Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmhouse lay below them , its fire-gutted wing black in the autumn afternoon , a low glow as from an oil-lamp coming from one window of the other wing . |
| 2 | Something about its original vaunted status as a " Palace of the People " fired the imagination of anybody who came into contact with it , and overcame the doubts that its rocky track record as a business prospect might have occasioned . |
| 3 | In its enclosed valley basin the fume and grime from the cheap coal of its suburban collieries with iron works , brass foundries and glass works was already driving the wealthier merchants up into the healthy heights of Clifton by the 1720s . |
| 4 | No-one would judge an overseas subsidiary purely on its cash flow , because if it was doing well and growing it would n't be sending much money home , whereas if it was in decline and its working capital requirement was decreasing , it would become cash positive . |
| 5 | The motor industry is thus able to invest some risk capital in experimental projects in order to increase its working data base . |
| 6 | Labour needs to regain its working class support as well as modernising itself |
| 7 | Consciopus of political correctness they company was anxious not to lose its working class image . |
| 8 | The paper had an ageing readership and a bad position in the advertising market , because of its working class skew . |
| 9 | Visitors can enjoy one of the regular concerts given by the acclaimed City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra which continues to rise to new heights under Simon Rattle , its outstanding Music Director . |
| 10 | Most of all , for regular travellers the sheer familiarity of the operation with its outstanding safety record and short check-in times are major plus points . |
| 11 | In its botanical sense tundra is a working abbreviation for arctic tundra vegetation , the tough , low-lying vegetation that typifies the arctic treeless area . |
| 12 | Evan 's botanical records , kept meticulously for three decades , were placed immediately at the NCC 's disposal and still underpin its botanical data base . |
| 13 | THE Bank of Scotland has announced that it is to cut the monthly rate of interest on its Classic Visa Card and Bank Mastercard from 1.8 per cent to 1.63 per cent . |
| 14 | Alfa Romeo had a now-you-see-it , now-you-do n't glass roof on its 164-based Proteo coupe , but a production future here is altogether more promising . |
| 15 | The land tax took its usual wartime hike , to 4s ( 20p ) in the pound ; the malt tax rose from 9½d ( 4p ) to 1s 4½d ( 7p ) on the bushel , and duties were imposed on wine and tobacco . |
| 16 | He decided not to wipe his face , which had started to run in its usual sleepy-fruit way , because to do so might have destroyed the impression . |
| 17 | Her voice regained its usual baritone boom . |
| 18 | Brought forward to September from its usual November date , Gladys Sellers and Tom Prentice look at what 's new at the annual trade show |
| 19 | As a change from its usual summer survey Galerie St Etienne is presenting three exhibitions focusing on the principal areas of the gallery 's interests . |
| 20 | The bread wards off hunger for as long as the same weight of ordinary bread despite its lower starch value . |
| 21 | Her voice , vulgarised by its Lower Normandy accent , was full of caressing tones , and her eyes , of uncertain colour , green , grey , or blue , according to the light , had a pleading expression , which never left them . |
| 22 | It was , however , still conceivable that the addition reaction of the enzyme to a DNA could occur in a sequence-unspecific way with any cytosine residue the enzyme makes contact with ( for example while sliding along the DNA in search of its specific substrate sequence ) . |
| 23 | The missile , and its specific jamming device , are enemies of each other in that success in one is synonymous with failure in the other . |
| 24 | This has succeeded in kick-starting many renewable projects , but as its 1998 cut-off date approaches , it is becoming difficult to finance new schemes . |
| 25 | Hitachi Ltd has extended the Precision Architecture RISC-based end of its 3050 Unix workstation family , the first RISC models of which were launched in May last year with the 3050/REsv , based on a 66MHz version of the Hewlett-Packard Co RISC and designed to achieve performance of 76 MIPS . |
| 26 | Mitcham which contains a number of interesting Georgian houses , is now a separate borough and is well known for its historic cricket green and its lavender factory . |
| 27 | With 7,000 students spread across three campuses , King 's badly needs more space on its historic Strand site . |
| 28 | The ancient and dignified town of Bellagio , with its historic silk industry , sits on the headland where Lake Como forks . |
| 29 | Perhaps it is a reflection on the economic failure of communism that its greatest status symbol should have been the most precious household item of the unemployed in the West . |
| 30 | Iran 's stance reflected opposition to the decision to increase OPEC 's " market share " , i.e. its aggregate production ceiling , from 22,982,000 to 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) in the fourth quarter of 1992 . |