Example sentences of "[adj] of it [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | No , just over half of it that enough ? |
2 | We we should discuss a bit about this document and I too have had the er dubious honour of reading John Major 's speech and it 's nice to see that both Tory speakers have actually managed to take half of it each and paraphrase it . |
3 | 656,000 hectares , 26% of the land area , is forested in the Auvergne , half of it deciduous , the remainder planted conifer . |
4 | Try not to do it as you go , I mean , try to have a very definite idea in your mind what you want to do cos otherwise , you know , you start off , you 've painted half of it grey and think oh do n't like it like this bit ! |
5 | I found it hard to picture what kind of landscape those statistics might have shaped , until I opened the Ordnance Survey map to find half of it coloured green with a great blue stain in the centre . |
6 | I watched half of it last week , as soon as you told me off I I put it off . |
7 | Above it , is a cloud so dense it appears to be like a girder , half of it molten . |
8 | Women leaning over balconies looked and tossed down flowers , younger women openly showed their approval with a strange clicking sound and Fernando walked on , oblivious of it all . |
9 | Some of it is amusing , some of it pretentious drivel . |
10 | but it , that , that 's okay providing in the winter , you have n't got some of it that 's evergreen and some of it that you , you know , then you 've got to hedge it 's |
11 | but it , that , that 's okay providing in the winter , you have n't got some of it that 's evergreen and some of it that you , you know , then you 've got to hedge it 's |
12 | Some of it is genuine , some of it all a smoke-screen . |
13 | For the moment , however , it was not military advisers that the French wanted , but other types of military assistance , some of it symbolic but spectacular . |
14 | For those who wish to see , there are signs of a distinctive Major philosophy — some of it Thatcherite , some of it Labourish . |
15 | Ali Mirza , of the Pakistan Mountaineering Association , there has been a build-up of waste , some of it toxic , on the lower slopes of the most popular peaks , including unburied bodies of fallen climbers . |
16 | Continued agitation , some of it violent , by Jharkhand tribes for a separate Jharkhand homeland , covering the tribasl regions of the states of Bihar , Orissa , West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh , led to talks on May 31 , 1989 , between the Jharkhand Co-ordination Committee and the Bihar state government . |
17 | In 1553 he bought property in four counties , some of it ex-monastic , and by his death he had seventeen manors in five counties , besides London property . |
18 | If we can go out and show some of it first we 'll be hard to beat . |
19 | I ca n't speak for the others , but I do some of it each hour . |
20 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
21 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
22 | The vast majority of written material sent to the media ends up in the waste-bin — some of it unread ; this despite modern training in PR and the many courses which are now available . |
23 | Some of it explicit , the rest hidden teasingly away — cyphers within cyphers — as if for his eyes alone . |
24 | For those who wish to see , there are signs of a distinctive Major philosophy — some of it Thatcherite , some of it Labourish . |
25 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
26 | And he construed from exchanges with others that though they might talk confidently about their childhood and adolescence , much of it was rumour and conjecture ; some of it pure fabrication . |
27 | MIKE BURNS has followed his beguiling Yorkshire history with one on Surrey , equally beautifully filmed , with a fine array of early stills , some rare archive footage , some of it pre-1914 , and 20 or so interviews with players . |
28 | The pace of her expansion was matched only by Russia 's , but Russia 's was on a much smaller scale and depended on foreign capital , some of it German . |
29 | The interior was notable for medieval woodwork , important funerary monuments , and fine stained glass , some of it medieval and all now severely damaged . |
30 | Folklore has been passed down from generation to generation , some of it full of deep and obvious truth , some mere dogma of doubtful veracity . |