Example sentences of "[adj] of it [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This building contained a cellar , stacked up to the door and ceiling with all sorts of stuff , some of it junk and rubbish , but also including a number of deed boxes , some furniture and several very interesting old items , e.g. an Admiral Fitzroy barometer , letter scales etc . ’ |
2 | Or some of it Ardakke has native shrub , she said , called phet in their own dialect . |
3 | Some of it Kraal told him ; other things he could see for himself . |
4 | Well I 'm going to start selling some of it Marg . |
5 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
6 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
7 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
8 | Over the last thirty years the achievements of physiologists and psychologists in studying dreaming have received a good deal of attention in the media , much of it sensationalist , so one might expect some of this information to have percolated through to become common knowledge . |
9 | An army Catering Corps team " The Spirited Sustainers " arrived at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust using many different forms of catering transport , much of it vintage , kindly loaned by various catering companies . |
10 | ‘ Much , but all of it hearsay . |
11 | All of it grist to the mill of this young poet-in-the-making . |
12 | Nearly a half of the land area of the UK is designated under the EEC Less Favoured Areas Directive ( 75/268 ) , almost all of it upland . |
13 | proud of it boy . |
14 | I 'm blatant and I 'm damn proud of it matey. makes a lot of bloody sense . |
15 | God , what did any of it matter , in the end ? |
16 | as if he was instantly aware of it Niall raised his head . |
17 | Why have you been frightened of it mum ? |
18 | By his calculations , domestic sales ( about a third of total sales ) accounted for as much as half of the peak load ( most of it space heating ) in severe weather , and thus imposed rather higher system costs than industrial and commercial sales . |