Example sentences of "this [noun] to its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 2 | The Institute 's initiative in providing this service to its members has the support of the Review Panel and the Department of Trade and Industry , as well as the Auditing Practices Board and the Accounting Standards Board . |
| 3 | It is a national disgrace , the U K is the only country in Europe to deny this facility to its citizens . |
| 4 | Tonight he 'd take their condescension without argument , he thought , more confident by the day that something was coming that would rock this Tower to its foundations . |
| 5 | What we have agreed not to accept are the sort of damaging laws that nearly brought this country to its knees when we last had a Labour Government . |
| 6 | Rampant inflation , excessive public expenditure , lack of private investment because of ex excessive tax burdens , and to top it all , an industrial relations policy that brought this country to its knees , making it the subject of derision throughout the world . |
| 7 | Yesterday the shop stewards ' convener , John Kydd , promised : ‘ We can bring this company to its knees ; it is a choice the company has to make . |
| 8 | A second series of influential studies that gave support to the model presented in chapter 4 — this time to its prediction that only unanticipated changes in aggregate demand have real output effects — were those of Barro ( 1977a , 1978a ; see also Barro and Rush , 1980 ) . |