Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] to its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 2 | holds on to its water . |
| 3 | It has been suggested ( Walker , 1982 , p. 11 ) that the popularity of ‘ community care , owes much to its flexibility and adaptability — the term can be used to describe a wide range of institutions and services ( and , critics would add , the lack of them too ) . |
| 4 | The quality of even our grandest scenery owes much to its intimacy of scale . |
| 5 | The art owes much to its predecessor , kung fu , which was the root of its modern development . |
| 6 | Birmingham 's popularity with meeting planners owes much to its ease of accesses from all parts of the UK and Europe . |
| 7 | The accuracy of the tablet is matched to the Spectrum , the grid inside the tablet 's surface consists of a wire mesh 176 by 256 , so the movement of the stylus on the screen corresponds exactly to its motion on the surface of the Grafpad . |
| 8 | A rich , moist soil adds further to its comfort though it should not be planted with less virile subject . |
| 9 | Sure , with 192 instrument voices , 10 drum kits , 28 note polyphony , 16 part multi-timbrality and digital reverb , it lives up to its description better than most of its competitors . |
| 10 | Hence , their views , based as they are on personal first-hand experiences , form an important body of evidence about whether or to what extent Britain lives up to its reputation as a liberal democratic country . |
| 11 | I love ‘ gung-ho ’ blasting games , and Total Carnage lives up to its name . |
| 12 | Museo Nacional Reina Sofía at last lives up to its name |
| 13 | The position of the Belvedere ensures this hotel most certainly lives up to its name , affording some quite beautiful views of brilliant Lake Maggiore and the enchanting Borromean islands sitting in its centre . |
| 14 | It lives up to its name — small and pretty . |
| 15 | It would not be too misleading to say that it lives up to its name and represents a measure of the degree of " business " of the electron following that particular path . |
| 16 | Lotus Development Corp has lured Cognos Inc president Jeffrey Papows over to its side to run its Notes Division as vice-president , a newly created post reporting to John Landry and June Rokoff who head the company 's development programme ; meanwhile Unix veteran Larry Crume , who had been running Lotus 's mobile computing interests , has been re-assigned to run the cc:Mail line . |
| 17 | After passing through Enville the Way wanders through the lovely old village of Kinver and climbs up to its end on the sandstone ridge of Kinver Edge . |
| 18 | Only if the city wakes up to its need to shore up its bank of knowhow , will its superiority in Europe be secure , he suggests . |
| 19 | It is very unlikely that any opposition party will win an election until it convinces the electorate that it has an economic policy which is internally coherent and a defence policy which measures up to its name . |
| 20 | This is not the case however when the to infinitive is subject : although one still understands that the infinitive event is realized , there is nothing in such uses which specifies what leads up to its realization . |
| 21 | However , Chandrasekhar ( 1931 ) deduced that the gravitational self-attraction of a sufficiently heavy star ( ) leads inevitably to its collapse to a point . |
| 22 | The most startling thing about fresh pineapple is quite how much acid balances the sweetness , something which contributes enormously to its enjoyment and versatility . |
| 23 | Throughout its early life , the calf stays close to its mother , positioning itself above the midline and forward of her dorsal fin . |
| 24 | By the second year the young orang is becoming more independent , though it still keeps close to its mother . |
| 25 | When the interceptor gets close to its target , it is used as a second radar receiver . |
| 26 | It keeps well to its focus on the individual 's relationship to society , and sustains the comparisons . |
| 27 | The bee then kneads the pollen into these baskets with its middle legs , moulding it around the slender peg that projects from each of them , so that when it flies back to its nest after a successful trip , it has a brilliant yellow button of food attached to each thigh . |
| 28 | Capenhurst 's involvement in the exercise goes back to its launch five years ago and the Company has given advice and training to scores of youngsters taking part . |
| 29 | It is at zero in the nuclear war band and rises steeply to its peak over the guerrilla war and terrorist bands . |
| 30 | The film cuts from the Black man writing on the blackboard to the grotesque ‘ nigger minstrel'-style head of a Guy , which , as if it had been lynched and hung , falls ominously to its chest . |