Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 2 | By the mid-1930s it was past its peak , but it played a prominent part in the agitation which led to the suspension of the National Government 's unemployment assistance board scheme early in 1935 . |
| 3 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 4 | The neighbour we sent it to died while it was on its way . |
| 5 | After peering through our binoculars , we decided it was on its way to the lowest ledges to scavenge from the roosting sites . |
| 6 | I know Meredith Putt 's been doing a lot of talking about the railway , but I did n't know it was on its way . ’ |
| 7 | It was on its way from Hampshire to a railway museum at Toddington , near Cheltenham . |
| 8 | It was on its way from Hampshire to a railway museum at Toddington , near Cheltenham . |
| 9 | ‘ It was on its back and hurting , ’ remembers Mr D'Silva . |
| 10 | Britain 's union structure was one of a series of ‘ fragmented monopolies ’ , each monopoly looking over its shoulder at other monopolies and exploiting the comparison whenever it was to its advantage . |
| 11 | When my wife and I chose our Peugeot 405 it was for its comfort , performance and interior space . |
| 12 | It was in its cradle but the mouthpiece end looked crooked . |
| 13 | He smiled at the ease of it ; one minute the fish was dying , the next it was in its element . |
| 14 | Our only witness is the Cathedral cleaner , Mrs Thrigg , who thinks , but is n't sure , that it was in its place on the Tuesday before the murder when she cleaned round the pews in the infantry chapel . ’ |
| 15 | with a hole in the top and that , and when I went in it was in its box , facing the back of the box and its tail sticking out . |
| 16 | It was in its infancy in those days and I noticed that whenever David did a show for them , they dressed the set with every conceivable brightly coloured object , with the result you could hardly see him . |
| 17 | The great trans-shipment complex for the riches mined from the valleys at Morwellham , near Tavistock in Devon , is now a far cry from its original form , while Coalbrookdale , despite gallant work on it , is quite unlike it was in its heyday . |
| 18 | For a while the French government maintained a stony silence about the affair , claiming it was beneath its dignity to comment on allegations that the DGSE had been involved . |