Example sentences of "[to-vb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is designed to cosset its crew . |
| 2 | ‘ The Sakkratian intelligence was about to grant its death wish . |
| 3 | This time it held out longer , and gradually it learned the way to work its muscles and to develop their strength . |
| 4 | In order to allow that spiritual dimension to breathe , in order to allow it to work its healing , transformative way , we have no option but to operate in the world as it is , and to operate as gradualists . |
| 5 | For it hardly damages the contemporary legislature 's ability to work its will if judges decline to speculate about how to read cloudy rules from the dead past or what the intentions of people very different from contemporary legislators would have been if they had thought about a problem they actually ignored . |
| 6 | In other words , 18 months was not long enough for the ‘ marked ’ lead to work its way through the local food chain . |
| 7 | This has given time for the ‘ marked ’ isotope to work its way through the environment much more thoroughly than in Turin . |
| 8 | Under his benign regime , Thatcherism as a model of social transformation will continue to work its way through the system . |
| 9 | The cat looked up , and then it began to work its way upwards , its eyes fixed on its intended prey . |
| 10 | In the author 's time , there was always a queue in front of the TOPIC screen at Harvard , although many dealers did n't know how to work its controls . |
| 11 | MATURATION Now it is the turn of time to work its miracle — the new spirit is filled into oak casks and stored in cool , dark warehouses where the long process of maturation begins . |
| 12 | With sound , the garden can begin to work its magic on even the youngest ears . |
| 13 | But , as Daouda Api explains , the lucky charm of literacy often fails to work its magic . |
| 14 | Some have argued that this policy of ambiguity and delay reflected wishful thinking on his part , a misguided belief that he could somehow parlay his personal standing with all parties into a new consensus that would hold the communities together long enough for a French-financed modernization programme to work its magic . |
| 15 | Was the sinister influence of the Temple beginning to work its effect ? |
| 16 | Given its spreading tendencies , telekia is not a plant for small gardens unless steps can be taken to contain its roots . |
| 17 | Government began to conceive its duties as extending beyond those of maintaining law and order and of defending the realm . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Alum pot itself could not fail to be noticed by the first settlers in the district , its yawning gulf constituting an obvious danger to both man and beast ; in the course of time , a wall was built around it and trees planted to indicate its position . |
| 20 | On a calm day there will be no waves breaking over Bogha nan Ramfhear to indicate its presence . |
| 21 | The right way to indicate its nature is , therefore , to give instances where it is present , and to describe its interaction with other parts of the system to which it belongs , in particular when the interaction leads to predictions which can be checked ; simple as the system may be , we shall find that successive interactions can swiftly lead to structures of quite satisfying complexity ( see Appendix B ) . |
| 22 | A Nigerian delegation met the " London Club " of commercial bank creditors on March 19-20 , 1990 , to indicate its intention to seek new debt rescheduling arrangements . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , this particular Conservative administration did offer social policies which were designed both to indicate its commitment to dealing with social problems and to undermine the challenge of Labour . |
| 24 | There was no platform , not a building to indicate its whereabouts , nothing but a small board nailed to a decapitated tree trunk with the name inscribed thereon in white letters upon a black background . |
| 25 | All you need to do is mark the block that contains the numbers using Ctrl-K-B to indicate the start of the selection and Ctrl-K-K to indicate its end . |
| 26 | The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We define a new function from A to C which we denote by unc to indicate its dependence on f and g by : for all a ε A , unc the image of af under g . |
| 29 | THE GOVERNMENT will have to redouble its efforts to put British politicians and civil servants ‘ at the heart of Europe ’ after a new poll yesterday showed that they are the least accomplished linguists in the EC . |
| 30 | The Pharmacopoeia is now aiming , quite literally , to redouble its efforts by setting itself a target of 1500 monographs , covering the main existing pharmaceutical substances . |