Example sentences of "[vb pp] of it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The horse is too clever for its own good ! ’ is a frequent complaint when a horse evades or refuses to do what is expected of it . |
| 2 | It can be argued that for a second chamber , whose main functions are the consideration of less controversial Bills and the revision of other Bills from the other place without , however , power finally to frustrate the will of the democratically-elected chamber , ( as is now the case with the House of Lords , see below , pp.98–9 ) the fact that it is undemocratic matters little , provided that it is competent to do the job expected of it . |
| 3 | There 's a popular misconception that a beginner 's instrument does n't have to function in any way like a professional model , because much less is expected of it , and that is just not altogether true . |
| 4 | Perhaps too much has been expected of it : education policy is too weak an instrument for counteracting the great weight of inequality in British society . |
| 5 | The plan itself does serve as a binding mechanism to reduce ambiguity , but not too much should be expected of it . |
| 6 | The ability of the electoral system to produce a government in the way previously expected of it was thus called into question . |
| 7 | Similarly , unless it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances , a firm must not , in any written communication or agreement , seek to exclude or restrict : ( 1 ) Any other duty to act with skill , care and diligence which is owed to a private customer in connection with the provision to him of investment services in the course of regulated business ; or ( 2 ) Any liability owed to a private customer in connection with regulated business for failure to exercise the degree of skill , care and diligence that may reasonably be expected of it in the provision of investment services in the course of that business . |
| 8 | Indeed , it may even be possible to argue that certain types of reservation of title clause are caught by s3 , in so far as they purport to allow the seller to retain title until certain conditions are fulfilled , and therefore permit it to render a performance substantially different from that reasonably expected of it , or no performance at all . |
| 9 | Those tempted to wander over that dividing line can be forcefully reminded of it . |
| 10 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 11 | He genuinely had little concern with making money for its own sake , but he could not fail to be infected by Marjorie 's martyred attitude to their shortage of cash , and he resented being reminded of it by Kegan 's sleekness . |
| 12 | And I do n't want to keep being reminded of it . |
| 13 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 14 | Far more of the current national movements than care to be reminded of it have in practice given up envisaging total state independence as their final aim , at all events in Europe , the traditional home of the principle of nationality . |
| 15 | ROS : I do n't wish to be reminded of it . |
| 16 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 17 | Whatever other reasons may have existed — and however unpleasant it may be to be reminded of it — this is the same reason used in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 18 | Everybody hopes that we 've forgotten about that , but we have n't , and we 're reminded of it because of the courage of Lord Whitelaw and his advanced age and ill health , getting on to the T V last week and saying the Home Secretary is wrong to nationalise the police . |
| 19 | I do n't like to be reminded of it . ’ |
| 20 | The attempt floundered , and although the Labour Party has regularly called for reform since , nothing has come of it . |
| 21 | But nothing has come of it , and the only way to reach Wadi Halfa from Aswan is by a regular boat service that plies the lake . |
| 22 | Nothing could have come of it . |
| 23 | No — I daresay not — and in any case who 's to say what would have come of it ? |
| 24 | And but that he had many things to occupy his mind , and she no less , I think something would have come of it before now . ’ |
| 25 | Now see what has come of it ! ’ |
| 26 | That 's an issue he 'd surely hold close between the two of them as long as he thought no absolute harm had come of it . |
| 27 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 28 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 29 | He said : the more unreasonable a clause is , the greater the notice which must be given of it . |
| 30 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |