Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor would we wish to ignore it if we could , for its relation to its counterpart in Exodus is both interesting and significant . |
| 2 | In knowing that something is an order one knows all there is to know about its relation to its execution . |
| 3 | It is outwardly then a buoyant picture : a long-established family firm mindful of its responsibility to its home town . |
| 4 | Spencer Stuart 's business in London and Manchester owes much of its success to its Britishness , to the fact that its consultants are at home in even the most conservative Boardrooms ; the firm works in direct contrast to the style apparently adopted by Korn/Ferry , for instance . |
| 5 | Trip wire was found on several of its approaches to its set . |
| 6 | The shape of a beak is described by the ratio of its length to its depth , and its curvature ; similarly , the position of eyes may be characterised as the angle which they subtend at the centre of the bird 's head . |
| 7 | The so-called " bare infinitive " will be analysed here as evoking a perfective view of the realization of an event , i.e. the image of an event as unfolding in time from its beginning to its end in the case of an action-like event or as actualizing its full lexical content at each instant of its existence in the case of a state-like one . |
| 8 | I think that 's the same situation as with nuclear power , which has taken perhaps fifty years from its discovery to its application on a large scale . |
| 9 | On the other hand , for Heraclitus it signified the period of the world from its formation to its destruction and rebirth . |
| 10 | Under the then prevailing adjustable peg arrangements , any one currency could fluctuate within a band ( or ‘ tunnel ’ ) 1 per cent either side of the dollar par value , so if one EC currency moved from its floor to its ceiling and another moved from its ceiling to its floor there would be a 4 per cent relative fluctuation in the values of the two currencies . |
| 11 | If one EC currency rose from its floor to its ceiling against the dollar , whilst another fell from its ceiling to its floor , there would be a 9 per cent change in the relative values of the two currencies . |
| 12 | Under the then prevailing adjustable peg arrangements , any one currency could fluctuate within a band ( or ‘ tunnel ’ ) 1 per cent either side of the dollar par value , so if one EC currency moved from its floor to its ceiling and another moved from its ceiling to its floor there would be a 4 per cent relative fluctuation in the values of the two currencies . |
| 13 | If one EC currency rose from its floor to its ceiling against the dollar , whilst another fell from its ceiling to its floor , there would be a 9 per cent change in the relative values of the two currencies . |
| 14 | The ruminant continually regurgitates food from its stomach to its mouth to chew it up further ( that is what a cow is doing when ‘ chewing cud ’ ) . |
| 15 | He foresees the disappearance of the author in favour of a cybernetic combinatory which will shift the decisive moment of a text from its production to its reception . |
| 16 | To get an idea of some of the many different features that can be produced , consider what happens to a single , large flow as it is traced from its source to its tip . |