Example sentences of "[noun sg] of it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Just so she can change her perception of it all . |
| 3 | British Telecom plans to install about 100 000 km of fibre by the end of the decade , the great bulk of it multimode . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I really do n't think I could tolerate the loss of it all . ’ |
| 7 | My understanding of English was competent , but my command of it uncertain . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Whether children will get a better education as a result of it all is by no means clear . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the end result of it all was that by the '60s Hawaiian music was regarded with pretty much universal contempt . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , there is n't space to illustrate it in this issue , but I will include a photograph of it next time . |
| 13 | The irony of it all was not lost on her . |
| 14 | The irony of it all ! |
| 15 | The irony of it all is that Jim does not eat fish . |
| 16 | And the irony of it all was that Fernando had n't planned it that way . |
| 17 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 18 | He found his last meeting with the Shah a profoundly emotional experience and told the Shah he was so moved by the tragedy of it all that he would rather not speak . |
| 19 | That is the tragedy of it all . |
| 20 | THE one thing guaranteed to dampen your enthusiasm for home brewing was the uncertainty of it all . |
| 21 | If only they had fought , screamed at one another , gone their separate ways , even had lovers … anything but the sterility of it all , a sterility that had finally been injected into everything they touched . |
| 22 | Due to the expanded floor hole , the blue-grey atmospheric rubbish is now whooshing , spurting , billowing upwards to conceal the perpetrator of it all , making the carriage a hazy , out of focus , 3-dimensional black and white TV image . |
| 23 | Coffee , oranges , apples , fresh warm bread , thick creamy milk — she could n't believe the luxury of it all . |
| 24 | But Broderick looks almost depressed by the tedium of it all , so bored he does n't quite know what to do with himself . |
| 25 | The personal side of it all is unbearable . ’ |
| 26 | The erotic side of it all developed , of course , rapidly and by itself , gathering more and more momentum , like a stone rolling down a hill . |
| 27 | Now we come to the ironical side of it all . |
| 28 | Maybe I 'll see the funny side of it one day . |
| 29 | Several admirable but narrow-banded supporters ' organisations rail and rattle at the iniquity of it all and occasionally they are even permitted to have a say at the distant end of a long table . |
| 30 | I can hear the murmur of it all in my head , and smell the sweet air . |