Example sentences of "find its [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | EXCEPT where rocks are heavily cracked or fissured , it usually takes many years for water to find its way down through the soil and the unsaturated zone to the saturated zone of an aquifer . |
| 2 | And I do n't propose to consider here whether Labour should lurch to the left to find its way out of the wilderness . |
| 3 | For most of us , the turkey is as traditional as mince pies , but the story of how it found its way on to the Christmas table is an interesting one . |
| 4 | Despite the opportunities for patronage and profit which resulted from the statute , what we need to note here is the existence of an explicit legal restriction on endowments for the church , a limitation which found its way on to the statute books and into the consciousness , therefore , of lawyers and members of parliament for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 5 | Some aid workers estimated that as much as half of the food aid sent since January had been stolen , although some pointed out that looted food eventually found its way on to the market . |
| 6 | Although much was spread on British roads , some found its way on to the nation 's dinner tables through stores ' own label brands . |
| 7 | A significant proportion of this expenditure found its way in to the mass media field . |
| 8 | He read the letters interlaced with hearts ; he lit a cigarette , exhaled slowly , watching the smoke nudge across the roof until it found its way out into the sky through the circle in the roof like a full moon ; he lifted the door open , and looked across the olive grove . |
| 9 | Not for his personal use : the tetracycline , the methadone — it all finds its way back to the pharmacy at AMS . |
| 10 | When , however , the government spends the £1 billion and the money finds its way back to the banks , the banks ' balances at the Bank of England will rise back again by £1 billion . |
| 11 | Critics of the idea argue that companies can achieve the same purpose by paying out good dividends , but Laing questions whether much of this money finds its way back into the community . |
| 12 | By the time the evaluation began all the stock purchased under the project had found its way on to the shelves . |
| 13 | Emancipation with land had found its way on to the agenda . |
| 14 | As the smoke from the fire gently filters upwards through the drying malted barley , the peat gently imparts its distinctive aroma , which will in time find its way through to the finished malt whisky . |
| 15 | The cirque was made , it seems , even before the period of glaciation , by water finding its way out from the mass if of the Monte Perdido behind and undermining the cliffs , though it was the glacier , shreds only of which are left , that eventually cleared this gigantic bowl of its debris . |
| 16 | Also it would involve computer firms in expensive re-designs. and at least part of this expense would find its way through to the end user . |
| 17 | In return for this concession the English government obtained a number of crucial episcopal appointments , not least the translation of Sudbury to Canterbury ; moreover , the good offices of the pope were assured in the current peace negotiations ; finally , some of the money would find its way back to the English crown for the ransom of the pope 's brother , Roger Beaufort , who was then an English prisoner of war . |
| 18 | There is every chance that the IDO application will eventually find its way back to the Welsh Office , who have declined to ‘ call it in ’ voluntarily . |