Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] on its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Channel 4 Relief greeted the Government decision , announced in the spring , that Channel 4 had escaped privatisation after a battle fought on its behalf by Mr Douglas Hurd against the more vigorous free-marketeers in the cabinet committee on broadcasting . |
| 2 | Each had a name typed on its cover : Mike Graham ; C.W. Whitlock ; and Sabrina Carver . |
| 3 | The bay , the promontories , the little white pencil of a lighthouse stuck on its rock . |
| 4 | One method of applying probabilistic information is to assign a value to the final element in a transition based on its predecessors . |
| 5 | The central allegation in what 's certain to be a bitterly contested case , is that B A has a monopoly based on its dominance of Heathrow , which it 's abusing in a bid to force Virgin out of the market for transatlantic travel . |
| 6 | Those supporting the continuation of an NHS based on its initial principles , funded centrally by tax finance , claim that any alternative system based on private health insurance would be bureaucratic , involving high administrative costs . |
| 7 | An object the size of the Sun would take 29 minutes to collapse to a singularity under its own gravity — at least that would be the time measured by an observer stationed on its surface before he too vanished into zero dimensions . |