Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has something of the African tomtom and voodoo dance . ’ |
| 2 | While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton . |
| 3 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 4 | Such rationalization is , however , of great interest to the historian because it reveals something of the social processes involved in gaining respect for scientific work both inside and outside a scientific community . |
| 5 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 6 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 7 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
| 8 | The descent was nerve-racking and it reminded me of the slow , queasy way light planes come in to land in Himalayan valleys . |
| 9 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |
| 10 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
| 11 | It reminded her of the old days when just a passing glance of his could reduce her to a state of burning confusion . |
| 12 | It reminded her of the disastrous pole-vault on the school sports-day , when Enid had cast a spell on Mildred 's pole to help her , but had inadvertently overdone the magic and Mildred had sailed through Miss Hardbroom 's study window . |
| 13 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 14 | It reminds us of the deadly risks which our police officers run on on our behalf , day and night . |
| 15 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 16 | Built from soft Headington stone , and blackened by the soot from college chimneys , it had something of the crumbly , grand appearance of a country house in Ireland . |
| 17 | It had none of the institutional smell Alida had prepared herself for . |
| 18 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |
| 19 | In the metropolis , its seats were largely dilapidated older boroughs ; it held none of the thriving suburban seats or commuter constituencies . |