Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] to the [adj] " 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 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 3 | Advertising today is a highly specialised business which owes its development to the continuous advance in mass communication and in manufacture — even if at its heart it still is drawing public attention to something . |
| 4 | The song really owes its existence to the Big Apple , the title being a play on Paul Simon 's ‘ The Only Living Boy In New York ’ . |
| 5 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 6 | In his statement smuggled to the Independent in London , Brucan said : ‘ I must take issue with a misconception prevailing in the West that this regime owes its survival to the repressive organs of the State . |
| 7 | The house , moreover , has its relation to the industrial town as Engels describes it , which is also planned so that the paths of the separate nations need never cross . |
| 8 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 9 | If you have followed our series on the use of the C programming language , then you will recognise its value to the practising engineer . |
| 10 | Finally , there were merchants , the men who organized the markets that enabled the corn or flour or bread to find its way to the hungry , the wool to the weaver , fuller and dyer , the cloth to the man who needed a new costume , timber to the shipbuilder , timber and stone to the church . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of it found its way to the Irish Republic . ’ |
| 12 | A staff function should be positioned so that it can funnel its services to the organisational levels who may be the public face of the organisation to outside groups . |
| 13 | The heat flash of an enormously powerful neutron bomb had carbonised a planet with the ensuing radioactive fallout condemning its survivors to the full horrors of atrophy and mutation . |
| 14 | This Society , which later changed its name to the Ecclesiological Society , sought to make churches more worthy settings for worship and for the liturgy of the Church of England . |
| 15 | It was in September 1908 that the club moved to rented premises in Store Street and changed its name to the National Deaf Club and opened its membership to deaf people of whatever school , not just oralist . |
| 16 | In the same year the N A L R W U changed its name to the National Union of Agricultural Workers ( NUAW ) . |
| 17 | The group changed its name to The Beautiful Losers and won Melody Maker 's best newcomers of 1975 award ( but nobody noticed ) . |
| 18 | After the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 , the Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital Committee changed its title to the present one and the sing continued , providing the help that is still so important . |
| 19 | The best way to mimic an earthquake is to place a building on a shaking table which subjects its Foundations to the same force as the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake . |
| 20 | The football chant articulates its tradition to the specific interests of team supporters and soccer gangs . |
| 21 | Within the small but industrially and intellectually significant British party dissatisfaction with the leadership had already been growing before the Soviet Union provided its response to the Hungarian events . |
| 22 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 23 | The State Department is pleased the Turkish government is not letting the legal costs deter it from pursuing its claim to the Lydian hoard . |
| 24 | The Labour party now shuts its eyes to the two , three or four-person household , and it ignores the single pensioner living alone . |
| 25 | LASMO aims to conduct its business to the highest possible professional standards . |
| 26 | It is hoped that a detailed study of this sort of one country will make its contribution to the general understanding of economic growth , now a topic of growing interest . |
| 27 | Large publicity campaigns began and the Irish Times also lent its weight to the pro-divorce argument , campaigning in its columns until the eve of the referendum in late June . |
| 28 | However , the label ’ semantic ’ will continue to be used , although it is intended that the reader should not restrict its denotation to the strict linguistic sense . |
| 29 | The University of Nottingham is meeting these challenges by maintaining its commitment to the highest quality teaching and research . |
| 30 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |