Example sentences of "its [adj] [noun pl] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 In a late decision , ARCO , Madrid 's annual contemporary art fair founded in 1982 , is returning to the Crystal Pavilion of the Casa de Campo , the hall where it enjoyed its greatest successes until it relocated to the new Juan Carlos I exhibition park near the airport north of the city a year ago .
2 WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union risked an ‘ inflationary disintegration ’ of its economic reforms unless it moved rapidly to a convertible rouble backed by gold , according to Wayne Angell , a governor of the US Federal Reserve , writes John Lichfield .
3 The van slewed wildly , but kept travelling , smoke appearing from its rear tyres as it swerved and skidded back towards the exit .
4 Opren , the anti-arthritis drug , was banned after its large-scale use and Mexico found itself unable to meet its international debts because it had discovered enormous oil resources .
5 Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland warned at the congress that Norway risked isolation from its Nordic neighbours if it failed to re-apply ( earlier applications having been made in 1962 , 1967 and 1970 ) .
6 NATIONAL Express has enjoyed a one-way ticket to profitability , the coach operator revealed today in its first results since it floated on the stock market .
7 The government had better learn to reach compromises with its own MPs before it got into a pickle .
8 According to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , the Bank of England failed to discharge its supervisory duties before it shut down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in July , 1991 .
9 I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze .
10 Cable & Wireless Plc also faces a $368m damages suit from its local partners after it withdrew from the project to provide telephone services in the Philippines , Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc president Eduardo Villanueva said : Cables refused to put up its share of a deposit on the $1,480m telephone project on Luzon island ; the local partners also want the government to blacklist the company .
11 Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use .
12 Country music was unquestionably one of the forerunners of rock'n'roll , and certainly one of its main constituents when it arrived in its recognised form .
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