Example sentences of "of it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 2 | The first son had died leaving a son but the second died childless : on the face of it the granddaughter was not admitted because of the wording of the condition . |
| 3 | In order that the process of production may continue , it is necessary to reproduce in it and by means of it the substances that it consumes . |
| 4 | West of the Brandenburg Gate is the Deutsche Oper , east of it the Deutsche Staatsoper and the Komische Oper . |
| 5 | Every time I thought I 'd got the hang of it the service changed . |
| 6 | On the face of it the statement ‘ God is Truth ’ seems to imply that Truth is an attribute or description of God , and in the first instance Gandhi was content to allow the phrase to be used in this way although it did not accurately reflect his position . |
| 7 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 8 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
| 9 | Yet all turned out for the best : on 20 July 1836 , Daniel Jones returned Benjamin his indenture , only too pleased to inscribe on the back of it the fact that he had appreciated the boy 's seven years with him , and making him a generous gift of five pounds in the process . |
| 10 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 11 | In the Cox Report we therefore set out our rationale for explicit knowledge about language in a separate section , and printed as part of it the statements of attainment about knowledge about language from the three profile components , bringing them together in order to show their coherence . |
| 12 | On Monday Paul had his tutorial , and at the end of it the Professor sent for him ; he looked grave . |
| 13 | He emptied his mind , he walked like an automaton up on to the green ride , seeing at the end of it the cameo of stacked meadows , segments of wood , a church tower . |
| 14 | On his way he passed the main drive , and he could see that at the end of it the gates were open . |
| 15 | On the face of it the motives of Ford and Fiat appeared to be similar , but the key difference was that Ford 's share of the Italian car market was minimal , whereas Fiat 's was in excess of 55 per cent . |
| 16 | On the face of it the film has a lot going for it — Pakula as director , and a cast including the frequently brilliant Kevin Kline , Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , Kevin Spacey , Rebecca Miller and Forest Whitaker . |
| 17 | On the face of it the latter view certainly seems the more rational , since the two states in question appear to contain elements that are inherently irreconcilable . |
| 18 | While that argument would beg an important question , on the face of it the marriage laws do seem to promote the function of optimal outbreeding . |
| 19 | At the end of it the Serbs will hold a fairly compact stretch of ex-Bosnian and ex-Croatian territory whose separation from pre-1991 Serbia will look increasingly theoretical . |
| 20 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 21 | On the face of it the queen herself was innocent of any involvement . |
| 22 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 23 | On his way into Spain in 76 BC , Pompey annexed the valley of the river Garonne , which forms the main axis of Comminges , and four years later , on his way back from Spain , he founded at the northern end of it the city of Lugdunum Convenarum , where Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges stands today . |
| 24 | It may seem curious that physics , on the face of it the most challenging and exciting of disciplines , a discipline whose discoveries have transformed the world we live in , should be taught in a way which demands little creativity or imagination . |
| 25 | Divisions do not , however , end with the green baize door ; on either side of it the sexes are strictly segregated . |
| 26 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 27 | C.J. some 160 years earlier in Tenant v. Goldwin , and they cited as instances of it the rules relating to cattle-trespass , the escape of mischievous animals and nuisance by the escape of fumes . |
| 28 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've got something , all right , and the sooner I can get rid of it the happier I 'll be . |
| 30 | Leaning out of it the figure of Charlie Chaplin waved to anyone who cared to look up , frozen forever in that pose . |