Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] its [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisboa went on to become the leading soccer club of the day and eventually changed its name to Benfica , the club renowned today in world soccer . |
| 2 | Swraj Paul 's Caparo Automotive group raised its cash offer for Armstrong Equipment to 185p yesterday , valuing the fasteners manufacturer at £98million , and promptly increased its holding to 46.7 per cent . |
| 3 | In response the USA had denied New Zealand access to military intelligence , the preferential purchase of equipment and participation in joint military manoeuvres ; in August 1986 the US had additionally imposed the ban on ministerial-level contacts and formally suspended its obligations to New Zealand under the ANZUS treaty , the tripartite defensive alliance between the US , Australia and New Zealand [ see pp. 35457-58 ] . |
| 4 | It drifted the globe for just over two years looking for a port to discharge the ash , and even changed its name to the Pelicano in an attempt to escape detection . |
| 5 | It was Anderson in his Manchester pamphlet who most conspicuously at this early stage of the antislavery campaign raised the free-labour argument and implicitly defined its appropriateness to man 's nature . |
| 6 | No direct comparison can be made with last year 's figures , as chairman Hugo Biermann reversed his company into a quoted shell company called Pathfinder Plc , and then changed its name to Maddox — because it was based in Maddox Street in London . |
| 7 | The Panel found that the persons involved in the case were unlikely to comply with the standards expected in the conduct of UK takeovers and consequently reported its conclusions to the SIB , the SROs and RPBs for appropriate action by each of them in the light of their several cold shouldering rules . |
| 8 | The stock market chose to ignore Mr Lawson and instead turned its attention to potential bid targets . |