Example sentences of "of 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described in the present book , there has been relatively little research in this area , most of it resulting in unpublished MA theses ( e.g. Tate 1984 ) or doctoral theses ( e.g. Wright 1984 ) .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 . |