Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the board of the selling company must consider its responsibilities to the company , its shareholders , its employees and , where insolvency is a possibility , its creditors . |
| 2 | First , the club could not afford large-scale spending on players : the payment of £200 for Lloyd Davies in 1907 strained its resources to the limit . |
| 3 | TMAM owes its origins to the Wealden Aviation Archaeological Group ( WAAG ) , who were active in the 1970s recovering material from crash sites in southern England . |
| 4 | The Wellcome Foundation Limited owes its origins to the formation of the partnership Burroughs Wellcome Co in 1880 . |
| 5 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 6 | It has its pointers to the future , but I would have forgiven any Vienna professor in 1876 who failed to predict what was to follow . |
| 7 | The Comintern had not confined its attacks to the Right Social Democrats alone . |
| 8 | The Panel found that the persons involved in the case were unlikely to comply with the standards expected in the conduct of UK takeovers and consequently reported its conclusions to the SIB , the SROs and RPBs for appropriate action by each of them in the light of their several cold shouldering rules . |
| 9 | A staff function should be positioned so that it can funnel its services to the organisational levels who may be the public face of the organisation to outside groups . |
| 10 | The heat flash of an enormously powerful neutron bomb had carbonised a planet with the ensuing radioactive fallout condemning its survivors to the full horrors of atrophy and mutation . |
| 11 | The studies produced interesting results , though there is some doubt about the statistical validity of applying its conclusions to the whole of the uplands in the UK . |
| 12 | The best way to mimic an earthquake is to place a building on a shaking table which subjects its Foundations to the same force as the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake . |
| 13 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
| 14 | The danger to an investor would be if the investment trust 's net asset value fell so much that it could not afford to meet its commitments to the zero dividend preference shareholders . |
| 15 | The Labour party now shuts its eyes to the two , three or four-person household , and it ignores the single pensioner living alone . |
| 16 | Compton Marbling supplies its wares to the trade for use in books and so on , but also sells direct to the public via its catalogue . |
| 17 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 18 | By 1894 Glasgow Town Council , the same august body that had fought at Flodden and given its trousers to the Bonnie Prince , changed its name and became ‘ The Corporation of Glasgow ’ . |
| 19 | In such a case , the commission refers its findings to the relevant Secretary of State , who may then issue instructions . |
| 20 | Although it dies , the greenfly 's scent alerts its relatives to the danger , and they drop to the ground and escape . |
| 21 | A messenger he had employed to take a letter to France revealed its contents to the king . |
| 22 | From the beginning , the Association limited its activities to the 21 small towns in the region and , effectively , to the main settlements within this group ( Garbett-Edwards 1972 ) . |
| 23 | Central Council records its thanks to the recipients of Honours and Presidential Certificates for their support of the work of the Association , and extends its congratulations on their awards . |
| 24 | An international company is likely to rely on agents to sell its products to the country 's markets . |
| 25 | This project will now generalise its findings to the graphical teaching of more powerful logics and to the choice of media of expression in the design of computer interfaces . |
| 26 | Surely in the next Honours List its services to the nation should be acknowledged . |
| 27 | Japan would " monitor its exports to the EC as a whole in accordance with a forecast level of exports in 1999 of 1,230,000 [ cars ] , based on the assumption of demand in the EC of 15,100,000 " in that year . |
| 28 | Some of the prize designs being in Italian architecture and some in Gothic , your Committee particularly directed its inquiries to the question whether ( apart from considerations of taste ) either style had the advantage as to cheapness , commodiousness of arrangement , or facilities for light and ventilation . |
| 29 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said on many occasions , in his campaign for a free-trade agreement , that if Mexico can not send its products to the United States , it will send its people instead . |
| 30 | Currently , Sun Alliance provides such insurance through the Legal Protection Group , which advertises its services to the public . |