Example sentences of "[adj] of it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up his tankard and drank off half of it in one gulp . |
| 2 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 3 | Since there is a body of theory associated with these routes , some of it of considerable generality , identification of one of the routes implies that the transition is at least partially understood . |
| 4 | In America The Hymnal 1980 contains no fewer than 288 examples of service music and it is permissible to reproduce some of it for congregational use . |
| 5 | Their partners are making dollars faster than either of them can count , some of it in black market trading . |
| 6 | Karlinsky painted a grim picture — endless hardship , unceasing toil and sweat , back-breaking labour in hostile climatic conditions , some of it in malaria-ridden areas . |
| 7 | There was also snorkelling equipment , some of it in unusable condition . |
| 8 | Group members derive some of it from each other . |
| 9 | Imported coal continued to be unloaded , some of it from Communist countries . |
| 10 | Some of it by clever accounting on the part of Andrew |
| 11 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 12 | Mrs K. Battye 's local history class have mapped the information recorded in the 1881 census returns and have related much of it to existing buildings . |
| 13 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 14 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 15 | But I do n't think we should make too much of it at this stage . |
| 16 | To win a pound of gold the Rand miners had on the average to raise , crush and purify some sixty-seven tons of ore , much of it under extreme temperatures and from great depths . |
| 17 | The waste , including banned pesticides and fungicides , much of it in inadequate containers , was produced by companies in the former East Germany . |
| 18 | The 500,000 acres of water authority land , much of it in national parks and areas of outstanding beauty , was ‘ a massive inducement ’ to the City to take over the industry . |
| 19 | The attention paid to authentic workwear style on fashion pages , much of it in this magazine , has not been matched so readily on the nation 's streets . |
| 20 | Although it is certainly true that individuals can gain a false idea about the ease of making money on the Stock Market , there is also no doubt that privatisation has generated substantial interest in the Stock Market , much of it from new investors . |
| 21 | Even from her high perch , Ace could n't see all of it at one glance . |
| 22 | The break-up specialist may have an interest in retaining certain parts of the company or he may wish to dispose of all of it to other companies . |
| 23 | Illegal narcotics contributed at least $5 billion a year to the Syrian economy , almost all of it in American dollars and other hard currencies . |
| 24 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 25 | Equally , and as can be seen from Table 4.5 , those who took first jobs that were temporary spent more of the 20 month observation period being unemployed and less of it in full-time employment than did those who took first jobs that were permanent . |
| 26 | ‘ Was any of it of any use , ’ I asked , ‘ My course I mean . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't really know what they think , or if they think , or if they give a shit about any of it in any case . |
| 28 | Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ . |
| 29 | You know you want to know and I would 've thought that the higher the management the more they want to know the implications , the financial of it of any plan which you 're going into . |
| 30 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |