Example sentences of "[adv] its [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a society is stable , for instance , do all its ISAs fulfil their legitimating function , or do some work against the interests of the dominant classes of the society ? |
| 2 | Swallow was made redundant from AST in November , when the company closed down its East European operation , but he maintains that AST was not dissatisfied with its sales in the region , which he claims totalled over $5m in 1992 . |
| 3 | However , what the net result of the activity has been is unclear , as DEC says it is now closing down its VLIW-on-Alpha work — having failed to enlighten us as to the reasons why — but , at the instruction level , it is thought that Multiflow 's trace compilers were being pressed into service to boost the speed at which the RISC could execute programmes . |
| 4 | Earlier this year WEKA decided to close down its UK publishing operation and a number of titles , appealing to a broad spectrum of business and hobby readers , were put up for sale . |
| 5 | Paramount closed down its London office in 1968 , declaring that ‘ we now feel that by coordinating and controlling our production activities in Hollywood we can effectively control a programme that will continue to draw from a talent pool all around the world . ’ |
| 6 | Schroders , the merchant banking group , shut down its Schroder Discount subsidiary last year after two years , while Westpac Banking Corp also closed its invoice discounting operation last year . |
| 7 | Sparc chip set house Nimbus Technologies Inc last week was getting set to acknowledge what is already street gossip : that Cypress Semiconductor Corp , or rather its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , got Nimbus off the ground with an initial ‘ joint development ’ investment round about $1.5m . |
| 8 | and finally its Wimbledon next week … |
| 9 | It makes one wonder how much longer its OEM customer , technology partner and minority shareholder Hewlett-Packard Co is going to wait before buying the company and putting it out of its misery — or is it going to stand aside and let Sequoia 's other major partner , Samsung Electronics Co , Seoul , South Korea nip in and snap it up under its nose ? |
| 10 | So it handed over its Intel Corp i860 RISC-based VX and MVX visualisation accelerators over to Fremont , California-based Vicom Systems Inc ( UX No 357 ) , which began to market the things exclusively on Sun workstations from the beginning of this year . |
| 11 | Uxbridge , Middlesex-based , Kew Research Ltd has an informal agreement with Raidtec Inc 's Irish subsidiary Raidtec Ltd in Cork and not its US operation ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 12 | Thus its Fourier transform is just and F(t) is represented by . |
| 13 | British Airways warned that it will have to either close or sell off its UK regional business if its cabin crews continue to strike over pay cuts . |
| 14 | The Office of Fair Trading is taking action against the Aberdeen Solicitors Property Centre and possibly its Edinburgh counterpart . |
| 15 | Glass fittings , Marlin Lighting believes , add an extra quality to the light they emit ; hence its Limburg luminaires , all of which rely on glass craftsmanship . |
| 16 | Part of the gas turbine division , LTS carries out repair and overhaul of gas turbines and ancillary equipment from both its Aberdeen and Lincoln facilities , with overseas workshops located in Dubai , Abu Dhabi and Qatar . |
| 17 | HP had DCE running across both its HP-UX and MPE-based PA-RISC workstations and severs . |
| 18 | Network SouthEast , struggling to cope with its massive upsurge in business , proceeded with complete refurbishment of serviceable 1960s stock and started massive investment in new trains , notably its Networker . |
| 19 | According to IBM Deutschland , this step should ensure that the semiconductor firm is in a position to build up its OEM business . |
| 20 | IBM STEPS UP ITS OEM PITCH , OFFERS 9371 Co-PROCESSOR , WRITING CODE |
| 21 | Had IBM known back in the early 1980s what it knows now , it would have opened up its VM operating system , which also has its roots in development , but , coming from the button-down IBM world has many more security and management features than Unix started out with . |
| 22 | Sunnyvale , California-based modems specialist Telebit Corp has firmed up its January agreement to acquire Octocom Systems Inc for 5m new shares : Telebit currently has about 7.5m shares outstanding so Octocom holders would have 40% of the enlarged firm on completion in May . |
| 23 | However , CDS says it will pick up its GaAs threads again , once the technology has evolved sufficiently . |
| 24 | Amdahl claims 60 existing customers of UTS on 5995s , and says it has n't lost a single customer to downsizing — strange given that it is talking up its Sparc systems as rightsizing tools . |
| 25 | NetManage recently set up its UK distribution , appointing E92+ , Strood , Kent , and Specif(ix) of Matlock , Derbyshire . |
| 26 | Software engineering house LBMS has appointed Stephen Jermyn to head up its UK CASE sales operations : he joins from Ernst & Young where he was managing director . |
| 27 | Nijman Zeetank , a Dutch transport operation , has set up its UK headquarters in Skelmersdale in a new office and transport yard complex in Paddock Road . |
| 28 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 29 | Tilting further at Sun , HP says it has eight RISC Unix announcements to make before Sun wraps up its May 19th Viking launch ( we 're still waiting ) . |
| 30 | The executive council of the self-proclaimed " Serbian Autonomous Region of Krajina " , comprising municipalities in Croatia with a majority Serb population , followed up its March 16 decision to secede unilaterally from Croatia by deciding on April 1 to become part of Serbia . |