Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A lot of it found its way to the Irish Republic . ’ |
| 2 | This Society , which later changed its name to the Ecclesiological Society , sought to make churches more worthy settings for worship and for the liturgy of the Church of England . |
| 3 | It was in September 1908 that the club moved to rented premises in Store Street and changed its name to the National Deaf Club and opened its membership to deaf people of whatever school , not just oralist . |
| 4 | In the same year the N A L R W U changed its name to the National Union of Agricultural Workers ( NUAW ) . |
| 5 | The group changed its name to The Beautiful Losers and won Melody Maker 's best newcomers of 1975 award ( but nobody noticed ) . |
| 6 | After the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 , the Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital Committee changed its title to the present one and the sing continued , providing the help that is still so important . |
| 7 | Within the small but industrially and intellectually significant British party dissatisfaction with the leadership had already been growing before the Soviet Union provided its response to the Hungarian events . |
| 8 | Large publicity campaigns began and the Irish Times also lent its weight to the pro-divorce argument , campaigning in its columns until the eve of the referendum in late June . |
| 9 | The small convoy made its way to the fortified barracks , where the Range Rover went through the gates on its own , the armoured escort returning to duty in the scarred city . |
| 10 | The centre was brought to a halt as the procession made its way to the National Parliament . |
| 11 | ‘ I sold my soul to rock'n'roll before it sold its soul to the major multi-nationals . ’ |
| 12 | The Council reiterated its adherence to the 1950 Collective Security Pact , which stipulated that aggression against one Arab state was an aggression against all Arab states . |
| 13 | Indeed , even when the Schools Council diverted its attention to the whole curriculum , in contrast to its preoccupation with individual areas or aspects , it maintained its non-recommendatory stance . |
| 14 | The still-rarefied atmosphere received a heavy blast of different air as the school opened its gates to the bulging generation of girls born just after the war and a working class bound for higher educational achievements than it had ever had within its reach . |
| 15 | The International Tennis Federation yesterday reaffirmed its commitment to the new £4 million event but said it was still discussing objections with the ATP . |
| 16 | The European Council was " satisfied with progress achieved so far towards establishing the single market " and declared its commitment to the intergovernmental conference on EMU to be held in December 1990 " with the objective of ratification [ of the necessary treaty changes ] before the end of 1992 " . |
| 17 | After the war MI5 turned its attention to the growing menace of Bolshevism which the government feared would soon engulf the country . |
| 18 | What we know of the family shows that it enjoyed its privileges to the full , and shared a positive and happy lifestyle , without hardship , yet without vaunted excess — a balanced lifestyle , despite his indispositions . |
| 19 | On Feb. 13 Shin Kanemaru , the head of the Miyazawa faction , commented that many Japanese had forgotten that Japan owed its prosperity to the American market . |
| 20 | The WBO owed its formation to the cold shoulder presented by the world to South African sportsmen during the apartheid era . |
| 21 | The Jury awarded its prize to the Italian film , Il Ladro di Bambini ( The Child Snatcher ) by Gianni Amelio . |
| 22 | The Shield alerted its readers to the great possibilities opened up to women by the growing focus on hygiene . |
| 23 | AI submitted its report to the new Government of Bangladesh , urging it to end these human rights violations but to date has received no response . |
| 24 | The book summarised its approach to the new attitude towards traffic restraint in towns in the phrase ‘ new rights , new duties , new possibilities . ’ |
| 25 | It took its products to the southern USA , where lightweight machinery ( in which it then specialised ) was particularly suitable because soil conditions were sandier and so easier to work . |
| 26 | It could have recognised Bosnia 's independence and offered its services to the new state , turning its back on Serbia . |
| 27 | On 7 August 1936 the NAC put its proposals to the Labour Party , the Communist Party and the Co-operative Party , but received no support . |
| 28 | Fujitsu attributed its loss to the sluggish global economy , but the company has no hit products in the computer market now that mainframes have gone ex-growth , it is only embarking on building a mid-range Unix business in Japan , in part with machines made by its ICL Plc affiliate and by Sun Microsystems Inc , and its personal computer business labours in the shadow of that of NEC Corp . |
| 29 | Fujitsu attributed its loss to the sluggish global economy , but the company has no hit products in the computer market now that mainframes have gone ex-growth , it is only embarking on building a mid-range Unix business in Japan , in part with machines made by its ICL Plc affiliate and by Sun Microsystems Inc , and its personal computer business labours in the shadow of that of NEC Corp . |
| 30 | Another , more austerely intellectual , centre was Elea , which gave its name to the Eleatic school whose most famous representatives ( Zeno , who is not the same Zeno as the fourth-century founder of Stoicism ; and Parmenides ) addressed themselves to philosophical problems of being and identity . |