Example sentences of "of it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 2 | I suppose I have always thought of it as a possibility but his actual decision to marry was a surprise . ’ |
| 3 | Sex education as a subject is important in any discussion of the work of Mrs Whitehouse , because her experiences of it as a teacher and parent , indirectly , if not directly , led her into the public domain of the politics of sexual morality . |
| 4 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |
| 5 | and they are excepting a lump sum from the Government and they 're going to manage themselves and make a going concern of it as a business and any profits they get will go back to that hospital , well the community unit are opting out as well , they 're hoping to opt out , but if Labour get in , they 're gon na do away with all that and they want to undo all the one 's that have opted out , I mean I du n no how the hell they 're gon na do it |
| 6 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 7 | Think of it as an investment that your tips will pay you back . ’ |
| 8 | I would n't even think of it for a minute if it was n't best for everybody . |
| 9 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 10 | A woman 's world was more private , she was in charge of it in a way that you could n't be if you were a man . |
| 11 | ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer 's control , the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks . ’ |
| 12 | I just wonder at the necessity of it in an area that already has two golf-courses to its credit . |