Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] to its [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Telecom Ltd 's Greenwich , London-based STC Submarine Systems has added another award to its collection from 1977 , 1983 and 1990 , for the installation of its turnkey submarine telecommunications systems . |
| 2 | This overall picture of the marriage relationship would not be complete , however , without some reference to its role as a device imposing ‘ decency and respectability ’ by regulating ‘ indiscriminate child-bearing ’ . |
| 3 | Yesterday it added another country to its list with an order to produce nearly 5m passports for Lithuania . |
| 4 | ‘ Its ‘ word of mouth ’ share is out of all proportion to its share of what goes into the mouth' |
| 5 | Cooper & Lybrand 's Mr Mole says : ‘ Haagen-Dazs has created a so-called super premium sector whose share of ‘ word of mouth ’ is out of all proportion to its share of what goes into the mouth . ’ |
| 6 | Thus emphasis has often been placed on the use of the card catalogue as a major source for locating material , out of all proportion to its value for obtaining information when compared to other tools for information retrieval . |
| 7 | The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 's reputation has long been out of all proportion to its representation on record , at least in the West . |
| 8 | Yet the price of certainty in this sense would be to reduce the competence of the initial decision-maker to a mere factfinder , to deny any weight to its opinion on the interpretation of the constituent parts of the X question , and to embroil the courts in the minutiae of all the elements which comprise the conditions of jurisdiction . |
| 9 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |
| 10 | China therefore regards any challenge to its sovereignty over Tibet as intolerable interference and any threat from inside Tibet as treason . |
| 11 | A comparative example provides another good illustration ; in 1959 , we are told , French archives of diplomacy already held more documents for the years since 1914 than for the whole history of French diplomacy backwards from that date to its foundation under Richelieu . |
| 12 | The trust , which attracts 30,000 visitors each year to its exhibition of pictures illustrating Whitby 's past , has just managed to scrape through with a surplus of £75 . |