Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] to its " in BNC.
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| 1 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 2 | The idea that a local authority owes a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers is by no means new , but it has never been subjected to a thorough judicial investigation . |
| 3 | There is some doubt as to whether a health authority is primarily liable , i.e. that it owes a non-delegable duty to its patients . |
| 4 | Resuming the journey from Stone House Bridge , the road now starts a long climb to its summit , rising gently at first and with the Dee an inseparable companion alongside . |
| 5 | The verb metaphor is further characterized by the fact that it has no direct link to its proper term , but acts on the noun of which it is the predicate ; in the case of the transitive verb it can also act on its direct and indirect objects . |
| 6 | It has a similar shape to its smaller cousin , the Scissortail , but is otherwise quite different . |
| 7 | Spinnaker ripstop must not be confused with its near relative , Balloon ripstop which has a stretchy feeling to its touch , comes on 137cm ( 54in ) rolls and does not crease . |
| 8 | Any big city has a dirty hem to its outskirts . |
| 9 | It argues that Britain has a moral responsibility to its citizens in Hong Kong ; that Hong Kong people ‘ do not want to leave … they seek an insurance policy ’ ; that Britain is ‘ markedly ungenerous to its colonies ’ compared with other European countries ; and that ‘ insofar as any Hong Kong people were to move to Britain , they would be a valuable asset to the British economy ’ . |
| 10 | The young greater honeyguide , which parasitises red-throated bee-eaters , has a hooked tip to its bill with which it pecks its nest mates to death . |
| 11 | This boot is slightly more flexible than the K-SB3 L GTX , is more generously sized and has a distinct curve to its sole . |
| 12 | Hydro-electric power , though renewable , has a finite limit to its development potential unlike some of the other renewables and will never contribute a great deal more to world energy supply than it does at present . |
| 13 | The Leatherhead , Surrey-based UK arm of Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon International Inc has a high-end addition to its CNX family of bridge-router products for mixed local network and IBM Corp SNA environments . |
| 14 | To see this , we first have to note that the original sentence [ 3 ] has a phonological aptness to its meaning . |
| 15 | THIS record of televised interviews leaves the impression that psychology bears an uncanny resemblance to its next of kin , the deity , described in a venerable formula as ‘ a sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere ’ . |
| 16 | It should be Christians , and not only Marxists , who assert that capitalism too easily turns a blind eye to its exploitation of the Third World . |
| 17 | Aerial photographs reveal little more than the site 's main features , and plotting scatters of surface finds only gives a reasonable guide to its centre , with little information about its extent or shape . |
| 18 | One building society which serves a special purpose to its customers , even if it is more expensive , is the Ecology Building Society . |
| 19 | Although disputes continue over detail , there remains a persuasive logic to its arguments , paralleling that which it accords to the growth of the party . |
| 20 | The New Guinea impatiens is a compact , bushy plant producing richly coloured foliage which provides a superb foil to its abundant pink to rosy-red busy Lizzie blooms . |