Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | To imply that the Kha-Khan 's exchequer was likely to be burdened beyond its ability to support the embassy was nonsense , as they both knew . |
| 2 | It wants a unitary authority and it wants it to be based upon its present framework . |
| 3 | A periodical reunion of the deaf of Great Britain and Ireland should always occur , and there is everything to be said in its favour . |
| 4 | At the moment their relationship was a weekend one , but both of them occasionally thought that the idea of marriage still had something to be said in its favour . |
| 5 | I believe therefore that our music is to be recognized by its melodies , and that it is highly important that they be distinctive , with clear-cut , decisive shapes . |
| 6 | A BUGATTI motor boat found resting in mud in France is to be flown to its wealthy owner in California next month , 10 years after work began on restoring it at a Thames boatyard . |
| 7 | It was now also common knowledge that the aircraft , once the Wasp was within range , were to be flown from its decks to the besieged island of Malta . |
| 8 | It was not long before we decided that the question had to be turned on its head . |
| 9 | The matrix would have to be turned on its side . |
| 10 | In the case of individual PCs and printers , each case will have to be treated on its merits . |
| 11 | When it was time for the foal to be separated from its mother , the friends took the foal but no longer visited Shamrock . |
| 12 | It tends to be grown for its foliage . |
| 13 | It was arrogant and vindictive too , and quite clear enough to be heard above its musical accompaniment . |
| 14 | In the first place Washington desired sterling to be maintained at its current parity of $2.80 . |
| 15 | It has not taken IBM Corp long to admit informally that its target of 25,000 job cuts this year is on the low side , and the company now says that it expects at least 6,000 jobs to be cut at its three main operations in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York , where previously it had forecast between 3,000 and 3,500 : IBM told Reuters that the job cuts , which will likely include layoffs , will come from the company 's mainframe business in Poughkeepsie and Kingston , where at least 2,000 jobs will be cut , up from the company 's previous expectations of between 600 to 800 , and it also sees bigger staff cuts at the East Fishkill chip facility , which now expects to lose about 4,000 workers , up from about 3,000 — IBM is phasing out semiconductor operations in East Fishkill , moving some of the work to Burlington , Vermont , some to Essonnes , France ; advanced semiconductor research and packaging remains in East Fishkill ; the company says that despite the increased cuts , it believes that the charges it took in the fourth quarter will still be sufficient . |
| 16 | Then the Administration wants the more closely watched federal funds rate that banks charge each other for overnight reserve borrowings to be cut from its long-standing 4 per cent to 3.5 per cent . |
| 17 | G.L.Gabriel is the pseudonym of the daughter of a respected painter who prefers her work to be presented on its own merits rather than under an established name . |
| 18 | He has many opportunities to personify the government or , strictly speaking , to be presented as its spokesman . |
| 19 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 20 | Capitalism is thus to be opposed for its exploitative practices , rather than its non-utopian form . |
| 21 | It was decided that state sickness benefit was to be taxed by its abolition ! |
| 22 | There are some observers — myself included — who feel that the July meeting at Down Royal has now gained in importance to such an extent that it deserves to be kept on its own and I understand that the Killarney executive are not totally against a move to an earlier date . |
| 23 | The PSP abolished its central committee and replaced it by an assembly of guides , to be led by its secretary-general , Lt.-Col. Sharif Fayyad . |
| 24 | The first drug to be recognised for its antimalarial effects was quinine , which found its way into the British Pharmacopaea as early as 1677 . |
| 25 | However , his view that each thing has an essence and that all its active behaviour is to be explained by its inbuilt conatus or striving to preserve its own essence has a strong Aristotelian flavour . |
| 26 | What he is mainly denying when he denies that there are final causes in nature is that the existence of each individual sort of thing is to be explained by its serving some cause beyond it , in particular some kind of human interest . |
| 27 | Not only do accurate 3-D computer models allow information on cleaning , damage and repair to be superimposed as a record of the state of conservation of a work of art , they also allow tailor-made packing cases to be constructed for its transportation . |
| 28 | Each case has to be examined on its merits . |
| 29 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 30 | Furthermore , to pursue this metaphor , having selected a particular spiritual decor and furnishings , those who live in it come to be influenced by its stylistic and symbolic properties as well as its more obvious functional or utilitarian appropriateness . |