Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under that system , the Eurocheque is free of charge to its payee , the costs being borne by the drawer . |
| 2 | Because fruit is not very nutritious in proportion to its bulk , animals that eat it must consume a lot . |
| 3 | To have used the booklet is associated with more positive attitudes towards its general utility ; teachers who recall it well hold more positive attitudes towards its general utility and flexibility and effectiveness than those who have not ; as might be expected , teachers who associate changes in school with the use of the booklet hold more positive attitudes towards its general utility than those who do not ; teachers in schools in the less prosperous northern part of the borough are less negative with respect to its efficiency . |
| 4 | The success of Windows is due in part to its ability to keep several applications active at the same time — each in its own screen or window . |
| 5 | Electrolux , the world 's biggest household appliance maker , has seen its year end profits for 1991 fall , due in part to its transfer of cooker production to Spennymoor . |
| 6 | In fact once it reaches a large size , or starts to breed , territoriality will almost certainly make private quarters a necessity — it is relatively peaceful in relation to its size , but — and this applies to many other Central American substrate spawners — it is unreasonable to expect a fish with a natural breeding territory of 10 or more feet in diameter to share a tank with anything else . |
| 7 | Although the cuckoo is a bigger bird than the reed warbler or any other of its regular hosts , its eggs are unusually small in proportion to its size , with the result that there does not appear to be a great discrepancy between them . |
| 8 | Lewesdon climbs nearly nine hundred feet and , unlike Pilsdon Pen , which is bare and rugged , is thick with trees to its summit . |
| 9 | One of the main reasons for the Soviet failure to undermine Latin American reliance on Western imports is that Soviet industrial machinery and equipment is widely considered to be inferior in quality to its capitalist produced counterparts . |