Example sentences of "[vb past] its [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A messenger he had employed to take a letter to France revealed its contents to the king . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The still-rarefied atmosphere received a heavy blast of different air as the school opened its gates to the bulging generation of girls born just after the war and a working class bound for higher educational achievements than it had ever had within its reach . |
| 6 | Britain 's best known dogs home opened its doors to the public yesterday after a four-day break . |
| 7 | And when , in 1983 , The Guggenheim Museum opened its doors to the ‘ return of painting ’ with an exhibition devoted to Transavanguardia , works by the ‘ 3Cs ’ ( Chia , Cucchi and Clemente ) , were snapped up at prices in excess of $50,000 . |
| 8 | On 7 December 1967 the Apple Boutique at London 's 94 Baker Street opened its doors to the world , selling all the bright colours and bamboozling gaudiness of that most extraordinary period in the history of fashion . |
| 9 | THE Ulster Cancer Foundation 's annual art exhibition and sale opened its doors to the public yesterday . |
| 10 | In Bournemouth , Mummies Day this year was at Easter , for that 's when a breathtaking new exhibition on the Royal Mummies of Ancient Egypt , opened its doors to the public . |
| 11 | Hoddesdon depot opened its doors to the St John Ambulance in March when they offered their conference room for a training course as part of the organisation 's ‘ Breath of Life Week ’ . |
| 12 | West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl broke off his visit to Poland on Friday and flew home to deal with a dramatic political situation after East Germany opened its borders to the West . |
| 13 | What we know of the family shows that it enjoyed its privileges to the full , and shared a positive and happy lifestyle , without hardship , yet without vaunted excess — a balanced lifestyle , despite his indispositions . |
| 14 | A long time in the past the Yek had been nomads , and even though the principal cities of the Khanate were constructed from stone , the interior decoration of many of the principal houses owed its origins to the heritage of the tent . |
| 15 | The Shield alerted its readers to the great possibilities opened up to women by the growing focus on hygiene . |
| 16 | It took its products to the southern USA , where lightweight machinery ( in which it then specialised ) was particularly suitable because soil conditions were sandier and so easier to work . |
| 17 | It could have recognised Bosnia 's independence and offered its services to the new state , turning its back on Serbia . |
| 18 | On 7 August 1936 the NAC put its proposals to the Labour Party , the Communist Party and the Co-operative Party , but received no support . |
| 19 | Luckily , it confined its attentions to the goldfish pond while I balanced the relative merits of a net against the highly illegal option of a catapult . |
| 20 | Orde , of Jedburgh , yesterday outlined its grievances to the Roxburgh and Berwickshire MP , Archy Kirkwood , who is to ask the Prime Minister for increased Government support for the manufacturing sector . |
| 21 | And he conducted its meetings to the sound of his guitar , singing to his fellow-students suitable — and unsuitable ! — songs and ditties . |
| 22 | According to Soviet commentaries the United States ' commitment to these bases underlay its warnings to the ASEAN countries against pursuing the idea of a nuclear-free zone in Southeast Asia . |
| 23 | As the hotel closed its doors to the public in 1935 these records will provide a first glimpse of the interior of this remarkable Grade-One Listed building for most visitors to the museum . |
| 24 | In 1977 the Skyfame Aircraft Museum closed its doors to the public for the last time and virtually all the aircraft in the collection were transferred to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford in one of the most momentous rescue and re-site operations ever undertaken . |
| 25 | Under the 1982 rule change member firms could not be owned by a single non-member and could not therefore become part of wider groupings — a fact which meant that the London exchange had , in some senses , closed its doors to the rest of the international community . |
| 26 | Branding Lacidar as ‘ the black Fidel ’ it closed its markets to the islands ' main exports — sugar and coffee . |