gas tankers , which do not generate so much competition from Korean and Japanese yards . |
| 7 | At the moment , the establishment of a branch tends to require less documentation , formality and cost , while a subsidiary has the advantage of being a separate legal personality , with the result that disclosure requirements may not apply to the parent , and the subsidiary 's debts will not necessarily become obligations of its parent in the event of insolvency . |
| 8 | We conclude that the high rate of sudden infant death syndrome among Maori infants has much of its foundation in the high prevalence in the Maori population of the major risk factors , and other risk factors , not related to ethnicity , probably explain remaining differences between Maori and non-Maori children . |
| 9 | Rechem also agreed to drop its request for a judicial review into Torfaen 's monitoring of contamination supposedly caused by the firm , and of its publication of the results . |
| 10 | Although he was ready to accept the shortcomings of the Soviet state in its current phase of historical development — " it is true that Soviet society is harsh and that many of its citizens are not philanthropists " — the harshness of Soviet society , however , can in no sense invalidate in Nizan 's eyes the justice of its struggle against the remaining vestiges of the capitalist mentality in the consciousness of the Soviet people . |
| 11 | Such a corporation , it was held , should have the same power to maintain an action for a libel by which its property is injured as the law allowed to a corporation at common law , and the power to sue for libel or slander for the protection of its reputation in the carrying on of its business . |
| 12 | Do n't be ashamed of its offence to the proud hearts and minds of self-sufficient men and women . |
| 13 | European Leisure , which also makes amusement machines and has property interests , plans to sell off some of its businesses in the UK and Europe to meet debts . |
| 14 | The UDF continued to insist that the only solution to Bulgaria 's present crisis was a UDF-led coalition , and to argue that because of its communist past the BSP lacked the moral credibility to govern . |
| 15 | Unisys has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 16 | To cover the glitch Intel Corp has created with Pentium — see front page — Unisys Corp has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 17 | In the end a meaningless compromise was made , and the Conference called on all good men to come together to resist socialism , but also insisted that the Unionist party should not sacrifice any of its independence in the process . |
| 18 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 19 | Given that such an employee would face dismissal if that were proven , a company should face no less than severe curtailment of its operations across the North sea . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was not , however , willing to discuss its assessment of the impact of its operations on the environment and on the local people . |
| 22 | An experience like mine makes all the more difference because of its contrast with the past " . |
| 23 | Because of its concerns about the consultants ' figures , convention officials have been pressing for an urgent meeting of a joint Scottish Office-COSLA working party on finance since early February but that has not taken place . |
| 24 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 25 | But provided there are not many plants of this species in the tank , then there is very little danger of its effects on the fish . |
| 26 | any other information necessary for an understanding of the substance of the transaction and of its effects on the financial statements . |
| 27 | One of the problems with these job losses is that they were almost entirely unplanned : anyone who wanted to take severance or early retirement was allowed to do so irrespective of its effects on the department concerned and on the shape of the university . |
| 28 | The same may be true of its addition to the 1018 entry that the meeting between Danes and English at Oxford agreed to observe Edgar 's law , which was probably taken from chapter 13 of the Letter of 1019 – 20 , now preserved only in a York manuscript , although there may have been a Worcester copy too . |
| 29 | The outstanding example was the Habsburg monarchy , forever subordinating all the practical and sentimental realities of its components to the interests of the dynasty . |
| 30 | The Financial Times said the acquisition represent a significant step towards the Royal Bank 's goal of generating at least 10 per cent of its earnings from the US . |