Example sentences of "to its [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I would , therefore , suggest that consent is to be explained by reference to its purported normative consequences only .
2 The risk of bankruptcy for an individual company is related to its net worth and to the riskiness of the external economic environment .
3 US Southern Command officials said in mid-January that the aim was gradually to reduce US troop strength in Panama to its pre-invasion level of about 13,000 .
4 These weaknesses were exploited by the Bolsheviks in 1917 when Vikzhel , the old railway trade union , threatened to cut off the capital and the government from the rest of Russia unless Lenin listened to its political demands .
5 An unpredictable aesthetic , it could be said , is a requirement of an historical materialism adequate to its political task .
6 It is not just the EC 's free market consumerism which the Greens detest ; they are opposed , too , to its political structure based on capitalist nation-states .
7 The Prussian Finance Minister , von Motz , explained to the King in 1829 that he saw the economic union of Germany as the prelude to its political unification ‘ under the protection of Prussia ’ .
8 In terms of an automatic ‘ welfare consensus ’ , the social contours of British society have been altered irrevocably , partly by the Thatcher revolution , partly by deeper economic trends , which Thatcherism did not create but successfully harnessed to its political project .
9 But more often a class will achieve an economic interest at the expense of an ideological one , or an ideological one at some cost to its political strength , and this interplay of interests in the course of the class struggle contributes to an exceedingly complex class structure .
10 But the ethos of the system and the reality of democratic centralism lend to its political machinations a different flavour and bias from that found in any system plausibly termed pluralistic .
11 Its importance as a fore-runner was due less to its political ideas than to its military discipline and its administrative personnel , who were later to help organize the day-to-day running of the BUF .
12 At first sight it might be quite reasonable for the Labour party to employ the same approach to its political strategy .
13 As we might expect , nationalism today reflects something like the crisis of the old Wilsonian-Leninist ideology and programme , which is due to its political failure and to the sharply diminished relevance of ‘ nation ’ and ‘ nation-state ’ to the political and economic structure of the globe .
14 Locke also suggests that a man 's presence in a particular state implies tacit consent to its political system .
15 If humanity has a future at all , the issue of democracy will remain central to its political evolution .
16 Cyril Ribicic , the party central committee presidium president ( elected at the 11th Slovene LC congress in December 1989 in succession to Milan Kucan ) , stated that having renounced its constitutionally guaranteed leading role the newly independent party was " equal to its political competition " in the forthcoming elections .
17 While Franco 's energies were focused on the military progress of the war , he devoted little attention to its political aspects .
18 Or perhaps the Government may decide that the provision of cheap houses to its young supporters in the South-east is not as important as holding the thin green line , while cultivating the older guard .
19 Perhaps another sign could be how much education is given to its young people to be a real part of this society .
20 Ecstasy is sold across the North East in night clubs and ‘ raves ’ all night dance parties in warehouses under brand names designed to appeal to its young market .
21 Just as aware as Napoleon III that royal connections could be made to serve a diplomatic turn , Bismarck had used Princess Victoria , wife of the Crown Prince Frederick , as a means of sounding out the British government as to its possible reactions to Leopold 's candidature .
22 What we have to begin with , then , is the posited transcendence of the object relative to its possible perspectival descriptions .
23 Clearly the first K guards correspond to the process ' possible communications , the next L-K to the minimal combinations of communications it can choose to accept from ( but not terminate ) , and the final N-L to its possible final states ( after termination ) .
24 My attention has been drawn to the complex and inelegant Rehabilitation of Offenders Act , 1974 , and , in particular , to its possible consequences for children 's hearings .
25 In addition , by having this land available at the value of its current use , rather than at a value based on speculation as to its possible development , the community will be able to provide , in the places that need them , the public facilities it needs , but can not now afford because of the inflated price it has to pay to the private owner .
26 Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more
27 My own choice for the single most influential factor would be the decision of the Hungarian Government to subordinate its very clear obligations under an agreement with the GDR to its general duty under the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 — a decision which blew a hole in the sealed frontiers of the GDR , and relegated to the past the comfortable slogans of the last three decades .
28 Putting an exact figure on Britain 's NAIRU is rather like chasing a mirage , but changes in unemployment and inflation give clues to its general area .
29 It is whether a reasonable person , looking at the vehicle , and forming a view as to its general use , would say the vehicle might well be used on the road .
30 It was these implications of the greater clarity introduced by the Geneva Protocols on the prohibition of indiscriminate weapons that led the British government , in addition to its general reservation excluding their applicability to nuclear weapons , to formulate further specific reservations in respect of what may constitute a military objective .
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