Example sentences of "[noun sg] of it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 2 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |
| 3 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 4 | Part of it includes two bypasses north of Oxford . |
| 5 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 6 | This is an absolute necessity and to work in defiance of it means total failure . |
| 7 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 8 | So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal . |
| 9 | Since the perestroika process began , the Soviet economy has followed a steady course downwards , and there seems no prospect at the moment of it reversing that process . |
| 10 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 11 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 12 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 13 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 14 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 15 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 16 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 17 | Despite the majority in favour of merit , SCOTVEC 's implementation of it attracted critical comment . |