Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On Oct. 31 , NATO officials in Brussels disclosed that France had dropped its objections to a pan-European security " forum " . |
| 7 | The Labour party now shuts its eyes to the two , three or four-person household , and it ignores the single pensioner living alone . |
| 8 | In such a case , the commission refers its findings to the relevant Secretary of State , who may then issue instructions . |
| 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 | From the beginning , the Association limited its activities to the 21 small towns in the region and , effectively , to the main settlements within this group ( Garbett-Edwards 1972 ) . |
| 11 | This project will now generalise its findings to the graphical teaching of more powerful logics and to the choice of media of expression in the design of computer interfaces . |
| 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 | A territorial sunbird can time its visits to a particular flower such that its nectar has built up to a high level . |
| 14 | WHAT a delightful coup by the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , to open its doors to the Maryinsky Theatre , St Petersburg , in a Royal gala celebrating the Russians ' renaming both the theatre and its city with their original title . |
| 15 | The still-rarefied atmosphere received a heavy blast of different air as the school opened its gates to the bulging generation of girls born just after the war and a working class bound for higher educational achievements than it had ever had within its reach . |
| 16 | Labour will limit its protests to the predictable press conferences . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Through the billowing smoke , shadows can be seen writhing about , one of which is wearing a devil mask that leers out of the fog and shakes its horns to the hellish racket . |
| 19 | Finally , it provides that ‘ the state which makes the preliminary enquiry … shall promptly report its findings to the said states and shall indicate whether it intends to exercise jurisdiction ’ — in other words , whether to prosecute or extradite . |
| 20 | What we know of the family shows that it enjoyed its privileges to the full , and shared a positive and happy lifestyle , without hardship , yet without vaunted excess — a balanced lifestyle , despite his indispositions . |
| 21 | It had attempted to conceal its breach of the limit by making the bids in the names of clients and by not reporting its acquisitions to the Federal Reserve . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the case , heard by Lord Justice Lloyd and Mr Justice Blofeld in the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division , the arguments put forward on behalf of Mr Curtin centred on the validity of the Council decision to delegate its powers to the Assistant Director , and on the rationality and fairness of the Assistant Director 's decision . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | LABOUR 'S biggest backer is slashing its donations to the parliamentary party by a third to £1 million . |
| 28 | The company has now started flying from Gatwick , and , to help to stimulate demand for the Gatwick operation , Airtours has become a regular advertiser in the South East , particularly on the Underground , where it promotes its holidays to the price-conscious sun seeker . |
| 29 | Witness its monuments to the dead of the Second World War : old synagogues are preserved , public buildings stand as memorials , and — unique in the world — Amsterdam has its own Homomonument , which commemorates and mourns the homosexual victims of fascism . |
| 30 | 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 . |