Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] its " in BNC.

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1 It is of importance in its own right , since affirmative assessment aims to include all significant experience , and unconscious pain is surely significant .
2 A local authority that spends less on special educational needs does so either because it has less incidence of such needs or because it is in dereliction of its duties to pupils with those needs .
3 ERC noted that it was on target with its 1991 budget .
4 This makes it the more interesting that mammoth ivory , well adapted though it was by reason of its strength for tools and weapons , was reserved to a substantial extent for personal ornaments and sculptural representations .
5 It was in deficit in its trade with the outside world , calculated in Soviet domestic prices , but with its oil and other resources expressed in world market prices it was the only republic to have a positive balance in its trade with non-Soviet partners ; and it was the most economically self-sufficient of all the republics .
6 The BBC never had to fit audiences to advertisers , but from 1955 it was in competition for its audiences with ITV .
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