Example sentences of "[vb -s] its [noun] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How about a restaurant set in the vaults of a medieval monastery , lit by candles and with a menu that owes its variety to the best raw material found around the world ? |
| 2 | Advertising today is a highly specialised business which owes its development to the continuous advance in mass communication and in manufacture — even if at its heart it still is drawing public attention to something . |
| 3 | The song really owes its existence to the Big Apple , the title being a play on Paul Simon 's ‘ The Only Living Boy In New York ’ . |
| 4 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 5 | In his statement smuggled to the Independent in London , Brucan said : ‘ I must take issue with a misconception prevailing in the West that this regime owes its survival to the repressive organs of the State . |
| 6 | The house , moreover , has its relation to the industrial town as Engels describes it , which is also planned so that the paths of the separate nations need never cross . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The football chant articulates its tradition to the specific interests of team supporters and soccer gangs . |
| 9 | The Labour party now shuts its eyes to the two , three or four-person household , and it ignores the single pensioner living alone . |
| 10 | In such a case , the commission refers its findings to the relevant Secretary of State , who may then issue instructions . |
| 11 | The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It finds its way to the outside world via the water system and it is believed to be harmful to animals . |
| 15 | Ballet traces its origins to the great court spectacles of the Renaissance and horses participated in the ‘ horse ballets ’ — both horses and royal riders gorgeously caparisoned by artists such as Henri Gissey . |
| 16 | Fyllo in Greek means ‘ leaf ’ which is why it gives its name to the wafer-thin filo pastry that is used in the preparation of Middle Eastern pastries . |
| 17 | While the SAAF may dominate the Dakota world of the Republic of South Africa , civvie street also maintains its loyalty to the rugged workhorse . |
| 18 | The design chosen was the most innovative of those submitted — a train made from an aluminium bodyshell and driven by a novel A.C. motor which saves some of the energy created when trains brake and feeds its back to the overhead power supply . |
| 19 | The design chosen was the most innovative of those submitted — a train made from an aluminium bodyshell and driven by a novel A.C. motor which saves some of the energy created when trains brake and feeds its back to the overhead power supply . |