Example sentences of "[noun] to its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You hit the bottom of the valley , wait for the arms to stop shaking from the effort of holding the bike 's front wheel to its course and take on food from the station de ravitaillement . |
| 2 | The evident plagiarism which underlay her ‘ prodigious ’ contributions to polymer science was too obvious to require special demonstration except to the inquiring scientific minds of the committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry which elected Elena Ceauşescu to its membership . |
| 3 | Glenn has frequently been for training in one of the world 's most deadly martial arts to its home in Malaysia , where he became the only non-Malay , non-Muslim to reach the Jurulatih , or ‘ expert in technique ’ grade . |
| 4 | Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf . |
| 5 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 6 | House broker Smith New Court is said to have been promoting the stock to its clients . |
| 7 | The Spires and Shires tour company has added a new landmark to its sightseeing tour of Oxford . |
| 8 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 9 | The frog had brought some other young frogs to its spot among the leaves at the edge of the world of the flower . |
| 10 | THE Jacqueline Annis School of Dancing received a boost to its charity show , being staged at the Clacton County High School on March 12 and 13 . |
| 11 | Meanwhile Iran had achieved a considerable boost to its morale : many foreign commentators believed that , with this achievement under their belts and the onus on Iraq to winkle the Iranians out of Fao , the war was now going Iran 's way . |
| 12 | Frelimo gave a major boost to its drive for peace on Aug. 16 , when its central committee unanimously endorsed the scheduling of multiparty elections in 1991 and the effective abandonment of the one-party state [ see p. 37643 ; 37843-44 ] . |
| 13 | In 1979 , the DUP received a major boost to its fortunes when it gained two more Westminster MPs . |
| 14 | Although the House of Lords in Anisminic affirmed the continued existence of non-jurisdictional errors of law , we have seen that certain other judges are in favour of pushing the Anisminic reasoning to its limit and discarding the dichotomy . |
| 15 | Stephen Koss 's verdict on the political press during the twentieth century applies with equal force to its impact on the operation of criminal justice : |
| 16 | For manufactured goods , Malaysia has relied heavily on attracting foreigners to its Export processing Zones ( see below ) and letting them fight it out in the exports markets with the minimum of intervention . |
| 17 | From the group 's perspective , it desires to be involved where it can influence the final shape of a policy so that it maximizes the benefits and minimizes the losses to its members . |
| 18 | There it posed , alert , head jerking ; coral red legs ; a metallic sheen to its feathers : bright blue and green , white and orange . |
| 19 | The peer group gives out clear signals to its members both about style and about fundamental values and perspectives . |
| 20 | The school mentioned earlier which only allowed smoking in the staffroom was sending inconsistent signals to its pupils . |
| 21 | By contrast , the Co-operative Wholesale Agency , proposed in a report to a Co-operative Conference held in June 1851 in Manchester , was to pay one half of the net profits not as a bonus to its employees but as dividends to co-operative retail stores on their purchases from the Agency . |
| 22 | One way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the present value of the investment and to compare that with the present cost . |
| 23 | A second way of comparing the expected yield of an investment to its cost is to calculate the investment 's expected rate of return and to compare this with the prevailing rate of interest . |
| 24 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties dogging other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 25 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties faced by other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 26 | Cypress attributed its upswing to its restructuring efforts , blaming a negative impact on revenues in part on Sun Microsystems Inc 's delayed design-in decision on HyperSparc , Cypress ' Viking competitor . |
| 27 | As experts in specialist investment , pensions and life assurance this continuing success has meant that Clerical Medical has paid bonuses to its with-profits policyholders for every year since 1824 . |
| 28 | As experts in specialist investment , pensions and life assurance , this continuing success has meant that Clerical Medical has paid bonuses to its with-profits policyholders since 1824 . |
| 29 | SunPro says it intends to distribute the product at some stage as an add-on to its Sparc works Professional C++ development environment . |
| 30 | Stockton Twinning Association needs new blood to extend the town 's hand of friendship to its twin town of Asnieres-sur-Seine , on the northern outskirts of Paris . |