Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game of tables skittles , or to use its traditional name ‘ Devil Among the Tailors ’ , is a pub game which originated in London in 1783 . |
| 2 | The National Trust ( or to use its full name , the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty ) was founded in 1895 . |
| 3 | If we are to argue design 's social significance or to model its social relations this must be based on our understanding , our explicit , sharable and imperfect understanding as to what " design " is and what design does . |
| 4 | With major investments , a study of the corporate-strategy literature suggests that a company will indulge in investment in order either to maintain or to improve its competitive position . |
| 5 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 6 | Why might a bank with a given amount of liquid assets be more willing to expand its mortgage loans for house purchase than to expand its personal loans for the purchase of consumer goods ? |
| 7 | This evidence of strength used by a small country for peaceful purposes and to promote its own self-sufficiency would , he warned , undermine the power of " imperialism " and lay Libya open to attack , especially by the United States . |
| 8 | Germany 's position on the developmental ‘ gap ’ between East and West Europe , between the feudal and industrial worlds , meant that Germany was subject to fear of Western competition and envy of Western colonial markets ; the proximity of poorly developed lands to the East gave Germany the opportunity to rectify its lack of colonial holdings and to sink its internal problems in external conquest . |
| 9 | On Sept. 20 , following discussions in Paris , the World Bank 's India consortium promised $6,700 million in aid to India to help with its balance of payments crisis and to support its economic reforms . |
| 10 | The down hairs are the ones closest to the skin and it is their primary task to keep the animal warm and to conserve its precious body heat . |
| 11 | AUDREY Segal was a remarkable woman who overcame her disabilities — she was confined to a wheelchair for 23 years after contracting a virus in Morocco — to invent and develop careers education in this country , and to remain its foremost exponent for more than 20 years . |
| 12 | Today , visitors are warmly welcomed to share Crete 's ancient history and to enjoy its breathtaking landscapes of 8000-foot mountains , deep valleys , extensive beaches , sparkling bays and lively resorts . |
| 13 | The Government 's accumulated fiscal surpluses will then be available both to revive an economy which has had the excess heat taken out of it during 1989/90 and to restore its electoral fortunes . |
| 14 | A party congress in January 1991 was required to give final approval to the changes , designed to move the party towards social democracy and to increase its electoral support . |
| 15 | Its significance rested upon its ability to censure the High Authority and to demand its collective resignation , a blunt sanction that was never to be applied . |
| 16 | First , the premise is that natural justice stemmed from a judicial desire to maintain control over adjudication and to impose its own procedures on those subject to its control . |
| 17 | Its policy is to meet or exceed all applicable regulations , and to set its own standards where no relevant government standards exist . |
| 18 | Empathizing as far as possible with his hosts , the anthropological research worker seeks to seize the essence of life around him and to incarnate its animating spirit . |
| 19 | The signals coming from Spaak and others may in the end have led Britain to underestimate the determination of the Six and to overevaluate its own ability to pull the OEEC states , including the Six , round to its own viewpoint . |
| 20 | Pre-1575 Byrd is unevenly represented on record , and to experience its various facets you will have to assemble many scattered performances . |
| 21 | He called upon the North to close its nuclear reprocessing and enrichment facilities and to submit its nuclear programme to international inspection . |
| 22 | Earlier this year I reported in this column the Institute 's decision to terminate its contract with the Institute of Purchasing and Supply and to form its own Secretariat . |
| 23 | And to mark its new status , a visitor of sufficient rank . |
| 24 | And to mark its 80th anniversary , the company has launched Louis Philippe — a collection inspired by the elegant furniture of mid-19th-century France . |
| 25 | The place was hardly cordoned by guards , as if to emphasize its innocuous character . |
| 26 | In a further move designed to reassert its sovereign status [ see p. 38852 ] , the conference also reiterated its decision to restore the country 's name before 1971 , the Republic of Congo , and to adopt its former flag , motto and national anthem [ see p. 39039 ] . |
| 27 | UPTAKE into glial cells helps to terminate glutamate 's neurotransmitter action and to keep its extracellular concentration , [ Glu ] o , below neurotoxic levels . |
| 28 | It is essential for the local and family historian to grasp this basic demographic information and to understand its profound consequences for the nature of English society . |
| 29 | It is important to distinguish work of this kind , and to emphasize its possible value , by comparison with that narrowest version of the social conditions of art ( often called ‘ sociologism ’ or ‘ sociological relativism ’ ) , which is more commonly associated with Marxism . |
| 30 | Although the first British atomic bomb had only just been tested a month before at Monte Bello Island off the north-west coast of Australia , the British government , under Churchill 's leadership , decided remarkably quickly in December to follow the American lead and to build its own hydrogen bomb as soon as possible . |