Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the leading present-day authority on this sector , Professor Supple , it was over the course of the eighteenth century that it assumed its modern form and structure , with agencies and branches , inter-company coordination of premium rates and policy conditions , and averaging of claims . |
| 2 | The reason why the Free Church was concerned with the political activities of some of its members was that it saw its main purposes as evangelism and the servicing of church life . |
| 3 | It was thus that it acquired its unique form : 35 km long and about 1.6 km wide with steep sides sloping to a flat bed . |
| 4 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 5 | Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter . |
| 6 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 7 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 8 | The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized . |
| 9 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 10 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 11 | Robert Luterell , younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Luterell , who commissioned the famous Luterell Psalter , gave his house called ‘ the Gannoc ’ on St. Peter 's Street for use as a school , and it had its own chapel of St. Mary . |
| 12 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 13 | The Ship slowed its fall and drifted down across the scrublands until it met its own shadow . |
| 14 | From that time on , the photosynthesizing organisms emerged as the predominant life forms , and the atmosphere was altered by the increasing out-pouring of oxygen , until it reached its present state . |
| 15 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 16 | But you would still not be surprised if it ended its useful life after ten years or so of daily use . |
| 17 | The idea of New Towns has a long pedigree , but it received its twentieth-century fillip through the garden city movement ( Osborn and Whittick , 1963 ) . |
| 18 | But it had its positive aspects . |
| 19 | And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them . |
| 20 | But it gave its inner-city policy a new direction by stressing the role of private enterprise in economic regeneration . |
| 21 | The Pru 's ‘ transparent ’ financial reporting has been dominating the headlines recently since it restated its 1991 life and pensions accounts under the accruals basis . |
| 22 | They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas , and never since it received its new mistress . |
| 23 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 24 | The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer . |
| 25 | The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer . |
| 26 | The bone which in lizards conducts sound from the ear-drum to the inner ear originated as the hind border of a gill slit in a fish , and then became a strut bracing the jaw articulation to the skull , before it acquired its present function . |
| 27 | Indeed , initially favoured by the government to soak up excess cereal production , it was one which linked agricultural , manufacturing and commercial capitalism before it reached its proletarian consumers . |
| 28 | The paper which , unlike Haycocks I and II , was not considered by the main ACSTT Committee because it arrived too late before it concluded its five year term , was circulated by the DES to interested organizations for discussion and comment and a large number of responses was received . |
| 29 | In the social work field this was strikingly acknowledged by the Curtis Committee on the care of children , which recommended the setting up of a Central Training Council on Child Care before it published its final report recommending radical changes in the organization of the care of deprived children . |
| 30 | The Ark of Noah , before it found its final resting-place , had struck the summit of Sippan Dagh and removed its cap , thereby exposing the inner fires of the earth . |