Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] its [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London County Council had , for example , been innovative in its approach to the public provision of both education and housing for working-class people . |
| 2 | In a novation , the purchaser will assume and be liable for all the obligations of the vendor under the original contract and the vendor will be relieved of its obligations to the customer under the original contract . |
| 3 | If Labour gains Kingswood , it will be well on its way to depriving the Tories of their overall majority . |
| 4 | Do n't be ashamed of its offence to the proud hearts and minds of self-sufficient men and women . |
| 5 | The Teacher Placement Service was a DTI initiative but the service needed to encourage local ownership and , therefore , needed to be flexible in its approach to each of the teacher placement organisers working in any particular area . |
| 6 | It is expected that the wording will be well received by its current and future policyholders and does enable NCM to be flexible in its approach to domestic credit underwriting . |
| 7 | Starting more was to be one of its responses to the April 1969 police raid . |
| 8 | Indeed , holding prices down to an inefficient level of costs may be inferior in its effects to a form of control in which prices are high but costs are low . |
| 9 | Another question is whether the criminal law ought not to be wider in its application to activities which carry some risk of causing death than in other spheres . |
| 10 | The same may be true of its addition to the 1018 entry that the meeting between Danes and English at Oxford agreed to observe Edgar 's law , which was probably taken from chapter 13 of the Letter of 1019 – 20 , now preserved only in a York manuscript , although there may have been a Worcester copy too . |
| 11 | In Mayo Talc Mining Awareness has been successful in its opposition to the proposal by Talc Technology to build a talc quarry and processing plant at Conrig Hall near Westport . |
| 12 | It is capable however , of being correct in its application to a case where the Food Controller had unlawfully demanded and received payment as a condition of allowing any purchase of milk . |
| 13 | Hungary has been effusive in its help to the Romanians — in the first four days after the revolution no fewer than 550 trucks of aid were sent to Romania . |
| 14 | When predicated of any individual feeling , the information they convey is that of its likeness to the other feelings which we have been accustomed to call by the same name . |
| 15 | The argument is clearest in its application to the theatre : recall Harsnett 's view that the theatre was a zone of pollution and licence , one capable of being managed by locating it in a designated place on the social periphery . |
| 16 | Like any faculty , the psychic sense is more prominent if it is used and If the society in which an individual lives is conducive in its attitudes to the encouragement of such ability . |
| 17 | The point here is that merchantability as a commercial concept is unsuited in its application to consumer supply contracts , a fact which was recognised under the ill-fated Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 . |
| 18 | The senior management of the force has required him to involve himself in politics , to deal with an authority out to undermine him , without adequate resources or support : ‘ I am conscious that this job gives no backing to senior officers who are libelled , and as far as I am concerned , the job is derelict in its duty to police chiefs . ’ |
| 19 | 18 Ross argued that an asset 's average long-term return is dependent on its sensitivity to unanticipated changes in a few economic variables . |
| 20 | The parity grid arrangement is similar in its operation to the snake in that absolute intervention points are set for each member currency against every other at which central banks are obliged to buy or sell their own currencies . |
| 21 | The city is lucky in its proximity to unspoiled woodlands , some of them not much more than ten minutes walking from the centre . |
| 22 | IBM is famous for its attention to detail and not least in the art of political lobbying in key capital cities . |
| 23 | A short film called Galaxy Sweetheart , starring a synthesised Marilyn Monroe , demonstrates that the theory is well on its way to being proved . |
| 24 | It is now thirty-two years since that event and the prophecy is well on its way to becoming true . |
| 25 | Mike Curb , who has built up one of the most successful privately-owned record companies and recently moved his head office to Nashville from Los Angeles , thinks country is well on its way to being a big part of mainstream pop — making a nonsense of the current radio-station categories that still set country apart . |
| 26 | Overall , organiser David Fisk claims the Festival is well on its way to recovering its £500,000 costs . |
| 27 | Interviews have now been held in Categories I and III of this year 's Building Manager of the Year Awards and the adjudicating panel is well on its way to a final selection The final results of the Awards , sponsored by Chaffoteaux et Maury and organised by the CIOB with Building , will be kept under wraps until the Awards Dinner at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on October 7 . |
| 28 | Government policy has signally failed to do this and the result is a profession which is demoralised by its responibility to the children , to parents , and to a host of bodies and organisations , all of whom want their ‘ say ’ . |
| 29 | The plaintiff 's surrejoinder purported to be a traverse , as is evident from its conclusion to the country , the way of ending a pleading which raises no new facts and puts the other party to proof . |
| 30 | The argument of this chapter has been to suggest that a distinctive mode of rationality , which is postmodernist in its opposition to the principles of the Weberian/Fordist organization pattern , may have emerged in some aspects of post-war Japan . |