Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A carefully targeted marketing plan ensured Balbirnie House an occupancy rate of over 50% during it first 18 months of business . |
| 2 | He ca n't help being rather touched by the young man 's enthusiasm about it all . |
| 3 | No clue , that was , other than what her heart told her , and as Tom entered the room once more , his eyes coming straight to meet her own , her spirits lifted again and she felt a mysterious sense of rightness about it all . |
| 4 | I expect they will have to have some prayer about it all . |
| 5 | When the Peel Commission proposed partition in 1937 , Abdallah was virtually alone in the Arab world in his support for it contingent , however , on the incorporation of the Arab portion into his Amirate . |
| 6 | It occurred in the Foreign Office and the Foreign Office , and I personally take full responsibility for it this afternoon before the House . |
| 7 | Yeah I think he , I think he 's , I 've explained like everything , we 're just paying the money for it that is all |
| 8 | I think there should be as much coverage , but I think there should be a break between it all . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't even got that far in the analysis of this new theory but it only adds to my doubts about it all anyway . |
| 10 | It would n't settle the shaky future of a family business painstakingly built up with love and commitment , it would n't alter the shock of Mortimer 's twisted values … but it would definitely take her mind off it all for a while . |
| 11 | Why talk about it any more ? |
| 12 | Okay so what I 'd like you to do now a little bit of revision which , which way shall we do it first of all no just talk about it both of you what you found easy and what you found hard . |
| 13 | It has been condemned from all sides ; there is virtually no advocate for it outside Government and there are precious few inside . |
| 14 | ‘ The English College , the Irish College — there 's a sort of cosiness about it all . |
| 15 | Yeah , we paid thirty eight pound off it last year . |
| 16 | The writer told Ken about it all . |
| 17 | Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’ |
| 18 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ DeFries always thought that in order for us to absorb musical culture as it should be from America , we should actually go and live in America , and it took quite a few months for it all to be organized . |
| 19 | It 's counter see you , the reason , the reason that this seems difficult to understand at first is we 're not used to thinking of it that way . |
| 20 | Just so she can change her perception of it all . |
| 21 | British Telecom plans to install about 100 000 km of fibre by the end of the decade , the great bulk of it multimode . |
| 22 | That means that , over the life of the project , some 100 million tonnes of rock must be dug , the great bulk of it waste material . |
| 23 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 24 | I really do n't think I could tolerate the loss of it all . ’ |
| 25 | My understanding of English was competent , but my command of it uncertain . |
| 26 | And then , when you think you have everything under control , when you 're certain you 're in complete command of it all your thoughts , your life , your world and your work what does Time do ? |
| 27 | Whether children will get a better education as a result of it all is by no means clear . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the end result of it all was that by the '60s Hawaiian music was regarded with pretty much universal contempt . |
| 29 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , there is n't space to illustrate it in this issue , but I will include a photograph of it next time . |