Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to its " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to the austerity measures introduced after the OPEC ban , including a three-day working week , they struck against the Conservative government of Edward Heath in 1975 , eventually contributing to its defeat . |
| 2 | Last night a large majority approved a motion to that effect by Mikhail Gorbachev , who admitted more bluntly than ever before that reforms , far from strengthening the economy , were merely adding to its immediate difficulties . |
| 3 | Swallows mix their mud with grass so adding to its strength , and pile pellet on pellet to build cup-shaped nests on ledges beneath house eaves . |
| 4 | Professor Cunliffe 's conclusions were that it was the rising water-table and neglect of the drainage system which caused serious and periodic flooding , so leading to its abandonment . |
| 5 | Our rotten mainmast began whipping sickeningly to and fro and required five men constantly clinging to its lee mainstay to cushion the strain . |
| 6 | Once the spit starts to form material is pushed along it by longshore drift , thus leading to its continued growth until it reaches water so deep that wave action is destructive . |
| 7 | The human was already getting to its feet . |
| 8 | The government is still sticking to its account , which names 10 dead and a further 37 detained . |
| 9 | As a result of these specific , socially constructed functions : ‘ Speech is often evaluated socially according to its closeness to the written language , which explains why standard spoken English is probably closer to written English than is any other spoken variety . |
| 10 | Sun is still clinging to its promised fourth quarter delivery date for the multi-processors ( UX No 385 ) , but admits that may slip to the beginning of next year . |
| 11 | The town 's appearance today is that of a compact , prosperous market centre still clinging to its medieval street plan and to memories of the Franciscan priory once known as the ‘ Lamp of Lothian ’ , a designation transferred in our own century to the church of St Mary . |
| 12 | Diana , who had visited the hospice last month , spent six hours yesterday chatting to its forty surprised patients — and having musical fun . |
| 13 | It is clearly a new preoccupation with tragedy that explains the disproportion — tragedy and its origins : in the historically minded nineteenth century , no one with intellectual pretensions could think of an entity without also looking to its origins , however remote or obscure . |
| 14 | Sudan had suffered increased isolation internationally owing to its pro-Iraq stance over the Gulf crisis . |
| 15 | Six unco-ordinated offices were used for receiving revenue : the old Exchequer , the King 's Chamber — by now reverting to its old function of a domestic household treasury — the Court of Wards and Liveries , the Duchy of Lancaster , the Court of Augmentations , and the Court of First Fruits . |
| 16 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 17 | It is not making a profit , but is now contributing to its operating costs . |
| 18 | And eel-fishing looked much harder this time , the silver-grey often returning to its den empty-handed . |
| 19 | To handle multiple transmission formats , the merged system will use source-adaptive processing — so that the set will handle the signal appropriately according to its type . |
| 20 | PX/Iris GL is based upon version 4.0 of SGI 's environment and will migrate to version 5.0 reference implementations — with the OpenGL programming interface — which SGI is now delivering to its OEMs . |
| 21 | The horse had barely stepped on to the gravelly riverbed at the edge of the ford when it stumbled , almost falling to its knees . |
| 22 | He described the whole process as The Water of the Moon , presumably referring to its happening in a running stream when the moon was at the full : |
| 23 | A rabbit in fear of an enemy will sometimes crouch stockstill , either fascinated or else trusting to its natural inconspicuousness to remain unnoticed . |
| 24 | But before this could be contemplated , there are some more serious problems with the positivist stance that would have to be resolved — again relating to its neglect of criminal justice processes . |
| 25 | According to principle 3 , on market practice , a firm should ‘ comply with any code or standard as in force from time to time and as it applies to the firm either according to its terms or by rulings made under it . ’ |
| 26 | The epoch when the writer photographed the life about him with the mechanics of words redolent of the daguerrotype , is happily drawing to its close . |
| 27 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |