Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) . |
| 2 | It is a spiritual community which owes its unity to common beliefs and a common attitude to life , far more than to any uniformity of physical type . |
| 3 | Many other breeds have white faces , too , but not necessarily from Hereford or Simmental blood , though the Kazakh Whiteheaded ( USSR ) owes its origins to imported Herefords crossed with the native Kazakh in the 1920s , while the Canadian black or red Hays Converter 's white face can be traced to its Hereford origins in the early 1950s . |
| 4 | The Great Barrier Reef , which hugs the north-east shore of Australia for 2000 kilometres , owes its existence to millions of tiny animals called coral polyps . |
| 5 | Frelimo in Mozambique is one example of a movement which owes its success to cold war tensions . |
| 6 | Cawsand owes its survival to one wide-awake villager . |
| 7 | In fact almost every large Greek bronze we have owes its survival to some accident which sequestered it in antiquity : a shipwreck , a fall of rock . |
| 8 | However much the relative values of particular substances vary from one culture to another , each one owes its status to physical attributes . |
| 9 | Mercedes-Benz , Siemens and Bayer do not owe their success to the Bundesbank : the Bundesbank owes its strength to German industrial progress . |
| 10 | Assurances Generales de France will boost its share to 18 per cent from 5 per cent , while Credit Lyonnais will rise to 18 per cent from 10 per cent . |
| 11 | On Jan. 25 Belgium announced that it was likely to withdraw its 25,000 troops based in West Germany and underlined its opposition to any further increase in NATO 's defence budget . |
| 12 | THE National Institute of Economic and Social Research , a leading economic think-tank , has added its voice to those urging the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , not to raise taxes in his March Budget . |
| 13 | At least the government can answer those who say its attitude to retroactive legislation is inconsistent . |
| 14 | The agreement was less favourable to Cuba than previous agreements , with the Soviet Union ending its commitment to preferential trade terms . |
| 15 | The Working Party has confined its considerations to high-bay warehouses over 10 metres high . |
| 16 | But Mr. Thornton forcefully submits that no more is required to sustain the plea than that the court before whom the defendant had previously been charged should have decided his guilt , whether by the court , where it is the tribunal of fact , announcing its decision to that effect , by the return of a guilty verdict by the jury or by the ‘ acceptance ’ of a plea of guilty . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is precisely from this ‘ being aware of having experience ’ and being able both to communicate its features to another and to distinguish between oneself as experiencing agent and another 's reported experiences that the prime features of humanity arise . |
| 18 | an elaborate algorithm which builds a directed graph of concepts incrementally , and which can decide where to concentrate its effort to best effect . |
| 19 | Yesterday it emerged that EMAP had lifted its stake to 10.3 per cent , buying a further 200,000 shares . |
| 20 | London Securities , the property to venture capital business , has lifted its shareholding to 6.3 per cent , buying 445,000 shares . |
| 21 | By this means the church is preserved from ‘ analysis paralysis ’ , with the church curtailing its activities and returning its plans to cold storage while it contemplates its navel . |
| 22 | STRONG support for research on human embryos up to 14 days old came from the Medical Research Council yesterday , which adds its voice to that of the Royal Society , the Royal Colleges , and the medical charities opposing a ban . |
| 23 | It used to be called Austin-Morris but changed its name to British Leyland and then Rover . |
| 24 | It changed its name to Green , was taken up by fashionable and powerful people and now everyone claims to be Green . |
| 25 | Some such philosophers say that one notices that something is white through noticing its resemblance to other things . |
| 26 | MERCURY Communications , the new British telecommunications company , is running into problems launching its rival to British Telecom 's trunk lines . |
| 27 | Suffice it to say that in this field voluntary effort has long played a considerable part and there are signs that it intends to increase its contribution to this field . |
| 28 | Thereafter , it may be looking to increase its stake to 29.99 per cent by purchases pursuant to the tender offer which , as mentioned above , are exempt from the SARs . |
| 29 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 30 | The company expects to increase its staff to 45 from 33 by mid-1993 , and is buying additional floorspace at its offices in Deak Ter , Budapest . |