Example sentences of "of it [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 2 | All methods include : ( a ) grouping of material ( b ) an arrangement of it into some sort of sequence |
| 3 | Because his wife had made dishes of it as first-night presents for the cast , apart from Titania , who was on a diet and would have to be dealt with in some other way . |
| 4 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 5 | ’ Think of it as another reason for you to stay away from big gorgeous women with enormous boobs ’ . |
| 6 | Derby when just run out of it for third place by Fly Smasher . |
| 7 | Mr Warburton , whose responsibility it was to run an efficient , economic , and safe railway , had considered the CIOR 's embargo to be prohibitive and had issued his own perceived clarification of it to regional managers before the meeting at which the new Newton lay-out was approved . |
| 8 | He had been expecting to sell quite a few additional copies of it to those customers of his who appreciated such things . |
| 9 | ‘ Keep the media out of it at all costs for the moment . |
| 10 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 11 | I mean a real Safeway , you know , the ones you see in the U S where everything you know , even the trolleys , are seven times bigger , erm n n not like they are , you know , the aliens land in the car park of the Maple Valley Safeways in Washington State , and , and observe people coming out of it with enormous piles of shopping . |
| 12 | To his right wing the Zoo stretched away in the distance ; Three Island Pond he recognized as a paler shape than the rest with lights on the paths around to mark it out ; the Cages were in front of it with several Men around them . |
| 13 | This driver is clearly central to the performance of the 103/2 , handling as it does the bulk of the frequency range , though there was certainly no gamble involved in its incorporation into the Reference range since KEF had already utilised another version of it with notable success in the baby model , the 101/2 . |
| 14 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 15 | Well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year , and in the present state of the world aviation market I reckon that 's quite a tall order , in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which we 've been talking about . |
| 16 | Some of it by clever accounting on the part of Andrew |
| 17 | Part of the deficit of the mainland colonies with Britain was covered by their exports to the sugar islands , part of it by increased indebtedness to British merchants . |
| 18 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 19 | Well , of course , it is inevitable that one thinks of it from that angle from the way one has been brought up but actually one ca n't think of anything more barbaric than the Crucifixion and that way of killing somebody . |