Example sentences of "its [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a debt-for-nature exchange would be the largest of its kind to date . |
| 2 | Were this competitive process to run its course to completion — in other words , were all decisions to become fully dovetailed — each participant would no longer be under pressure to improve the opportunities he is currently offering to the market , since no one else is offering more attractive opportunities [ … |
| 3 | Red Hot Television hopes to rush its case to court in an attempt to overturn the ban . |
| 4 | Prince Charles is Patron of the Trust and is full of praise for its activities to date . |
| 5 | In the Severn Estuary , N. lapillus reaches Sand Point above western-super-Mare ( Boyden et al. , 1977 ) but is confined to the lower shore up channel from Minehead , a distribution pattern that may reduce its exposure to water of reduced salinity . |
| 6 | Insurance group Sun Alliance was clouded by a £466m loss on the back of its exposure to mortgage indemnity insurance . |
| 7 | ICI 's strategy for 1992 is to continue concentrating on higher added value businesses and to reduce its exposure to commodity chemicals . |
| 8 | He congratulated the Association on its decision to affiliate to Congress and thereby join with half a million other workers and their families . |
| 9 | It was in fact my experience of working with the banks and institutions for the recapitalisation and reconstruction of John Brown which led me to think that the City is much maligned over its attitudes to industry and the accusation of short-termism is not justified . |
| 10 | We have set targets that , from a 1990 base , BP Chemicals will halve its hydrocarbon emissions to the atmosphere and reduce by two-thirds its emissions to water by 1997 . |
| 11 | Kew was criticized for its fidelity to bedding-out and Latin plant names . |
| 12 | It is somehow ironic that the major generalist agency owes its existence to wartime necessity . |
| 13 | The kinetic inductance owes its existence to inertia . |
| 14 | It had given its support to League sanctions against Italy , putting this view forward to its international contacts in the " Left Bureau . |
| 15 | The IRA , will no doubt , argue that it is taking its fight to mainland Britain to let the English feel the war at first hand ; to sicken the English and to cause them to pressurise their government to withdraw from Ireland . |
| 16 | This was to be remedied by Commodore Vanderbilt , the greatest merchant prince of the American railroad companies , president of the New York Central , whose family had started on its route to fortune with a steamboat line . |
| 17 | It is a fighting religion , which sends its enemies to death and hell ; only in the figure of Queen Bramimunde is there a hint of conversion , of a chance of salvation for the heathen . |
| 18 | One county , Kopparberg , has handed over most of its budget to family doctors and made them responsible for buying services from competing providers . |
| 19 | How Sun gets its resellers to toe this line remains to be seen . |
| 20 | However others in the audience thought it provocative and exciting in its willingness to zone in on what mainstream society sees as the dark underbelly of homosexual life . |
| 21 | This was the constant complaint of Arthur Young , among others , and the great sociologist Max Weber later put its link to consumption very clearly . |
| 22 | Indeed , the suffragette movement and its link to fascism represented one kind of genteel revolt by spirited upper-middle-class women against the stultifying effects of the Victorian ethic of limiting the role of respectable ladies to ornaments in the social round . |
| 23 | Thus , while a two child family would have begun paying income tax at about average earnings in the mid-1950s , its liability to income tax began at about half average earnings by the mid-1970s . |
| 24 | We feel very strongly about freedom of expression , so when [ in 1989 ] the NEA withdrew its grant to Artist 's Space , within forty-eight hours we gave them $10,000 to replace it . |
| 25 | In a real disease state rather than an artificial provocation , it is necessary to examine very carefully the animal 's disease behaviour and then its response to treatment . |
| 26 | Abrogation of this p53 pathway is the most common specific alteration in human cancer , and may be central to the progression of the disease and to its response to treatment by radiation and chemotherapeutic drugs . |
| 27 | The stomach 's adaptive capacity may alter its response to alcohol , but , there are few studies that have considered this problem . |
| 28 | The ruling class , by contrast , was ruthless and cynical in its resort to violence . |
| 29 | Secondly , the advantage that internal organization possesses in certain circumstances turns on its recourse to authority as a means of eliminating information asymmetry or terminating any prolonged wrangling between employees . |
| 30 | It was Anderson in his Manchester pamphlet who most conspicuously at this early stage of the antislavery campaign raised the free-labour argument and implicitly defined its appropriateness to man 's nature . |