Example sentences of "of it [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By his calculations , domestic sales ( about a third of total sales ) accounted for as much as half of the peak load ( most of it space heating ) in severe weather , and thus imposed rather higher system costs than industrial and commercial sales . |
| 2 | . The erm the gist of it sir is that English Nature er carried out er last year a survey of ponds in this area , though we are not certain that they were able , owing to the exigences er created by the attitudes of certain landowners , er to erm investigate every pond in the area . |
| 3 | That would be part of it sir , certainly yes . |
| 4 | An extended family placement has been used , but with minimal investigation of it suitability and minimal support to the carer . |
| 5 | Why have you been frightened of it mum ? |
| 6 | ‘ Much , but all of it hearsay . |
| 7 | ZURICH — Switzerland was responding to Polish appeals for economic aid by sending five million Swiss francs ( £1.9m ) of food — 40 per cent of it wheat bought in Hungary — the Foreign Ministry said yesterday Reuter reports . |
| 8 | In 1988 Canada exported US$1,140 million worth of goods to the Soviet Union , 85 per cent of it wheat . |
| 9 | DEC 's European Open Systems manager , Jean-Claude Money , claimed that DEC 's hardware business has started to grow again ‘ both in revenues and units ’ , while the software side , 25% of it middleware , is now worth $3 billion worldwide . |
| 10 | Read that and see whether you think it 's er accurate or which bits of it click and which bits of it do n't . |
| 11 | And there was poor Fred , speaking up for the reviled council block in which he , unlike any of the others , lived : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad , it 's a lot of it exaggeration , ’ he interposed mildly , as Steve repeated the time-worn allegation that it was n't safe to walk under the deck walkways for fear of having a television set or an old mattress chucked on your head : ‘ Nay , it 's not that bad at all . ’ |
| 12 | To burst it now would be to risk the messiness of it re-grouping , possibly cloning itself across the infected area and returning in a small battalion . |
| 13 | There is a lot of it hype , there is a lot of it window dressing , but by and large it has helped to provide a railway line , if you like , for them to work on and give special help and special aid to various industries that are relocating there . |
| 14 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
| 15 | This building contained a cellar , stacked up to the door and ceiling with all sorts of stuff , some of it junk and rubbish , but also including a number of deed boxes , some furniture and several very interesting old items , e.g. an Admiral Fitzroy barometer , letter scales etc . ’ |
| 16 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 17 | There is a lot of it hype , there is a lot of it window dressing , but by and large it has helped to provide a railway line , if you like , for them to work on and give special help and special aid to various industries that are relocating there . |
| 18 | proud of it boy . |
| 19 | Over the last thirty years the achievements of physiologists and psychologists in studying dreaming have received a good deal of attention in the media , much of it sensationalist , so one might expect some of this information to have percolated through to become common knowledge . |
| 20 | Although there are no plans to wind the imprint down , the precise nature of it future within the group looks uncertain . |
| 21 | cos your drum of it instructor told you |
| 22 | An army Catering Corps team " The Spirited Sustainers " arrived at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust using many different forms of catering transport , much of it vintage , kindly loaned by various catering companies . |
| 23 | On the face of it section 6 of the 1980 Act has added little in the way of parental rights to section 76 of the 1944 Act . |
| 24 | God , what did any of it matter , in the end ? |
| 25 | Gradually I put on body weight , a lot of it muscle bulk , and took to daily weight training . |
| 26 | Nearly a half of the land area of the UK is designated under the EEC Less Favoured Areas Directive ( 75/268 ) , almost all of it upland . |
| 27 | Part of the text stated ‘ … one atom of it weight 235 times as much as an atom of hydrogen , [ U 235 ] releases energy automatically directly it is touched by cold water ’ . |
| 28 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |
| 29 | All of it grist to the mill of this young poet-in-the-making . |