Example sentences of "its [noun sg] of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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1 | An as-yet-unproven system called J-STARS , getting its baptism of fire in the Gulf , illustrates the point . |
2 | First came the disappointing news that House of Fraser is to close its branch of Binns in the town . |
3 | On April 7 Hashimoto announced that the Japanese government wished in the future to increase its quota of capital in the IDB . |
4 | And , as his administration staggered through its winter of discontent in the first two months of 1979 , Callaghan 's famed skills as a crisis-manager seemed to desert him . |
5 | CASE 1 — a table is to be restored from a Working-Set area to its place of origin in the Main Database archive |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Quebec also received recognition of its status as a " distinct society " , together with a guarantee that its share of seats in the federal House of Commons would not fall below 25 per cent . |
8 | Israel continued to reject requests from the United States to freeze its policy of settlement in the occupied territories [ see pp. 38309-10 ] . |
9 | Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work . |
10 | Mercifully , he was wrong , but despite everything that is being done to protect this greatest of predators , it is very doubtful if its lease of life in the wild can be extended very much longer . |
11 | In the case of steerable kites , skill of the operator is paramount ; but anything that could make the kite fly to a tighter turning radius , open its radius of action in the ‘ wind window ’ or launch and land more easily was a critical element . |
12 | A breakdown of the latest figures shows that the consumer electronics division made an operating loss of $31.1m , similar to its shortfall of $33.4m in the same period last year . |
13 | Although it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s , cruising had begun in about 1844 when P & O's cruise through the Mediterranean was described by the writer William Makepeace Thackeray , and Mark Twain wrote about a cruise of 1868 from New York to the Mediterranean in his book Innocents Abroad . |
14 | The Xedos is due to be unveiled at this week 's Frankfurt Motor Show , and no details have been given yet about price or its date of arrival in the UK . |
15 | HP said some of the factors that raised its cost of sales in the fourth quarter are not new and are likely to continue . |
16 | In response to his appeal to other countries to ignore the move , the governments of Australia and New Zealand announced that they would continue to recognise Papua New Guinea 's territorial integrity , whilst the Indonesian government stated on May 19 that it would abide by its principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of independent states . |
17 | However , problems stemming from its lack of use in the preceding year became apparent later . |
18 | The Communist International failed to turn any political situation to its advantage during the years 1917 to 1935 , largely because of the rigidity of its model and its lack of interest in the actual conditions of Latin America . |
19 | This procedure will transfer text from the Working-Set to its Table of Origin in the Main Text Archive and produce a magnetic tape security of the changed table . |
20 | This procedure will transfer text from the Working-Set to its Table of Origin in the Main Text Archive and produce a magnetic tape security of the changed table . |
21 | Israel continued its bombardment of villages in the south on Nov. 12 and Israeli aircraft staged mock attacks over the area . |