Example sentences of "about it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you look at the new PL28 drill , the first thing you notice about it is the absence of a conventional three-jaw chuck for holding the masonry bit . |
| 2 | What is particularly boring about it is that all the arguments are circular . |
| 3 | The most amazing thing about it is the brickwork , which after three hundred and fifty years has hardly softened or worn at all despite its exposure to south-westerly winds and salty sea air . |
| 4 | Nothing about it is taught at school and we are criticised abroad for not repenting of the war . ’ |
| 5 | It is an imaginative use of the word , but what is significant about it is that it reappears in that sense in only one other place in the Old Testament , in the passage immediately preceding God 's appearance on Sinai . |
| 6 | Whatever it 's called , though , one of the most gloomy facts about it is that it now spends more on weapons than on health and education put together |
| 7 | What strikes me about it is not only the great repertory you 've covered and the astonishing sales figures that must now be in the region of a hundred million , but the creative way you 've used the medium in conjunction with your years of work with the Berlin Philharmonic . |
| 8 | The crucial point to notice about it is that the entities whose ‘ fitnesses ’ are being compared are no longer individual organisms , but populations of organisms . |
| 9 | For our purposes , what matters about it is that it is an all-or-none signal , with an amplitude that does not attenuate as it travels along the axon . |
| 10 | Well , better than that , and one of the best things about it is the fact that so few people , except the French themselves , bother with it . |
| 11 | One successful way of going about it is to invite parents into school one class at a time to hear of the plans that the school has made . |
| 12 | The water boards are always prepared to discuss pressure and purity , but whether they will do anything about it is another matter , and the effects of privatisation have yet to be seen . |
| 13 | I shall carry on using the term regardless , and any hairy man who wants to challenge me about it is welcome to a wrestle . |
| 14 | The unlimited liability aspect of Lloyd 's is impressed upon every name , so for a name to say after the event that they did n't know about it is a load of cobblers . ’ |
| 15 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 16 | Keeping quiet and worrying about it is a bad policy . |
| 17 | Everything about it is a player 's guitar . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too . |
| 19 | And what 's nice about it is that it tracks better than most . |
| 20 | What 's funny about it is , they actually do like each other ; they just do n't realise that both of them have the same views in everything . |
| 21 | ‘ And all the government is doing about it is running the country ! |
| 22 | But , at root , what is most objectionable about it is the assumption that ‘ privacy ’ is just a phoney philosophical shield used by drug traffickers , pornographers and terrorists . |
| 23 | Their ability not only to begin to understand the nature of their alienation but to learn to do something about it is also enhanced by the development of automation . |
| 24 | If you want to protect yourself , your company or your firm from unfair competition from departed colleagues or employees , the time to think about it is now , or , preferably , when they join you . |
| 25 | The best thing about it is the feeling of security . ’ |
| 26 | The nice embalmer who wrote to me told me , greatly to his credit , of the totally unnecessary embalming that is frequently carried out , so that the first the next-of-kin knows about it is when he or she receives the bill . |
| 27 | The interesting thing about it is when Bill 's talking he 's describing a sort of village atmosphere and , of course , it 's a re-creation of a village sort of atmosphere , but it 's a village of choice , a community of the mind rather than one you were born into . |
| 28 | Contemporary evidence about it is sparse . |
| 29 | And the strange thing about it is they were all orphans . |
| 30 | The powder lip colour lasts for ages and the top gloss seals the colour , but the great thing about it is that you can use different combinations for different effects . |