Example sentences of "[adv] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the wheel has come full circle : the main feature in the design of the primitive sickle is included — much to its advantage — in the latest models of the combine harvester . |
| 2 | In Part Two I will suggest a way in which the important contribution that anomie theory makes to understanding crime can be reformulated in classical terms , much to its benefit . |
| 3 | The quality of even our grandest scenery owes much to its intimacy of scale . |
| 4 | It has been suggested ( Walker , 1982 , p. 11 ) that the popularity of ‘ community care , owes much to its flexibility and adaptability — the term can be used to describe a wide range of institutions and services ( and , critics would add , the lack of them too ) . |
| 5 | The art owes much to its predecessor , kung fu , which was the root of its modern development . |
| 6 | Birmingham 's popularity with meeting planners owes much to its ease of accesses from all parts of the UK and Europe . |
| 7 | He revised the work very thoroughly , and much to its improvement , in 1880 — two years after completing not only ‘ Eugene Onegin ’ and the Fourth Symphony , but his disastrous marriage as well . |
| 8 | it increases the complexity of the description without , in my view , contributing much to its value . |
| 9 | In turn , the types of constructions in which a verb may appear owe much to its meaning . |
| 10 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 11 | CAM developments therefore give greater credence to the ideas behind activity-based costing , though not necessarily to its application in complex routine costing systems providing regular monthly reports on an activity basis . |
| 12 | Their work returned afresh to the problem of social waste in education , and especially to its manifestation in the selective and divided system of secondary education . |
| 13 | This was due not merely to its length , but also to the character and personality of Boniface ; yet even here Edward was in luck . |
| 14 | They do not have a brush tongue but an extremely long one divided into two from its middle down to its tip . |
| 15 | I mean you could never load er , you could never load a hopper down to its plimsoll mark with peat , that was so light and cos you could n't put any more in so you used to have to take it to sea perhaps we we well you would call it half loaded . |
| 16 | The African version of the stegosaur had long spikes all the way down to its tail , with spikes even on its back legs . |
| 17 | Weatherall runs riot again on an extended ‘ Come Together ’ , stripping the original hit single down to its component parts and sampling black activist Malcolm X to put across its corny but effective ‘ peacy & unity ’ vibe . |
| 18 | We 'd have to jazz it up a little , get a few prominent vocalists to sing over the coolant 's bubble , a few name producers to chip the chilly vibration down to its component cubes and then restack it into a great wall of freezing sound . |
| 19 | Yet poetry which uses old phrases is not always bound down to its creator 's intention . |
| 20 | The omission of IBM from the initial list is down to its lack of commitment to open systems , according to John Hille , D&B 's director : ‘ When we chose the platforms there were other vendors more committed to open systems . |
| 21 | Food particles , sticking to the wall of the bag , are swept down to its bottom by cilia and into a little gut which leads out of the bottom of the bag and curves round to join the exhalant tube . |
| 22 | This group — and there were some sterling institutions reportedly among the participants — would have trimmed USL down to its core operating system , dumped the loss-making language sector , sold off the $5m-a-year Tuxedo line that some insiders consider a crown jewel and cut back on ES/MP which everybody wanted and no one is buying . |
| 23 | She was down to its level now , her finger jabbing at the zip of his trousers . |
| 24 | Although it is rare to see a carpet that 's been worn right down to its backing they can often look worn . |
| 25 | The main object of this project is to trace out the life-history of the Keynesian Revolution--from its sources in Keynes ' own ‘ life and times ’ down to its expiry in the wake of the second oil shock in 1979 . |
| 26 | Genius is the bust of Beethoven and Keats dying and Shelley dying and the size of War and Peace and poor old Sartre banging away at his trilogy and Hemingway paring it down to its essence and Monet unable to distinguish colours any more and Picasso staring out at the camera with his chest bare and his eyes blazing and Cézanne snarling like a dog and then walking out of Aix with his canvas and paints on his back to paint that mountain and Byron dying and Pushkin dying and all the rest of it . |
| 27 | Beyond the rocks a hairpin bend carried the track to the left , and a hundred yards farther on another sharp bend took it down to its junction with the forest road . |
| 28 | In order to avoid any trouble with the Warden 's forces , they decided to give Jedburgh itself a wide berth , so followed Rule Water down to its junction with Teviot at Menslaws , where they camped the night . |
| 29 | They had to be ready — and able — to do absolutely anything from greeting a minister off a plane to cleaning drains , from handling the press to guiding the helicopter down to its landing site with hand signals . |
| 30 | In another a family is just sitting down to its evening meal . |