Example sentences of "its [noun sg] [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 6 , 1989 , the government confirmed that it had agreed to buy another squadron of MiG-29 fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union , bringing its complement up to three squadrons . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is all a question of timing , and that summer afternoon in 1921 was the moment when the linear impulse started its break through to public awareness . |
| 3 | A parent company can surrender its ACT down to one or more 51% subsidiaries . |
| 4 | It has also returned to auctioneer Christies International , lifting its stake back to 5.7 per cent . |
| 5 | The overlap with the districts needs to be eradicated , it 's a black hole at the moment , every district can pass a its surplus on to another district , and indeed it would be the last district to prepare a district wide local plan that has to meet the residue of the Greater York requirement , it may maybe a good stimulus for the districts to get on with their local plans , but that 's not an planning way . |
| 6 | If the wind blows hard or an insect travelling at speed flies into the web , the bundles of thread in the glue globules unwind so that the filament can extend its length up to four times and still does not break . |
| 7 | Each of the Regiments could trace its history back to one of the units which had fought in Indo-China or Algeria during the previous century . |
| 8 | ‘ You can trace its history back to 1925 in various titles , and then it probably was paid for almost 100 per cent , ’ says Felton . |
| 9 | Rawcliffe can trace its history back to 1078 , the name of the village undergoing many changes in that time . |
| 10 | We have a special position in that the oldest regiment in the British Army is the Honourable Artillery Company , which traces its history back to 1537 , whereas the oldest regular units go back only to the middle of the 17th century . |
| 11 | Thanks to the likes of Pam , Sam , Merlin and Sherlock the robot has worked its way off the shopfloor , out of the realms of science fiction and into hospitals and railway stations , and is about to find its way on to one or two motorway flyovers . |
| 12 | But it too manages to find its way down to southern Africa . |
| 13 | Little Symonds Engineering rose 2p to 41p as JF Nash Holdings , a privately owned Midlands group , edged its shareholding up to 17.8 per cent . |