Example sentences of "[vb pp] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it only recognized the PLO as a substantive interlocutor for the Palestinian people after world condemnation of its decision to bar Arafat from entry to the United States to address the United Nations in New York in December 1988 , and after he had addressed its General Assembly in Geneva instead . |
| 2 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 3 | The pack have also developed their loose play a long way and although I am not a great fan of the ‘ hand ruck ’ , in the games so far the pack has mixed its rucking and mauling well . |
| 4 | In the UK , ICL plc has previewed its Search Accelerator for the Informix relational database running on Unix SVR4 . |
| 5 | The condition of its wooden structure is a tribute to the sixteenth-century carpenters , and despite disintegration through fungal and insect activity owing to the lack of proper ventilation , the quality and perfect seasoning of the woods used has permitted its survival . |
| 6 | As part of the victorious sweep of competitive tendering in health authorities and local government , even the People 's Party has subcontracted its thinking . |
| 7 | It has won its way into CAMRA 's Heart of England Beer Festival finals . |
| 8 | The insult was particularly deep because the year before , Cagliari had won its first and only Italian championship . |
| 9 | The basic trouble is that the Palestinians ' historic espousal of ‘ moderation ’ has not won its indispensable and commensurate Israeli response . |
| 10 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 11 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 12 | British Telecommunications Plc has won its biggest network contract yet , a multi-million pound five-year deal to provide a communications network to the Eurocontrol European air traffic control co-ordination body . |
| 13 | After operating in the Czech and Slovak republics for the past 18 months , Leeds accounting software supplier Coda Ltd has not only won its first contract in Hungary , but also decided to open an office in Budapest , which began trading on April 1 . |
| 14 | The American ambassador in Bolivia , Charles Bowers , still believes in the wisdom of George Bush 's attack on the supply of cocaine , and insists that Bolivia has won its war on drugs . |
| 15 | Louis 's behaviour betrayed no interest in abstract justice : he was prepared to force modifications of the immunity in his own favour , but not in those of the count of Nevers or of the rebels ; moreover , his opposition to the commune was inconsistent with his behaviour at Rheims or Amiens , and with long-term royal policy ( by the end of the century , Vézelay had won its liberties ) . |
| 16 | The manufacturer and the defendant in the case , Merrell Dow ( now Marion Merrell Dow of Kansas City ) , has consistently won its case in some 200 lawsuits brought by parents who claim that Bendectin is a teratogen . |
| 17 | Cubism , however , had already won its most important battles . |
| 18 | In-form at the moment at the Tyneside track is Deneview Dipper , which has won its last two races , including an A1 event last Saturday night . |
| 19 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 20 | Scarborough 's Champers night club has won its fight to stay in business after magistrates over-ruled police objections to the licence being transferred to new owners , Pat Shannon and Ian Winton . |
| 21 | It has also just won its second national training award . |
| 22 | Initially , a sheriff held that the case could go ahead at Greenock Sheriff Court but Mr Anderson , 22 , of Nelson Road , Gourock , has won its transfer to the Court of Session . |
| 23 | VAUXHALL has won its biggest ever contract with the Ministry of Defence worth over £17 million at showroom prices for 1,947 diesel-engined Novas and Astras . |
| 24 | CCG has won its first major contract with BT Marine Ltd to provide catering and housekeeping services on board the 4,750 ton support ship the MV Discovery . |
| 25 | CCG HAS won its first offshore contract with BP Exploration , a multi-million pound contract to provide quality hotel standard service for personnel involved in the hook-up of two platforms in the North Sea 's Bruce Field . |
| 26 | Centuries of European upheaval have skirted its white stone and red tiled houses . |
| 27 | More recently , and equally significantly , the colony 's stock market had mended its ways . |
| 28 | Although it has mended its ways in recent years , the NRDC deserves some of the criticism that has come its way . |
| 29 | After much investigation , he discovered that it was n't a British resident at all , but a Russian bird that must somehow have been blown off course from its migratory route during the hurricane-force storms of the previous year — the storms that had immediately preceded its arrival in our village car park . |
| 30 | My head rang with that particular vibration of accidental pain , a tintinnabulating effect that always feels as if it should have preceded its cause — by way of a warning . |