Example sentences of "[to-vb] its [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , 18 months was not long enough for the ‘ marked ’ lead to work its way through the local food chain . |
| 2 | This has given time for the ‘ marked ’ isotope to work its way through the environment much more thoroughly than in Turin . |
| 3 | Under his benign regime , Thatcherism as a model of social transformation will continue to work its way through the system . |
| 4 | Chao 's comment above about Chinese verbs having no voice refers to the fact that the form of the verb in Chinese does not change to indicate its relationship with the subject of the clause . |
| 5 | The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement . |
| 6 | In 1968 the Commission responded to requests from industry to indicate its view of the application of the competition rules to cooperation between enterprises by issuing a formal Notice . |
| 7 | Will the Prime Minister join me in reaffirming that no group either using or supporting violence will be allowed by any Government to bomb its way to the conference table ? |
| 8 | Among the painted sculptures from the first decade of his activity as an abstract artist are ‘ Midday ’ ( 1960 , MOMA , New York ) , ) , ‘ Prairie ’ ( 1967 , NGA , Washington ) and ‘ Early One Morning ’ ( 1962 ) which the Tate Gallery was persuaded to loan only after Caro had agreed to supervise its restoration at the end of the exhibition . |
| 9 | Charleston has continued to supervise its health in the US . |
| 10 | Concentrate on the A-measure and attempt to establish its relationship with the true area , both for card and plant subjects . |
| 11 | It would be easier , he thinks , at dawn , to fix his gaze steadily on one particular light and then to establish its place in the returning landscape . |
| 12 | By setting up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( CVR ) in April 1990 to investigate human rights abuses under the previous military regime [ see p. 37528 ] , the new government of President Aylwin attempted to establish its authority over the armed forces and , in particular , the C.-in-C. of the army and former President , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte . |
| 13 | His difficult relations with Roosevelt only confirmed his realist 's intuition that , beneath its idealistic rhetoric , the United States planned to establish its domination throughout the non-communist world . |
| 14 | For one team 's desperate desire to establish its worth in the scrums , Toks has had to play the price of a life confined to a wheelchair , a need for 24-hour-a-day attendants , and an almost total loss of his business and social aspirations . |
| 15 | While his explanations do not seem clearly to separate older arguments about managers under- or over-investing from the impact of the business-cycle stage itself , it does seem clear that investment at the right time , i.e. early in the product life-cycle , does lead to increased ROI if management is able to establish its product in the market place and control costs . |
| 16 | On the night of Oct. 4-5 small-scale fighting occurred in the capital , Kigali , but the RPF failed to consolidate its position beyond the north-eastern area . |
| 17 | The colony is now reluctantly but conclusively coming to accept its destiny under the nearer giant , China . |
| 18 | Like all mammals , dolphins need air to live , and the first act of life of a newly-born dolphin is to find its way to the surface to breathe . |
| 19 | Finally , there were merchants , the men who organized the markets that enabled the corn or flour or bread to find its way to the hungry , the wool to the weaver , fuller and dyer , the cloth to the man who needed a new costume , timber to the shipbuilder , timber and stone to the church . |
| 20 | Will he draw attention to the National Coal Board 's policy of closing pits , because when a pit is closed not only is low-sulphur coal lost in many cases , but the methane is then allowed to find its way to the surface ? |
| 21 | Her book is not a comprehensive history of English garden design , but a much chancier , though equally delightful narrative depending for its emphasis on what happened to find its way into the collection . |
| 22 | Weak on aesthetics it undoubtedly is , and yet curiously it is the only book on drama in education lucky enough to find its way into the impressive bibliography of the 1982 Calouste Gulbenkian publication on the Arts in Schools . |
| 23 | They can be formed on land near the sea , in shallow lakes or indeed anywhere where it is possible for a large volume of water to find its way into the volcanic vent . |
| 24 | Were such matter to find its way into the domestic blue-film market , the Board argued , it could have a very real tendency to deprave and corrupt , not just those of 16 , but of any age , who had been encouraged to view such material in private . |
| 25 | to keep ‘ important ’ issues off the agenda£ fails to take into account the diversity of media — magazines , journals , books , radio — which allow for an enormous amount of information to find its way into the public domain . |
| 26 | An exciting implication , by analogy with certain tumour cells that express Lewis-X and metastasize to the lungs and liver ( the two major systemic organs through which schistosomes migrate ) , is that this sugar provides a means for the parasite to find its way around the host . |
| 27 | Its jangly ‘ little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheeeeese ’ song was heard all summer long , and we used to find its nest among the ryegrass . |
| 28 | Expressed in this way , ‘ A Plan for Britain' was symptomatic of a mood of collectivist enthusiasm which seemed to find its opportunity in the shared perils and challenges of the early years of the war . |
| 29 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 30 | The planning movement of the 1930s was to find its apotheosis in the conduct of the war and the plans for post-war reconstruction in almost every field from social security to new town development . |