Example sentences of "[noun] that [modal v] [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offering the richest purse on the Tour — with a $50,000 first prize — this is a mobile contest that can take its pick among the numerous world-class waves of the North Shore . |
| 2 | Secondly , the unique position of the sole practitioner in the network of legal services countrywide was often invoked to dampen enthusiasm for the imposition of restrictions on sole practice that might undermine its commercial viability . |
| 3 | Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson condemned the new rule that will get its first major exposure in this country . |
| 4 | So I drove to Portsmouth expecting a great camel of the ocean , a small luxury liner even , at least a boat that could hold its head up in the seafaring world . |
| 5 | Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize converted for the Intel 80486 under Unix System V.4 and Santa Cruz Unix : compilers have already been implemented for the IBM Corp Rios chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC . |
| 6 | Currently concentrating on Sparc-based hardware , Lucid has an agreement with NCR Corp that will see its compiler technology and Energize ported onto the Intel 486 under Unix SVR4 and SCO Unix : compilers have already been ported to the IBM RIOS chip , and Lucid has its eye on Hewlett-Packard 's PA-RISC . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Socratic culture , shaken from two directions , has lost its self-confidence : witness its present obsession with novelty , coupled with a fear of any change of direction that would contradict its own premises . |
| 8 | The attractive Gwendraeth Valley in Carmarthenshire , for instance , faces a cluster of proposals that could devastate its countryside and culture . |
| 9 | Coppola may not have provided the definitive film of the Vietnam War , but he succeeded in providing ‘ a film experience that would give its audience a sense of the horror , the madness , the sensuousness and the moral dilemma of Vietnam ’ . |
| 10 | THE BBC still has n't signed the contract with British Aerospace , Marconi and British Telecom that will seal its place aboard a satellite to broadcast TV signals and hi-fi sound direct into British homes from 1986 . |
| 11 | The federal government is proposing changes in the nuclear energy law that would remove its obligation to subsidize the development of nuclear power . |
| 12 | Jovellanos regarded rent control as useless and an evil in itself ; he considered land as a commodity that must find its natural price in the open market and held that it was ‘ vanity ’ to try to protect peasants from the effects of economic laws . |
| 13 | This in turn implied that the transition period was now viewed , not as a relatively short , chaotic time , but as an epoch that would develop its own laws of equilibrium . |
| 14 | Pregnancy is a wonderful time to have constitutional homoeopathic treatment because changes can happen much more quickly and simply than at other times resulting in a healthier more energetic body that will perform its functions with greater ease ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 15 | One of the four diesel generators that would power its computer controls in the event of a blackout was also out of service and the reactor was threatened with shut-down . |
| 16 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 17 | Its 113-TPS U6000/65 multiprocessor will be upgraded to an enhanced 100MHz 80486 chip in the fourth quarter that should triple its speed while memory is expanded from 256Mb to 512Mb . |
| 18 | Its 113-TPS U6000/65 multiprocessor will be upgraded to an enhanced 100MHz 80486 chip in the fourth quarter that should triple its speed while memory is expanded from 256Mb to 512Mb . |
| 19 | Unix System Laboratories Inc is working towards a schedule that will have its distributed system management scheme out before the Open Software Foundation 's rival Distributed Management Environment . |
| 20 | At this point in the exercise , the use of the instruments had revealed a number of factors in terms of the requirements of the IPS , and the problems that could affect its implementation and effectiveness . |
| 21 | Resolution 45/63 expressed concern at Israel 's continuing nuclear build-up and urged all states " not to co-operate with or give assistance to Israel that could enhance its nuclear weapons capability " . |
| 22 | There 's no magician 's mantle that can duplicate its diverse roles of waterproof , overcoat , sunshade , suit of armour and refrigerator ; sensitive to the touch of a feather , to temperature and to pain , and able to withstand the wear and tear of three score years and ten , all the while executing its own running repairs ! |
| 23 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 24 | It likes the deal in the medium term , since US West plans to finance the investment in large part with equity and to pursue other objectives that will enhance its credit quality to offset the increased business risk inherent in the investment , so that it is likely that ratings will be reaffirmed at their current levels , but in the short term , the business and financial risk will be increased . |
| 25 | The bondholding may help the firm get its foot in the door to win the business ; and once it is inside , the firm will be tempted to propose a restructuring of the company 's debt in ways that will benefit its own holdings . |
| 26 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 27 | It is therefore worthwhile seeing that , whatever the merits of this view , there is a need for a kind of pragmatic theory that can take its place beside syntax , semantics and phonology within an overall theory of grammar . |
| 28 | The unit is hiring extra staff that will boost its roll call from 130 to 150 all told : it already claims to have poached several engineers from Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp research labs out in Grenoble . |
| 29 | Every now and again the music would cut for a couple of seconds and there would be some faint , whispered phrase that would haunt its way down the wire , but she could n't make out what was said . |
| 30 | Perhaps the slow movement misses out on exploratory shadings , but this is still a performance that can hold its own beside the finest currently available — which is to say Mintz and Bronfman on DG . |