Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 2 | He was n't very fond of the river Wye , for its rocky crevasses had claimed too many young lives even during the short time he had been there . |
| 3 | Mottle Foin , the only foin on which trees grew , little stunted pines making a black dappling on its surface , was the highest hill on the moor after Big Allen and now its rocky hump hid the Milder 's northerly curves , Pierce Foin and all of Lustley Dale . |
| 4 | It showed its great white teeth angrily , and its cruel eyes shone mercilessly in the lamplight . |
| 5 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 6 | SCI Systems Inc , Huntsville , Alabama contract manufacturer called all its outstanding 9% subordinated convertible debentures due April 1 2015 for redemption on April 1 . |
| 7 | It wants to do for Regional Railways what its slick imagery did to boost Inter City . |
| 8 | The crashing wind had dropped to a vicious whine , but the rain had intensified and its thunderous noise filled the room . |
| 9 | Julie fell dead beneath a tree , its lower branches hacked off in the frenzied attack . |
| 10 | America 's narrow-money growth quickened to 10.8% in the year to April , but its broad-money supply fell by 1% . |
| 11 | THE football world was gutted yesterday when its greatest hero announced he was being forced to hang up his boots after almost 40 years at the top . |
| 12 | This zone , which at its greatest extent ran from Transylvania to the Adriatic , following the line of the Danube and Sava rivers , was not finally abolished until 1881 . |
| 13 | Its greatest achievements came during World War II when it caught every one of Hitler 's spies sent to England . |
| 14 | The bureaucratization of the party was first made a target of criticism by Trotsky , who drew attention to the way that , under Stalin , the party functionaries rather than its representative elements had come to control the party and how these functionaries had become indistinguishable in their political interests from the functionaries of the state apparatus . |
| 15 | Compared with Auspex Systems Inc , from where its technical people came , it says preliminary LADDIS benchmarks indicates a response time of 7ms versus 21ms and a throughput with two Ethernets of 415 input-outputs per second versus 466 , at a price of $37,000 versus $200,000 . |
| 16 | Its clammy coldness had nothing to do with the coldness of the day . |
| 17 | Clearly its light-hearted character appealed more to contemporary taste than the complexities — musical and textual — of Figaro , or of Don Giovanni , with its reminder of the dreadful fate awaiting the over-indulgent sensualist . |
| 18 | The face , too , was intriguing , its strong lines accentuated by severely cropped hair and a skin smooth and ruddy as an apple . |
| 19 | Its strong beat had been a friend beside his ear at night as he lay thinking , or when he woke to have a quiet smoke in the darkness . |
| 20 | Dinah had taken the pins out of her hair , and its rich length unravelled itself down her back ; she stood before him , Juliet again , innocent and unbound . |
| 21 | When she passed under the streetlight I could see her long , curly hair was red ; its rich hue glowed like fire , despite the way the artificial light stripped the colour from everything else it touched . |
| 22 | Simultaneous with the emergence of the swept wing shape and its cambered sails stretched either side of a central spine , there were other innovations which arrived during the same development period . |
| 23 | No individual Members had submitted evidence questioning the ways in which the work of the House and its regional interests had been portrayed in their own locality ( one Member , Mr James Kilfedder , complained in a Commons debate ( 19 July 1990 ) of the failure of both BBC and Ulster TV to provide proper coverage of the speeches of Members of all parties from Northern Ireland ) . |
| 24 | Its broad money grew by 2.2% . |
| 25 | A long wooden worksurface filled most of the left-hand wall , its broad top cleared . |
| 26 | ‘ The economic emancipation of Buenos Aires was determined before its political independence began . ’ |
| 27 | The axis of the great shift in the world ran between Bonn and Moscow , and if Britain was nominally closer to it all than the United States , its political leaders had even less to say . |
| 28 | They did not seem to realize that the Allies ' prime concern was the neutrality of Spain , and that any interest they might have in the nature of its political regime existed as a function of that concern . |
| 29 | At a meeting in Vitoria on Sept. 15 the moderate parties represented in the Basque region ( the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) ; the Popular Party ( PP ) ; the Basque Left ( EE ) ; and Unidad Alavesa but not Basque Solidarity ( EA ) ) confirmed their joint political opposition to the separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA ) and the attitude of its political wing United People ( HB ) in reinforcement of the 1988 Ajuria Enea pact [ see p. 35853 ] . |
| 30 | With its political basis ensured , the government could now settle down to consolidate and enjoy the fruits of recovery . |