Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter company has an appalling record for its treatment of workers in South Africa and its behaviour in Namibia is little better . |
| 2 | Bradford was especially notable for its provision of clinics for infant and maternal health care and the provision of free milk for babies . |
| 3 | Savernake is famed for its lichens and the Forestry Commission is noted for its love of lichens on old trees . |
| 4 | Its design drew very mixed responses , the styling being criticised for its hotchpotch of elements from the MX-5 ( taillights ) to the current Toyota Celica ( rear hatch ) and even Nissan 's 100NX ( nose and headlights ) . |
| 5 | Digital Equipment Corp has signed Lechmere Inc as the first independent direct retailer for its line of printers for MS-DOS and the Mac . |
| 6 | In the past , questions have been raised about the publication of financial reports and the accountability of the UKCC for its use of funds to those who supply them . |
| 7 | The Accounting Standards Board recently published two further chapters of its Statement of Principles in discussion draft form ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 14 ) . |
| 8 | A former Consett steelworker , Stafford was born in nearby Chopwell known as Little Moscow because of its proliferation of streets like Engels , Marx and Lenin Terraces . |
| 9 | With its range of awards including the new Assessors Award , the Wordpower and Numberpower certificates in communication and numeracy skills and the Vocational Access Certificate , LCCIEB has certainly taken up the challenge to provide wider access to qualifications . |
| 10 | Iago can take a stand with every appearance of confidence : Yet from that firm-sounding position he lapses into uncertainty — ‘ I speak not yet of proof ’ ( ironically true ! ) — but an uncertainty that suggests far more than it states , with its rash of words for perception and deception ( ‘ look ’ , ‘ observe ’ , ‘ wear your eye thus ’ , ‘ not … secure ’ , ‘ abused ’ , ‘ look ’ , ‘ know ’ , ‘ see … pranks ’ , ‘ show ’ , ‘ conscience ’ , ‘ keep't unknown ’ ) . |
| 11 | From 1981 onwards , the University Grants Committee attempted to introduce a greater degree of selectivity into its allocation of funds to the universities . |
| 12 | Whether one interpreted this from the perspective of a 16th century Milton or that of a 20th century anarchist , the outcome was still the same in its condemnation of restrictions on the free expression and dissemination of opinions . |
| 13 | Pop 's power , its danger and its crime , consist in its over-stimulation of desires for pleasure and for self-aggrandizement : desires constructed by capitalism . |
| 14 | The picture painted by the Commission 's report on inner London is as gruesome as any ever presented ( and is itself revealing of common prejudices in its choice of indicators of deprivation ) : |
| 15 | It allows specification of a range of treatment measures and the commission , in its monitoring of patients on leave of absence , tries to ensure in each case that an appropriate range of services is provided . |
| 16 | NEW YORK — A British effort to bring the international drug trade before the UN Security Council has been balked by Brazil and Algeria , who objected to Britain 's plan to include the drug trade in its definition of threats to international peace and security . |
| 17 | Roman Catholicism preserves clear remnants of the medieval canonical teaching in its exclusion of women from the sanctuary as altar servers , or even as participants in the rite of footwashing . |
| 18 | Such had happened in Scotland and Ireland in its employment of folk-themes for late 19th century ‘ classical music ’ . |
| 19 | The real originality of the structuralist application of Saussure to literary studies is not in the analysis of particular works , but in its elaboration of poetics as a general science of literature . |
| 20 | In its study of Trends in public library selection policies , Capital Planning Information quoted from two selection policy documents as follows : |
| 21 | The ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) dropped more than 80 per cent of its current National Assembly deputies from its list of candidates for the June 27 general election , only around 70 of the 290 FLN deputies having been chosen to stand . |
| 22 | While never publicly stated , it was understood that China 's abstention during the vote on UNSCR 678 ( Yemen and Cuba voted no ) won it a reprieve from the enforcement of US sanctions linked to its slaughter of students in Tiananmen Square in 1989 . |
| 23 | The André Emmerich Gallery is celebrating the recent addition of Karel Appel to its list of artists with an exhibition of recent pictures in all the mediums that he explores . |
| 24 | To the Annual Conference of the union in September 1915 he reported that " the Government had commandeered the Camp " , and that , when they eventually handed it back , reinstated as agricultural land , which he doubted that they ever would , compensation and rent paid or payable would ensure that " the maintenance of aliens at Eastcote would have cost the Union not a single farthing " and provide a useful start to its programme of Homes for Seamen . |
| 25 | Birmingham 's popularity with meeting planners owes much to its ease of accesses from all parts of the UK and Europe . |
| 26 | The bureau has been involved in several local residents ' campaigns for improved amenities and has also produced a report on racism in North Tyneside , aimed at persuading the local authority to look at its range of services within the borough . |
| 27 | In fact the railway was quite prosperous in the early years of this century , crippled only by its burden of debts from the past . |
| 28 | Such slow-moving particles would not be detected in conventional particle-physics experiments , which register a particle 's passage by its ionisation of atoms in the detecting medium . |
| 29 | The portrait as genre here serves its traditional function in a postmodern world of fragmentation and exerts control on the narratives of subjectivity ( sitter/artist/spectator ) by its articulation of notions of continuity within syntactical disruption . |
| 30 | It is with a sense of shock and disbelief that I studied the details that the Scottish Arts Council has released concerning its distribution of funds for 1993/94 ( reported , 16 February ) . |