Example sentences of "its [noun sg] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is no wonder that the CEGB has responded by publishing an unprecedentedly large volume of material in support of its case for building a PWR at Sizewell . |
| 2 | A major feature of the Committee " s ( and indeed the Board of Education " s ) automatic correlation of " English " with " Englishness " is its provision for dealing with certain " marginal " cultures . |
| 3 | In addition , the Council called for the financial incentives available to franchised firms to be improved before it would confirm its support for franchising . |
| 4 | Yet this would bump up against the western world 's self-serving policy of subsidised farming , which explains a lot of its enthusiasm for shipping grain to Africa . |
| 5 | He 's also concerned about its enthusiasm for making children repeat a year , if necessary . |
| 6 | Indignation grew as the stench became increasingly nauseating and each local body in turn denied its liability for disposing of several tons of putrefying whalemeat . |
| 7 | That is the case with P&O Scottish Ferries : its grant for providing services to and from Shetland and Orkney has just been been raised by £1.9m , to £8.6m . |
| 8 | This is a powerful department , partly because of its responsibility for ensuring the financial health of the company but also because it controls the language and format in which the other functions draw up their expenditure plans and report progress against them . |
| 9 | Local government , with its responsibility for sweeping the streets and emptying dustbins , had always essentially been a humdrum business . |
| 10 | A new approach to assistance with housing costs , for example , may have to be considered both by DHSS , with concern for social security policy , and DOE , with its responsibility for housing policy . |
| 11 | As called for by Mitterrand in January 1989 [ see p. 36404 ] , the government in the following month presented its programme for modernizing the criminal code which dated from the Napoleonic era . |
| 12 | Edward Gillespie askes have you ever seen so many happy faces … its good for racing … and hopefully good for Cheltenham |
| 13 | The size of the " yes " vote surprised both the National Party ( NP ) government , which was seeking a renewal of its mandate for negotiating a political settlement with anti-apartheid organizations , and the Conservative Party ( CP ) which led the " no " campaign . |
| 14 | The system 's 10K–450K temperature range attests to its flexibility for cooling samples in a wide range of applications . |
| 15 | The high esteem in which gold has been held in most parts of the world , the relative ease with which it can be wrought and not least its capacity for combining with other desirable things have led to its being favoured above all others for jewellery , objects of parade and a variety of insignia of status . |
| 16 | As with the other areas discussed above , style has achieved a certain autonomy in contemporary industrial society , going beyond its capacity for ordering to become itself the focus of concern . |
| 17 | Elitism will survive because of its suggestiveness , its plausibility and its capacity for generating explanatory insights ; whether it will be able to provide exhaustive convincing theories is another matter . |
| 18 | The ROK armed forces were to be developed so as to be capable of handling internal dissent but the issue as to its capacity for reacting effectively to North Korea was side-stepped . |
| 19 | If this assertion is correct , then it would not matter if the standing requirement was abolished entirely , provided some other mechanism was put in its place for weeding out hopeless and crank cases . |
| 20 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |
| 21 | Firstly , the development of the Anglo-American civil aviation relationship in the troubled context of the 1980s and early 1990s will be explored and some assessment of its importance for determining the character of the world 's overall aviation system will be given . |
| 22 | It was May 's enthusiasm for pottery , which he communicated by publication , and Bushe-Fox 's perception of its importance for dating deposits that helped towards the artefact-orientated reports so common in that first half of this century . |
| 23 | For example , the vendor may have used separate management companies within its group for owning properties , employing staff and maintaining insurance . |
| 24 | Max Klein , its incumbent for going on ten years , revelled in those qualities . |
| 25 | The partial success of Cuba 's policy is confirmed by the fact that as late as January 1961 Washington was aware that its scope for attacking the Castro regime through the OAS was still limited , and a majority for sanctions not yet assured . |
| 26 | The caterpillar of a butterfly called Thisbe irenea has a sound-producing organ in its head for summoning ants , and a pair of telescopic spouts near its rear end which exude seductive nectar . |
| 27 | For , on the one hand , they dispensed valuable resources : opportunities for lamb-barrel politics were an incentive to people to participate in popular democracy , to stand for election to a committee , even if they doubted its suitability for managing a complex hierarchical organization . |
| 28 | Their mission is to pursue the TARDIS through time and space and to exterminate its crew for daring to interfere in Dalek plans . |
| 29 | South Korea 's " northward diplomacy " , which had come into being during late 1988 as part of its strategy for achieving a closer relationship with North Korea , was pursued assiduously during 1989 and with notable success towards the end of that year [ see also pp. 37041 ; 37089 ] . |
| 30 | Irvine , California-based AST Research Inc warns that it expects third quarter after-tax margins to be in the range of 3% to 4% as it follows pricing strategies intended to lead to increased unit sales while it reduces operating expenses as a percentage of sales — its strategy for pricing and market share expansion is expected to hurt its near-term earnings it said , noting that the new Premmia line , launched in the UK yesterday , is priced 10% to 20% below rival models ; it also said it was evaluating its pricing , especially in Europe . |