Example sentences of "[noun] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You hit the bottom of the valley , wait for the arms to stop shaking from the effort of holding the bike 's front wheel to its course and take on food from the station de ravitaillement . |
| 2 | The evident plagiarism which underlay her ‘ prodigious ’ contributions to polymer science was too obvious to require special demonstration except to the inquiring scientific minds of the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry which elected Elena Ceauşescu to its membership . |
| 3 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 4 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 5 | The Spires and Shires tour company has added a new landmark to its sightseeing tour of Oxford . |
| 6 | The frog had brought some other young frogs to its spot among the leaves at the edge of the world of the flower . |
| 7 | THE Jacqueline Annis School of Dancing received a boost to its charity show , being staged at the Clacton County High School on March 12 and 13 . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Iran had achieved a considerable boost to its morale : many foreign commentators believed that , with this achievement under their belts and the onus on Iraq to winkle the Iranians out of Fao , the war was now going Iran 's way . |
| 9 | Frelimo gave a major boost to its drive for peace on Aug. 16 , when its central committee unanimously endorsed the scheduling of multiparty elections in 1991 and the effective abandonment of the one-party state [ see p. 37643 ; 37843-44 ] . |
| 10 | Although the House of Lords in Anisminic affirmed the continued existence of non-jurisdictional errors of law , we have seen that certain other judges are in favour of pushing the Anisminic reasoning to its limit and discarding the dichotomy . |
| 11 | Stephen Koss 's verdict on the political press during the twentieth century applies with equal force to its impact on the operation of criminal justice : |
| 12 | For manufactured goods , Malaysia has relied heavily on attracting foreigners to its Export processing Zones ( see below ) and letting them fight it out in the exports markets with the minimum of intervention . |
| 13 | One way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the present value of the investment and to compare that with the present cost . |
| 14 | A second way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the investment 's expected rate of return and to compare this with the prevailing rate of interest . |
| 15 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties dogging other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 16 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties faced by other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 17 | Cypress attributed its upswing to its restructuring efforts , blaming a negative impact on revenues in part on Sun Microsystems Inc 's delayed design-in decision on HyperSparc , Cypress ' Viking competitor . |
| 18 | Stockton Twinning Association needs new blood to extend the town 's hand of friendship to its twin town of Asnieres-sur-Seine , on the northern outskirts of Paris . |
| 19 | ’ Ask the Lord to open your eyes to its meaning . |
| 20 | To quote Piesse again , " If there is much legal jargon and intricacy of arrangement [ the client ] may feel he is the victim of some art practised perhaps for the draftsman 's own purposes or at least with neglectful indifference to its effect on ordinary people " ( p54 ) . |
| 21 | Finally it was recorded that " representatives of G-1 and G-5 should go to Main Eighth Army for discussion " and Eighth Army had been notified to this effect on 23 May , as a reply to its signal U 128 of 21 May requesting guidance on questions concerning " various nationals " . |
| 22 | But the SDLP expected to add another seat to its team , giving it eight benches to occupy in the council chamber . |
| 23 | The US position , with President Bush facing elections in November , was apparently influenced by growing domestic opposition to its policy of forcibly repatriating Haitian refugees [ see pp. 38905 ; 39046 ] , and US pressure was now expected to be increased on Aristide to recognize Bazin as Prime Minister [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 24 | British Telecommunications Plc yesterday came out fighting in its ‘ we are more liberal than what you are ’ playground war of words with AT&T Co , saying that opposition to its application to offer services in the US attempts to exploit regulatory procedures and distort the issues in order to delay the application , Reuter reports from Washington . |
| 25 | Towards the end of the year an important invitation arrived from Prague , the Bohemian capital , which had taken Figaro to its heart with unbridled enthusiasm . |
| 26 | It decided to question the validity of the Regulations in proceedings for judicial review but to avoid adverse publicity which might arise if it was the only building society failing to pay in accordance with the Regulations and to avoid the danger of being charged penalties , it paid three instalments as required by the Regulations but without prejudice to its right to recover those sums if it was correct in its contention that the Regulations were void . |
| 27 | If what the Purchaser says is fair , why does it reserve the right to apply the indemnity basis without prejudice to its right to apply the contractual measure as well ? |
| 28 | The chip is instructed to ’ read ’ , so it copies the value in its addressed cell to its output line . |
| 29 | But it was a valuable animal with many calves to its name and the owners hovered over it , beating it viciously , insisting that it stand up . |
| 30 | The Palace dismissed it as a fake , but within 24 hours Royal officials appeared to add weight to its authenticity by failing to reject it outright as a hoax . |