Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unknown to me a honeybee had made a hive in this part of the wall and not long afterwards I became aware of an angry bee searching frantically for the entrance to its hive . |
| 2 | The book traces the history of that institution from its break with the Académie during the Revolution to its abandonment by the state in the 1880s . |
| 3 | But the effluent saga had lasted for nearly eight years and although the court appearances were relatively few and Laura herself never became directly involved , the publicity was unwelcome for a company which claimed the Welsh countryside as the key to its philosophy . |
| 4 | A guide to the literature , if one is available , should serve this purpose well , by linking a presentation of the subject to its bibliography . |
| 5 | Although defeated by 144 votes to 183 Cullen nevertheless gained more support than Dollan of Govan , whose resolution for a return of the ILP to its propagandist role within the Labour Party received only 93 votes . |
| 6 | It was submitted to SOED as one of the inputs to its selection of research priorities for 1993 . |
| 7 | From the start of the day to its finish , the Government have got their priorities wrong . |
| 8 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 9 | Instead of taking a huge currency risk by selling imported goods for roubles , Anis should use the devaluation of the rouble to its advantage by exporting . |
| 10 | A description of their origins and fate will have to wait until we have followed the development of the invertebrates to its climax , but their presence at this stage must be mentioned if the scene in these first jungles is not to be misrepresented . |
| 11 | And certainly those treatises which deal with the spiritual and physical advantages of hearing the Mass ( which ranged from not ageing during the period of the Mass to its efficacy in promoting work or journeys ) stress the belief in the power of the sacrament to affect all aspects of life . |
| 12 | This is to give a particular impression of the organisation to its public . |
| 13 | Physical man was supposed to have evolved from an ape by way of a " missing link " , but psychological evolution was discussed only within the defined limits of Homo sapiens where it was postulated that there had been a progressive development from the childhood of the race to its maturity . |
| 14 | Trip wire was found on several of the approaches to its set . |
| 15 | When , three years later , a licence was sought by the Getty Museum for its export , SAVE pressed the local authority to serve an enforcement notice requiring the return of the statue to its plinth in the grade I listed building from which it had been removed . |
| 16 | Its series of choreographed fighting movements includes all the techniques required to deal with almost any situation and it allows the student to display his competence of the art to its maximum . |
| 17 | What is equally interesting is that the journalistic profession has clasped the promising idea of the Independent to its bosom . |
| 18 | British Lion , the independents ' major distribution channel , had 18 films awaiting release , a situation David Kingsley , the company 's managing director , blamed on the hostility of the circuits to its policy of dividing films between the two of them . |
| 19 | By changing from graphite to diamond , the carbon lowers its volume , and so reduces one of the contributions to its energy : the contribution given by the product of pressure and the volume . |
| 20 | These interiorized schemata are constantly shuffled together , remodelled , discarded , or replaced as the subject shows cognitive adaptation to the objects of its knowledge as an extension of the overall adaptation of the organism to its environment . |
| 21 | In some areas it was necessary to assume that adaptation of the organism to its environment is crucial both for survival and for long-term evolution . |
| 22 | The effect will be some uncompensated charges at the edge of the dielectric ( Fig. 2.16 ) which will draw some further charges of the opposite sign from the interior of the conductor to its surface . |
| 23 | All his life , MacDonald had fought against a class view of politics and for the primacy of political action as against industrial ; for him the logical corollary was that the party must be prepared , when necessary , to subordinate the sectional claims of the unions to its conception of the national interest . |
| 24 | The UK clearinghouse on the other hand makes no charge for its enquiry service nor for distribution of user education materials , but sells all its publications , including the index to its database , as separate items . |
| 25 | There is a road along the glen to its head and , although the sight and sound of motor cars in places of quiet beauty is always a disturbing distraction , the road in Glen Nevis must be accepted because it gives an opportunity to inactive or disabled visitors to see the natural wonders and splendours of this spectacular defile between high mountain ranges . |
| 26 | Closing the door quietly behind her , she padded along the corridor to its junction with the gallery . |
| 27 | It has an air of prosperity , having recovered from the damage to its economy caused by the closing of the Strome Ferry and the re-routing of the main road on the far side of the loch . |
| 28 | As we circled over the city the expanse of Lake Baikal was plainly visible some 45 miles away with the Yenisci River stretching from the lake to its tributary on which the old city of Irkutsk was located . |
| 29 | The group corresponds to Aeneas and his family escaping in the Kleophrades Painter 's picture , and this change too marks the shift of time from the sack to its aftermath . |
| 30 | With the movement of responsibility for the Russian market from the UK to its Mountain View headquarters in California Sun has made a considerable drive in the scientific and academic markets in Russia . |