Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eurotunnel , the company financing and overseeing the construction of the rail tunnel between France and the UK [ see p. 35469 ] , announced on May 28 , 1990 , that it had secured additional finance from the European Investment Bank , which had agreed to an increase in the project 's borrowing commitment from £1,000 million to £1,300 million , and that the majority of the 210 international banks supporting the tunnel project had agreed to allow the project to continue to borrow on its prevailing £5,000 million funding capacity . |
| 2 | Network SouthEast , struggling to cope with its massive upsurge in business , proceeded with complete refurbishment of serviceable 1960s stock and started massive investment in new trains , notably its Networker . |
| 3 | An arbitration commission of eminent constitutional lawyers from France , Italy and Germany was appointed ; they were subsequently joined by others from Belgium and Spain when Yugoslavia failed to agree on its own two appointees . |
| 4 | Its accommodation was considerably greater than would ever be needed in normal times , but its nationalistic opulence was intended to come into its own every four years , at the inauguration of successive presidents . |
| 5 | To see something really special today though requires a discerning nature and to an extent it depends upon which technique you want to see at its best . |
| 6 | Ecstasy is sold across the North East in night clubs and ‘ raves ’ all night dance parties in warehouses under brand names designed to appeal to its young market . |
| 7 | He too insisted on drawing a clear line between theology and philosophy ; he accepted Kant 's demolition of any philosophical natural theology , and insisted that theology must be permitted to proceed with its own work without dictation from speculative metaphysics or the imposition upon it of alien concepts and patterns of thought and investigation . |
| 8 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 9 | You ca n't use extra national insurance contributions in one year to make up a shortfall in another ; each year has to stand on its own . |
| 10 | For example , written language typically has to express things more explicitly , because it has to stand on its own . |
| 11 | The result is that Dublin has to stand on its own constant , as well as temporary , merits . |
| 12 | Chemistry has to look to its public image — people are not certain whether it is a good thing or not . |
| 13 | They buy from it and the design group has to look after its own destiny and its own profitability . |
| 14 | ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’ |
| 15 | The group has dominant market share down-under , taking about a third of Australia 's life insurance business , and needs to look beyond its local market for opportunities . |
| 16 | Liant says it wants to focus on its strategic base of programming languages and application enabling tools . |
| 17 | By making language do other than what it is designed to do in its original context , parodic manipulation undermines its illocutionary force rather than its explicit semantic content . |
| 18 | Each science has to do with its own genus , or ‘ kind ’ , which is divided by ‘ differentia ’ into various species . |
| 19 | The numbers may partly be due to the reputation Switchboard enjoys as a good training ground for employment , mainly in the voluntary social services ( every time the organization manages to build up a core of daytime volunteers , half of them find jobs ) but the largest group of prospective volunteers are past callers , people who , having found the service useful , want to contribute to its continued existence . |
| 20 | However a microprocessor. 1 control system can be " taught " to initiate deceleration at the appropriate t , if it is programmed to learn from its previous attempts at producing an optimal trajectory . |
| 21 | In spite of being an experimental novelist himself , Charles Newman has recently levelled a fierce attack on postmodernism which he argues ‘ has come to rely upon its own linguistic awareness of itself rather than plot or character development , to provide its own momentum ’ ( Newman 1985 : 98 ) . |
| 22 | Your body needs to return to its normal pace slowly , just as it must be warmed up . |
| 23 | To convince the inspector , the board will need to rely on its other arguments , to which we now turn . |
| 24 | But , as I told the House on 20 November , if Britain needs to act on its own , it must be free to do so . |
| 25 | Rome is seen to continue on its headlong path to misery and sin , a symbol of the rejection of Christ for the sake of human idols . |
| 26 | The second equation embodies the structural neutrality and rational expectations hypothesis : for each country only the unpredictable component of monetary growth causes output to deviate from its natural rate . |
| 27 | Labour believes it can still secure a clear breakthrough over the next three days and plans to concentrate on its key themes : support for the public services , particularly the NHS , and measures to pull the economy out of recession . |
| 28 | New chairman David Mahony said it has been decided to concentrate on its electrical and electronic businesses . |
| 29 | There was a perfect grace which architects had been working towards through the seventeenth century and which seemed to peak in its purest form at about this time , not without a little Royal influence from Holland ! |
| 30 | The impression just described can be related moreover to the before/after idea which to has been seen to express in its other uses . |