Example sentences of "its [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried and failed , as always , to synchronise its chimes with the hour . |
| 2 | Therefore the simple conflict between accumulation and unproductive consumption which appears at the micro level may be transformed into its opposite at the macro level . |
| 3 | Consequently , their bedroom with its mattress on the floor and a black and white duvet looks spacious , verging on empty , but this is the way the Woolleys like to live now . |
| 4 | ‘ Various people have given me the names of its chauffeurs over the years — , and , but I would be glad of any further information anyone may have of this wonderful carriage ’ he said . |
| 5 | Its application does put its exponents in the firing line of critical appraisal . |
| 6 | One main street , set roughly at right angles , ran north and south from it ; its northern arm , possibly Flavian in date , aimed at the southern end of the modern High Street where the south gate of the fortified centre was probably later established ; a slight shift towards the west in its alignment in the late second century may have coincided with the construction of the first defences . |
| 7 | The cases equally indicate the boundary beyond which the church was seen as abusing its definitions of the sacred . |
| 8 | And the Broadcasting Standards Council began its monitoring of the small screen with a warning from its chairman , Lord Rees-Mogg , that television producers should not impose their own values if they offended the viewing public . |
| 9 | The firm has been at pains to correct this recently , however , and points to a ban of all flags in the workplace ( Union Jacks were seen to be intimidatory ) and its monitoring of the composition of the workforce . |
| 10 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 11 | Thursday : Liffe allowed to sell its contracts in the United States from today . |
| 12 | In order to deal with increased turnover , LIFFE introduced a computerised trade registration system for all its contracts in the late 1980s . |
| 13 | In the absence of a full Test tour , public attention was focused on the World Cup but the Red Stripe Cup and the England A team tour , the first of its kind to the Caribbean , offered chances to those aspiring to replace the greats who have now gone into retirement . |
| 14 | Wroughton airfield near Swindon was the busiest in the world this weekend , as more than fifteen hundred aircraft flew in for the largest rally of its kind outside the United States . |
| 15 | The weir will be the second of its kind on the river and was designed by the National Rivers Authority to keep gravel spawning beds clear of silt . |
| 16 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
| 17 | It 's the second incident of its kind on the same stretch of motorway , in two days . |
| 18 | The 22-bedroomed clinic will be the only one of its kind on the island , and the only centre outside of London where such treatment is available . |
| 19 | It 's the second incident of its kind at the hospital this year . |
| 20 | The treaty , the first of its kind between the Soviet Union and one of its former East European allies in the Warsaw Pact , committed the two sides to non-aggression and to consultation and co-operation over security matters . |
| 21 | UAE troops joined around 1,000 troops from France 's Rapid Action Force ( FAR ) , navy and air force in a joint exercise on Feb. 22-27 ; codenamed " Little Fox " , it was the first of its kind between the two countries . |
| 22 | In the spring of 1991 the reconciliation was sealed when the Chinese party leader Jiang Zemin visited Moscow , the first visit of its kind since the days of Mao Zedong . |
| 23 | This was the first major incident of its kind since the beginning of the November revolution . |
| 24 | In the first case of its kind since the Soviet Union 's accession to Interpol in 1990 , the Soviet authorities on March 10 allowed the extradition of a fugitive wanted in the United States in connection with a US$10,000,000 medical insurance fraud . |
| 25 | The shelling was described as the " first of its kind since the 1971 war " . |
| 26 | The visit , by an Israeli diplomat serving in Thailand , was the first of its kind since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 . |
| 27 | The restaurant was like many of its kind throughout the Soviet Union , although perhaps better cared for than most . |
| 28 | Our programme has been extended to parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland making it the largest of its kind in the UK . |
| 29 | This committee set about establishing a small residential home for old people , the second of its kind in the country , and , by July 1942 , thanks largely to her drive , West Town House in Bristol was opened . |
| 30 | A source close to Mr Saatchi confirmed yesterday that between 70 and 100 works from the collection — the largest of its kind in the world — had been disposed of through the New York art dealer Larry Gagosian for up to $1m per painting . |