Example sentences of "to its [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that , following completion of the buy-out , both Newco and Target 's accounting periods must also correspond , especially if group relief is being relied upon to fund Newco 's liability to meet interest payments to its investors and provide it with tax-efficient servicing of interest on its debt . |
| 2 | It can find expression in one 's attitude to voluntary organizations , to the culture and traditions of the community , and in behaviour to its members when met in anonymous situations . |
| 3 | It can pass its calm temperament to its offspring when crossed with the more excitable Africander and Brahman . |
| 4 | If the military really believes in the justification of its exclusive stance , then let it stick to its guns and prosecute me for my actions . |
| 5 | Although blobspace can be located on any device or medium or across several , the field in a database record corresponding to a particular BLOB will always point to its location when interrogated by the database user . |
| 6 | Or by a robin quite determinedly attacking a bundle of red feathers that it has mistaken as an invader to its territory while ignoring an adjacent and perfectly good-looking stuffed robin , but lacking the all-important red feather flash . |
| 7 | Having entered this Christian society the individual had to conform to its beliefs and to demonstrate conformity by attendance at Church , especially at the main feasts of the ecclesiastical year . |
| 8 | The Tory party used that atmosphere to its advantage and combined it with its Organisational skills to produce a Conservative victory . |
| 9 | It would not be too misleading to say that it lives up to its name and represents a measure of the degree of " business " of the electron following that particular path . |
| 10 | Thanks to changes in the law , for the first time ever , TVTimes will more than live up to its name and publish all the television times of not only ITV and Channel 4 , but BBC 1 & BBC 2 as well as Satellite TV . |
| 11 | The Herald of Free Enterprise , which lived up to its name and capsized ; 190 people were killed , thanks to sloppiness in P & O ‘ from top to bottom ’ ; at the top , Jeffrey Stirling , chairman of P & O , was given a peerage . |
| 12 | The Northern Ireland Office was shaken to its foundations and accepted that it had to curtail drastically the activities of the Provisional IRA and be seen to move against the more violent gangsters in loyalist urban districts . |
| 13 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 14 | He had rung the bell twice , listened to its chime and heard a distant door open and the call of voices . |
| 15 | According to the latter system each country is given a number of votes in relation to its size and to gain a majority a proposal has to obtain fifty-four votes out of a total of seventy-six and be approved by at least eight member states . |
| 16 | For the project to be successful it was essential for each stool of the tripod which supported it — the government , the livestock owners and the Bank — to have an equal commitment to its success and to perceive the project in roughly the same terms . |
| 17 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 18 | 4:5–7 ) , but by its members being seen whenever possible in the community , contributing to its life and responding to its needs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A third suggestion is that the black and white stripes dazzle the lion when it gets very close to its prey and make it difficult for the killer to concentrate on its fast-moving victim . |
| 21 | NCA 's hangar and ramp complex at Hal Safi is capable of taking a wide variety of types , and the company undertakes a wide range of maintenance work in addition to its refurbishing and converting business . |
| 22 | Dougal cut the connection , returned the handset to its rest and switched off the tape recorder . |
| 23 | But as he spoke the figure jumped to its feet and ran to the edge of the shelf . |
| 24 | The torchbearer crossed the square to the woman at the stake , and the crowd rose to its feet and began reciting the Dies Irae . |
| 25 | When a reply arrived which simply said , ‘ The Private Secretary is commanded to express the thanks of The Queen for the kind message of congratulation which you have forwarded to Her Majesty ’ , the assembly rose to its feet and cheered . |
| 26 | One biologist recalls seeing a mother trying to lift a sick baby to its feet and screaming with frustration when she was unable to . |
| 27 | It recovered , struggled to its feet and galloped away up the canyon , riderless , trappings flying . |
| 28 | In fact , experience so far suggests that MDC 's approach to urban regeneration has been less cavalier than LDDC 's , reflecting its concern to minimise the social costs of development to its residents and to avoid projects likely to prejudice other areas of the city . |
| 29 | The American embassy in London reported on 23 November 1956 that " anti-American feeling is at a very high pitch and yet is accompanied by the somewhat contradictory but nevertheless complacent assumption that the U.S. is bound to come to its senses and pick up the check " . |
| 30 | So , until EMI comes to its senses and restores it to the catalogue , the Nuova Era will have to stand as an adequate , if less than ideal stopgap . |