Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the tsar-reformer 's great achievements was the foundation of the Russian navy , much of it consisting of wooden galleys propelled by the collective muscle-power of conscript or convict oarsmen . |
| 2 | Experiments on the biological effects of radiation were similarly hampered by the problems of measuring the intensity of radiation and the proportion of it absorbed by living tissues . |
| 3 | January was a month of intense political and diplomatic activity in Hong Kong , much of it related to constitutional developments ahead of the territory 's restoration to China in 1997 . |
| 4 | How do you think I feel when I bring home three hundred a twenty quid a week , and all of it goes on fucking bills ! |
| 5 | This leads to the inevitable question ‘ Where does it all go to ? ’ and the simple answer is that most of it goes to several firms specialising in BOB ( Buyer 's Own Brand : ie , supermarket brands etc . ) |
| 6 | The amplified muezzins of the town 's mosques spent much of it chanting at full volume . |
| 7 | Between 1970 and 1984 , Latin America 's foreign debt mushroomed from $21 billion to $360 billion , the bulk of it owed to Western banks . |
| 8 | Soft toys and medicine , much of it earmarked for specific children , was soiled by smoke , fire and water . |
| 9 | Economic prosperity and satisfaction led many , perhaps , to look rather benignly upon Hallstein 's activist Commission and not to be unduly worried by the possibility of it developing into some kind of European government . |
| 10 | Whilst the law does not require disclosure of such an interest , as it does with the financial one , it may be prudent to indicate the existence of the interest and , because of it to withdraw from active consideration of the issue . |
| 11 | Apart from these , and the research described in the present book , there has been relatively little research in this area , most of it resulting in unpublished MA theses ( e.g. Tate 1984 ) or doctoral theses ( e.g. Wright 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Can a major part of a church be demolished without consent on the grounds that part of it remains in ecclesiastical use ? |
| 13 | That when women are given the vote it follows that children should be given it too is no argument at all , but a version of it occurs in modern debates over the justice or injustice of Mill 's famous disclaimer in his essay On Liberty . |
| 14 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 15 | and then there is another thing about on top of it think about giant eggs , eggs |
| 16 | The order , won by DEC and its prime contractor Computer Sciences Corporation , calls for $4.2m worth of DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP machines immediately with the possibility of it going to 2,500 boxes , a value of $30m , over the next four years . |
| 17 | He sat in shirt-sleeved , patriarchal majesty and his spreading , black waistcoat ( the shiny back of it cracked in long lines ) was strung with an impressive gold watch-chain , of the style favoured by Victorian pit-owners . |
| 18 | Keeler has been musing on the nature of weediness and the likelihood of it evolving among engineered crops . |
| 19 | The exhibition includes some delicately-worked gold jewellery , most of it found in Celtic tombs in the past 100 years : typically gold or silver torques , or saddle and bridle decorations of gold , silver , coral and enamel . |
| 20 | In the unlikely event of it surviving for three years , it becomes mutton . |
| 21 | I 've spent 14 years in East Africa , most of it working with tropical rainforest and its utilisation , so I 've been in Uganda , which is a relatively small country as far as forests are concerned . |
| 22 | Over the ensuing twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased , while the considerable physical presence of an industrial proletariat , much of it working in large plants , became increasingly apparent . |
| 23 | Similarly , the common good ( or rather , that part of it defined by legal rules ) is not taken to be an objective category . |
| 24 | By 1985 the Really Useful Company was showing a £2.7 million profit incredibly , almost all of it coming from one source , Cats , Lloyd Webber 's biggest money-spinner yet . |
| 25 | Fortunately today recordings of period music are now widely available , much of it performed on authentic period instruments . |
| 26 | Now , starts off , most of it taken from social psychology text books . |
| 27 | 1290 in England , and that knowledge of it spread to various centres ’ . |
| 28 | I 'd been out and I was out of it sitting in this shop doorway having this conversation with myself . |
| 29 | While some of the clearest evidence for localization of function came from neurological studies on humans with damaged or disturbed brains , some of the best evidence against it came from experimental studies on animals . |
| 30 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |