Example sentences of "be [vb pp] to its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BUGATTI motor boat found resting in mud in France is to be flown to its wealthy owner in California next month , 10 years after work began on restoring it at a Thames boatyard . |
| 2 | The macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form is that it is just such another structure ; that the structural change lies in making labour the employer of capital rather than , as at present capital the employer of labour ; that such a change would fuse the interests of ownership and labour , interests which so long as they remain separate must also remain ultimately opposed ; and that , because relations among co-operatives and between producers and providers on the one hand , and consumers and users on the other would be determined by the operation of a free competitive market , the workers in each co-operative will be exposed to its imperative discipline . |
| 3 | Increases in applied voltage must be accompanied by proportional increases in phase resistance if the winding current is to be limited to its rated value when the motor is stationary . |
| 4 | Coleridge said that Shakespeare was ‘ miriadminded ’ , but the term can also be applied to its gifted originator , too . |
| 5 | These rules mean that it might benefit the owner of a topography right for him to sit on that right until such a time as it can be exploited to its full potential as long as this is done a reasonable period before the 15 years have expired . |
| 6 | This can be attributed to its various physical properties . |
| 7 | The impact of the polymerase chain reaction can be attributed to its practical simplicity and to its speed , sensitivity , and specificity . |
| 8 | Alliance 's revival can be attributed to its vigorous , straight-from-the-shoulder leadership , articulating a progressive pro-union approach which is so lacking elsewhere . |
| 9 | The whole system requires several people to operate it if it is to be used to its full capacity . |
| 10 | Can you tell me if there has been a supplementary update disk issued to enable KX-P1124i to be used to its full potential . |
| 11 | The world 's rarest horse , Equus przewalskii , is set to be reintroduced to its Mongolian homeland after a successful captive breeding programme , which has produced around 1,000 of the animals . |
| 12 | Now the Queen 's household cavalry have offered to look after the horse and it 'll be transported to its new home early next year . |
| 13 | It was a sort of burnt orange colour with a large hole cut at the back so that the lean old arse Nigel hated so much could be shown to its full advantage . |
| 14 | But generally your presentation must be reduced to its bare essentials before giving it . |
| 15 | The horse should be suited to its intended purpose and the experience of its rider . |
| 16 | But the very word ‘ heresy ’ is consistently misused , and must be restored to its correct perspective . |
| 17 | Indeed , as the locomotive will have to be restored to its current green livery before being returned to the National Railway Museum the prospects for a change are not high . |
| 18 | This ensures that the LIFESPAN system can be restored to its previous state in the unlikely event of a failure during validation . |
| 19 | Today , the electronic typewriter with its daisy-wheel printer , and the personal computer with its ink jet dot-matrix printer , have probably put an end to developments in handwriting , although many people are now studying and practising the art of good penmanship , and the term a ‘ fine Italian hand ’ may yet be restored to its original meaning . |
| 20 | The opportunity has not been missed to point unfavourably at the controversial plans for the Bode Museum in Berlin which , it seems , will not now be restored to its original appearance as when built for Kaiser Friedrich in 1897–1904 . |
| 21 | The land was then to be restored to its original owners on the payment of its value in installments . |
| 22 | And on Marx 's notion of the class struggle , Darlington adds : No support here then for the necessity of the class war between proletariat and bourgeoisie , to be fought to its revolutionary finish . |
| 23 | Their line is that the CPP is in a state of shock and will eventually be reconciled to its new position . |
| 24 | The approach in this chapter will be largely ahistorical and asocial , focusing on the properties of things in themselves , while in chapter 7 the artefact will be returned to its historical context in order to examine how its various potential social attributes are actually realized in diverse circumstances . |
| 25 | Like me , you know the Abbe Gerard was murdered , and you are looking for that book , a gift from our royal master which , by rights , should now be returned to its proper owner . ’ |
| 26 | Metal hardened by deformation can be returned to its initial soft condition by ‘ annealing ’ , that is to say by heating it until total or partial recrystallization occurs , in which case most of the excess dislocations vanish . |
| 27 | When it was loaned for ‘ The Treasure Houses of Britain' exhibition in Washington , it was assumed that , like all the other works of art on show , it would be returned to its original setting . |
| 28 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 29 | On each jubilee year all land would be returned to its original owner . |
| 30 | The principle which underlay the concept of Jubilee , ( that all land alienated during the preceding fifty years was to be returned to its original owner or his descendants ) was that each family should not find itself in a position in which it was permanently barred from owning land , the vital productive asset in that economy . |