Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One depicts Mary 's first husband , Francis II , three times rushing to welcome her in heaven , and three times finding that he can only embrace a headless body , so that he curses his people ; whereupon the poet exhorts them to forget their own troubles , and unite to destroy England and send its queen to a dreadful death . |
| 2 | The collection owes its origin to a major bequest of drawings and sculptures by the neo-classical artist John Flaxman in the 1840s and was further enriched by a bequest of German graphic works by George Grote in 1872 . |
| 3 | It owes its effectiveness to a patented twin-nozzle diverter and clever bowl design . |
| 4 | The Operator Terminal must have a fixed terminal address or Decserver port so that Offline can direct its messages to a known and expected destination . |
| 5 | On Oct. 31 , NATO officials in Brussels disclosed that France had dropped its objections to a pan-European security " forum " . |
| 6 | Questions whirled in her brain as the play progressed , unfolding its tale to an appreciative audience , yet she was no nearer to an answer as the curtain dropped for the final time after the cast had been made to take several bows . |
| 7 | They comprised the Bullhouse corn mill , a fulling mill ( later a wire mill ) which had given its name to a new settlement at Millhouse Green , the Ecklands bridge paper mill ( later an umbrella works ) , the Plumpton cloth mill , the Thurlstone corn mill and another cloth mill which had been erected in 1740 as an oil mill for crushing rape and linseed . |
| 8 | It achieves this by transforming its collection to a single house standard and by removing the software and hardware dependencies to ensure that the data remain available after the possible demise of the packages and hardware . |
| 9 | As eastern Europe transforms its economies to a western pattern , Europe in terms of the Community need no longer stop at the Oder , because the Community , as we use that term , has now become the western European Community . |
| 10 | Indeed , if neglected , a dog 's coat may become so tangled and matted that the poor creature will have to be anaesthetized in order to restore its coat to a good condition . |
| 11 | These enable the original owner of the deposit to sell its ownership to a third party if the need arises and make the time deposit instantly realisable , albeit at a price . |
| 12 | Liverpool city council recently gave backing to the scheme , and on January 3 the company will present its plans to a special meeting of Wirral council . |
| 13 | The British colony , already fretting over whether China will give its nod to an expensive new airport in the territory , can ill afford the economic blow of a change in China 's status . |
| 14 | It transferred its cargo to an Irish tug , the Marita Ann , which was duly seized by the Irish Navy . |
| 15 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 16 | Some original Firebirds had three pickups , but only a three-way switch ; as well as master volume and tone controls , the 555 links its pickups to a five-way slider switch for extra variation . |
| 17 | These were announced last autumn when the government reversed its commitment to a separate ringfenced fund to support misusers in the community , instead giving SSDs the purse strings without extra funding . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , once a school opens its gates to a broader public than the one it has been designed to serve , its staff can no longer work in an educational laager , isolated from the outside world . |
| 19 | Even more to the point , how can it move its gripper to a given position ? |
| 20 | The committee was to submit its proposals to a 260-member consultative assembly responsible for drafting by the end of the year the new constitution which was expected to be presented for approval in a national referendum . |
| 21 | The committee was expected to submit its report to an extraordinary summit of Warsaw Pact leaders scheduled for November 1990 . |
| 22 | A regulatory body will have to be empowered by law to administer the new rules ; however , since the proposed Directive allows the regulatory authority to delegate its powers to a private body , there is no reason why the Panel in its present form should not be given the necessary authority with the result that changes in day-to-day practice may prove to be minimal . |
| 23 | It was not an industrial region ; the city owed its origin to a medieval religious foundation , dedicated in the first place to meditation and in the second to study — hence the university . |
| 24 | This must surely indicate that the site played a part in the Roman advance into the Welsh marches , and that the town owed its origins to an early military presence . |
| 25 | This was typical of the intellectual , experimental tendencies in French music at this time , the most important of which was musique mesuree a l'antique which owed its inception to a crackbrained idea of the poet Antoine de Balf , an associate of Ronsard and Du Bellay in the Pléiade , who in 1570 persuaded Charles IX to establish an Académie de Poesie et de Musique . |
| 26 | On security issues , Solomon reassured the leaders that the US would not abandon its commitment to a strong regional presence . |
| 27 | Gwynedd Health Authority has also issued an assurance that the disaster will not alter its commitment to a multi-million pound investment programme . |
| 28 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 29 | A gliding club which lost its home to a new car plant says business is on the up and up . |
| 30 | Limited by what , in a recession , it could realistically claim to be spending , and obliged to exaggerate its fiscal rectitude to appear electable in the City , Labour had either to trim its sails to an economic situation it assured us was dire — thereby undermining the main reason why people supported them — or hold to its promises , confirming the impression that , once the party was in power , taxation and spending would soar . |