Example sentences of "to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mrs Geary was integral to its service . |
| 2 | His efforts to recover them have been hampered by the fact that Britain is not a subscriber to the 1970 UNESCO convention for the return of cultural property to its country of origin . |
| 3 | In a letter written to Italy 's new Ministro dei Beni Culturali , Alberto Ronchey , in August , reference is made to the United Nations resolution for the return of cultural property to its country of origin . |
| 4 | This evening she was wearing a little suit from a woman called Chanel , something that she had drabbled and subdued into an obscurity proper to its country background . |
| 5 | Hydro-electric power , though renewable , has a finite limit to its development potential unlike some of the other renewables and will never contribute a great deal more to world energy supply than it does at present . |
| 6 | When the idea of a school-industry partnership was first mooted a fundamental question required answering before time and resource could be committed to its development . |
| 7 | Since his administration there had to function without his presence , it was crucial to its development that competent seneschals should be appointed to represent him . |
| 8 | Some historians regard the English Civil War of the seventeenth century as a crucial transition period where an emerging bourgeoisie removed old political barriers to its development — it was a ‘ bourgeois revolution ’ . |
| 9 | But the contribution that the intelligentsia made to its development represented their supreme service to the revolution . |
| 10 | They have mastered some corpus of knowledge , however small , and have probably made some contribution of their own to its development . |
| 11 | The global situation is that accidents such as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have initiated a move away from nuclear power but many countries still remain fully committed to its development , albeit with greater concern for safety standards and procedures at nuclear reactors . |
| 12 | Even so , this is still largely an unmapped terrain , and the research strategy adopted here is one which aims to clarify some of the issues involved in inter-agency work and to identify areas of work in which it might be usefully advanced together with the limits and obstacles to its development . |
| 13 | More generally , it illustrates how everything you do — even your choice of a title — is a part of your thinking about your essay , and contributes to its development . |
| 14 | Hood ( 1991 ) argues that two streams of ideas had contributed to its development . |
| 15 | Erm with regard to a site specific policy , if it 's additional , and there 's no clear need for it it 's not catered for within the allocation which is er provided for within the structure plan , then we could be left with a major site with a clear commitment to its development or its suitability for development and and no end user . |
| 16 | Although in Britain this big yellow-red is largely confined to its home region , it has spread abroad , like the Ruby of northern Devon , and seems to be much better appreciated overseas ; it has become established in North America , Australia and New Zealand , South America , and perhaps above all in South Africa , whither it was first exported in 1897 . |
| 17 | However , there are 20 pieces ( eight corners and 12 edges ) to restore and a piece may be in many different positions with respect to its home position , so such a method will involve solving many subproblems ( 239 to be exact ) and this is not a very human strategy , though it is perhaps the easiest for a computer . |
| 18 | This implies that , while the services which are undertaking may provide are subject to its home country rules ( often referred to as ‘ home country financial technique ’ ) , the question of how such services should be carried out ( conduct of business rules ) will be subject to the host country rules . |
| 19 | The feng-huang 's voice was also beautiful , and its song consisted of five perfect notes which echoed in the mountains as the bird soared the skies before returning to its home in the clouds with the gods . |
| 20 | On return to its home port in Tripoli , the ship is given a huge welcome . |
| 21 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 22 | The cat had finished with its night hunt , and came padding silently back to its home territory . |
| 23 | Work also continues on the replica 2-2-2 ‘ Bloomer ’ , Pannier tank 7752 , presently on loan to the South Devon Railway at Buckfastleigh will shortly return to its home base when some routine work will be carried out . |
| 24 | The operation returns 46521 to its home base , the Severn Valley Railway after working the Network SouthEast Henley Branch shuttles early in November . |
| 25 | Remote procedure call technology developer Netwise Inc is retreating back to its home base in Boulder , Colorado . |
| 26 | Remote procedure call technology firm , Netwise Inc is retreating to its home base in Boulder , Colorado . |
| 27 | I had no plan , nothing but the instinct of a child to return to its home . |
| 28 | Far below it , unseen in the clouds , the bird that had brought the earlier message to the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork flapped gently back to its home . |
| 29 | Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home . |
| 30 | It took a hundred and fifty lorries to transport it to its home in Swindon . |