Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Similarly , the board of the selling company must consider its responsibilities to the company , its shareholders , its employees and , where insolvency is a possibility , its creditors . |
| 3 | First , the club could not afford large-scale spending on players : the payment of £200 for Lloyd Davies in 1907 strained its resources to the limit . |
| 4 | In other words , 18 months was not long enough for the ‘ marked ’ lead to work its way through the local food chain . |
| 5 | This has given time for the ‘ marked ’ isotope to work its way through the environment much more thoroughly than in Turin . |
| 6 | Under his benign regime , Thatcherism as a model of social transformation will continue to work its way through the system . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And , of course , unless an applicant with standing applies in time for certiorari and the court exercises its discretion in the applicant 's favour , the decision , though wrong , will remain valid for ever . |
| 9 | It is through the London money market that the Bank of England exercises its control of the economy . |
| 10 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
| 11 | The essence of the balance sheet is that the sum of the fixed and current assets shall equal the capital employed , thus explaining its use in the company . |
| 12 | The essence of the balance sheet is that the sum of the fixed and current assets shall equal the capital employed , thus explaining its use in the company . |
| 13 | He also stated that his government would confine its discussions with the federal government to matters of immigration , communications and labour , and would maintain bilateral relations with individual provinces on issues of mutual concern . |
| 14 | Chao 's comment above about Chinese verbs having no voice refers to the fact that the form of the verb in Chinese does not change to indicate its relationship with the subject of the clause . |
| 15 | The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement . |
| 16 | In 1968 the Commission responded to requests from industry to indicate its view of the application of the competition rules to cooperation between enterprises by issuing a formal Notice . |
| 17 | Only the Kandyan Kingdom maintained its independence in the interior . |
| 18 | The Iranian government maintained its neutrality on the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37696 ] , reacting cautiously to news of the allied attack on Iraq on Jan. 16 . |
| 19 | In December 1790 the Quaker committee , which maintained its existence alongside the London body , prompted Friends in the country to lobby their local MPs , particularly those elected for the first time in 1790 . |
| 20 | But the Authority also maintained its faith in the existing gas-cooled design . |
| 21 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 22 | The government 's manifesto commitment was to increase benefit in line with prices but this does not guarantee its future after the next election , and presumably any proposals on child benefit would have a long lead-in time . |
| 23 | The SDLP retained its hold in the Northlands area where it returned five out of the seven seats available . |
| 24 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 25 | In elections to the 183-seat Nationalrat ( lower house of parliament ) on Oct. 7 the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) retained its position as the largest single party . |
| 26 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 27 | ASLEF started life as a breakaway from the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in the 1880s and it retained its autonomy during the process of amalgamations that led to the formation of the NUR . |
| 28 | It was an artistic and cultural centre as well as a commercial one and retained its importance until the rise of Moscow in the fifteenth century . |
| 29 | Equally to the hardliners ' point , Mr Gorbachev 's Soviet Union is a discouraging example of what happens when the party loosens its control of the economy and the people . |
| 30 | For He did swim across the river : This involves the virtual person of the infinitive occupying the same position(s) in time as the actual person which specifies its rank in the auxiliary , and so to is not necessary . |