Example sentences of "[vb base] to its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patination of the wood and the delightful patchwork of sheet-iron repairs testify to its many years of service . |
| 2 | There are many criticisms made of pluralism by writers who object to its normative implications , and some of these , as we argue in Chapter 5 , give a distinctly strawlike quality to their description of their target . |
| 3 | Whenever one organism promotes the fitness of another at its own expense and without reciprocal benefit to itself or benefit to its own genes present in the recipient it has perforce performed an act of induced altruism . |
| 4 | But the ethos of the system and the reality of democratic centralism lend to its political machinations a different flavour and bias from that found in any system plausibly termed pluralistic . |
| 5 | As an NPT signatory , North Korea continues to violate flagrantly the IAEA safeguards by repeatedly denying inspectors access to its nuclear facilities . |
| 6 | The embalming had held out ; but so numerous were the numbers of visitors that the body began to decay , and reports of 1711 , 1723 and 1773 all allude to its degenerate state . |
| 7 | It would be sad to see all your good work wasted , and the place revert to its former wilderness . |
| 8 | A complex of private houses and flats will be built between Victoria Square and a proposed ‘ town square ’ , which is earmarked for the seaward end of Victoria Road , which will in turn revert to its ancient name of The Horseshoe . |
| 9 | ‘ Every system of production tends to discover punishments which correspond to its productive relationships ’ ( 1939 : 5 ) . |
| 10 | The Board is very aware of the contribution that the management and staff make to its ongoing success . |
| 11 | However , where a company establishes itself in another member state all the rules of that member state which Apply to its own nationals apply equally to that company . |
| 12 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 13 | Once ejaculation and orgasm have been achieved by the man his penis will more or less rapidly return to its former size . |
| 14 | It will be evident in the life of the whole school community , and in the various elements which contribute to its distinctive ethos e.g. the quality of relationships , shared liturgy , community service , differing forms of retreat and religious experience , and , above all , in the witness of practising Catholics , both staff and pupils alike . |
| 15 | The initial image of fire and light clarifying the sight/understanding and consuming the whole being is left behind in a series of more abstract metaphors which relate to its dynamic quality drawing men to its source . |
| 16 | How do you arrange what you have to its best advantage ? |
| 17 | They can be the ‘ power behind the throne– , using what power they have to its fullest potential : analysing situations , forming appropriate alliances and putting messages over in a palatable way to the right audience . |
| 18 | The job of the elder to stand by that child and , and see to its Christian nurture thereafter . |
| 19 | Since we already know that unc is equivalent to ½'we; can say that we reduce to its lowest term ½ Do you remember from page 21 the quick way of doing this type of division question ? unc You can use the same method to reduce fractions to their lowest terms , by splitting each part into its factors . |
| 20 | The Autocracy in Russia , following 1905 , increasingly faced new challenges and a growing opposition that lead to its eventual downfall . |