Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central keep dates from the early twelfth century but concentric walling with mural towers was added during the Middle Ages , bringing its fortification up to date ( 526 ) . |
| 2 | The police retrieved the letter in a dawn raid on the Manchester reporter 's hotel room and traced its progress back to Murray . |
| 3 | For 113 years Somerville College , Oxford , has limited its entry strictly to women only . |
| 4 | was one of the team involved in the construction of the Grain Terminal at Ipswich — from its conception through to commissioning . |
| 5 | All this may be essential for a fish that would have problems turning its mouth around to defence . |
| 6 | It is a complex and profound tour de force which carried much of its weight over to radio in Cleverdon 's adaptation and production . |
| 7 | It was bi-pod mounted , which kept its weight down to 11kg/25lb , so increasing its mobility . |
| 8 | At the same time , there was pressing new business : the setting up of a provisional state in North Africa , preparation for its transfer back to France , supervision of the French war effort , and planning for postwar reconstruction . |
| 9 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 10 | If the organic potatoes come from Egypt , and if cash-crop farming there is nudging its population closer to poverty , should we actually be eating them ? |
| 11 | Similar , though slightly more muted , approval was given to the propositions on Christian education , discussed from 17 to 19 November , and on the latter date the Council turned its attention briefly to recommendations to simplify marriage legislation and end discrimination against non-Catholic partners in mixed marriages . |
| 12 | English law … has directed its attention not to ownership , but to possession , or , as it is called in the case of land , seisin . |
| 13 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 14 | GPG is changing its name back to Guinness Peat Group . |
| 15 | The collision happened as the Greenpeace boat tried to follow the Akatsuki Maru on its voyage back to Japan with 1.7 tons of plutonium loaded in Cherbourg , France , on Saturday . |
| 16 | In late July and early August , he was assigned the sombre task of accompanying the body of Gerda Taro in its journey back to France . |
| 17 | In 1715 , in return for writing off two years of annuity payments worth something over £1 million , the government permitted it a fresh share issue which brought its capital up to £10 million , about half of the entire joint-stock capital in the country . |
| 18 | It owes its success entirely to recommendations from one reader to another . |
| 19 | Up to the present time , the study of language and its relation both to processes involved in language performance and to processes underlying the activity of reasoning have been fragmented , split into the separate disciplines of linguistics , artificial intelligence , pragmatics ( the study of human communication ) , and psychology , each with their own theoretical models of language or aspects of language use . |
| 20 | Foucault traces its history back to Husserl 's Cartesian Meditations ( 1929 ) and the Crisis of the European Sciences ( 1936 ) — in which Husserl ‘ posed the question of the relations between the ‘ Western ’ project of a universal deployment of reason , [ and ] the positivity of the sciences and the radicality of philosophy' . |
| 21 | True , the famous Lucia di Lammermoor with Callas visited Berlin , and the Salzburg Ring found its way briefly to New York ; but Karajan 's work in the opera-house since 1950 was largely confined to Salzburg , Vienna , and , for a number of years , Milan . |
| 22 | Farm workers are an ageing labour force as the cohort from the days when they were more numerous gradually works its way through to retirement . |
| 23 | That is an essential part of the campaign to ensure that our beef , which is the world 's best , finds its way on to tables across the world . |
| 24 | Although Interactive Systems Corp products will decline as competitive offerings now that the company has been incorporated into SunSoft Inc , Unix-on-Intel house , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , is likely to face increasingly stiff competition on its turf from the likes of SunSoft , with its Solaris-on-Intel play , Unix System Labs Inc/Univel Inc , which is already proclaiming great things for its cut-down , shrink-wrapped Destiny desktop and NeXT Computer Inc 's NextStep environment , if it ever finds its way on to Compaq Computer Corp or any other machines . |
| 25 | From the tour a distressing evening found its way on to TV screens . |
| 26 | In the censorship scale obscene literature might be rated as less serious than racist literature but both would have to defer to seditious literature which normally does not find its way on to library shelves . |
| 27 | This is a distinctly unromantic sounding but buoyant group which has so far twirled its way round to records . |
| 28 | A deeply rutted track , it crunches its way up to Monket House Crags , skips over a V in the skyline , and up some more . |
| 29 | From the south the route leaves Ulverston near Morecambe Bay and makes its way up to Coniston Water where there 's some wonderful lakeside walking . |
| 30 | As this summer , even hotter and drier than the last , worked its way up to August , Robert found he had developed a rich repertoire of twitches and guilty tics . |