Example sentences of "it [adj] of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I hope you do n't think it strange of me to sit here , ’ said Reni .
2 Is it that of a vicarious believer , if such a person is possible ?
3 Thus paintings were there to reveal a presence behind an appearance — be it that of a madonna , a tree or , simply , the light that soaks through a red .
4 It is available now , but has not had the take up that Windows has enjoyed — one cynical comment has it that of the less than half million copies actually in use , the better part were given away — and yet it is a very capable operating system with some excellent features .
5 No er eventually you would get it dry of course .
6 Also , the processes and skills involved in the creation of a database , be it computerized of manual , are similar for all the above examples .
7 Or is it representative of something more general ?
8 I thought it plucky of the Labour party to sing Jerusalem at one of Mr Kinnock 's beanos last week .
9 Clearly , Greeley and Rossi 's findings could be used both ways , and in fact both camps in the Irish debate have found it supportive of their case .
10 And , while a little pressure can do us good — without it some of us might n't even bother to slither out from under the Slumberdown in the mornings — too much is definitely a bad thing .
11 And to ease my memory , to free from it some of the words , the phrases I had already written — precious seeds — I would walk and walk ; walk like a man without a camera , who only has his diary to record what he sees .
12 For monitoring cylinder pressure , Pro-File has a socket connected by an electrical cable to a 340-bar transducer in the first stage of a demand valve ; use of the cable is optional , but without it some of the features are lost .
13 He was to have a wide , if rather scattered , influence in English theology through the nineteenth century , and served to introduce into it some of the same impulses that Schleiermacher brought in Germany .
14 A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars .
15 Okay right so there 's a s there 's a system to what 's going on with the acids and it 's not just one acid like hydrochloric most of the acids will do it some of them do it very readily some of them you have to get the conditions right often you have to get the temperature high to make it to make the reaction go but a metal plus an acid erm there 's a typical one zinc H two S O four gives zinc sulphate and the hydrogen .
16 Under the 1980 Local Government Planning and Land Act the old loan sanction procedure disappeared , and with it some of the detailed controls .
17 We should adapt that and perhaps incorporate into it some of the schemes that have been tried and could be improved .
18 It was hard to get , and she filled the bucket by crumbling into it some of the clumps of dried earth that were still inside old flowerpots .
19 The reorganization comprised cutting the number of staff based in Moscow from 5,000 to 2,700 ; renaming the Ministry as the Ministry of External Relations , and transferring to it some of the functions of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations , which was to be abolished [ see above ] .
20 It 's an admission that a 42-year-old who throws himself around manically shouting , ’ Go on kid , give it some of that ’ should n't be taken that seriously .
21 Give it some of that' or ’ We 've got Sabrina on next weeks show , and you do n't get many of them to the pound , eh boys ? ’
22 I 've always been a bit of an organiser , so when I looked in on ffeatherstonehaugh 's , started to go regularly and saw that things seemed to be in a bit of a mess , it seemed to me I might usefully give it some of my time . ’
23 Oh yes , yes , if er they do n't like the referee they 'll let him know it some of the decisions
24 Mm , yeah , they do n't seem to appreciate it some of them do they in there , terrible thing .
25 But er , I sa so I said ooh , give it some of this fat off the ham and er it was getting it and then instead of eating it
26 Every time he got to that corner it 'd be like that , all fucking giving it some of that .
27 given it some of that .
28 I find it I do n't find it very hard bu well not all of it some of it hard , it is hard though .
29 However , my cocker spaniel rates it top of the list for smell .
30 If you have a disability which makes it difficult to use your slot meter , electricity companies will usually move it free of charge .
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