Example sentences of "[noun] of it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The ending of the novel is too pat and contrived , but in the course of it Tabucchi has created an India which is constantly surprising and challenging to the European traveller/narrator/reader without ever allowing its mysticism or its exoticism to run away with it , for the sub-continent is also an ironically observed tourists ' India of hotels , buses , taxis , sights and restaurants . |
| 3 | The futility of it all fills the room . |
| 4 | One of the ‘ street toughs ’ , actually a DEA man , later wondered what the point of it all had been . |
| 5 | Statistics show the younger a wife is when she marries , the more likely the chance of it all ending in the divorce courts . |
| 6 | If they switch off and the closed-circuit figures drop , the present heady economics of it all begin to crumble . |
| 7 | And , if by some misfortune , he or she miscalculates and dares to put on even a tiny amount of excess fat , this is immediately dieted off within a week of it first appearing . |
| 8 | The clarity of design , the hope it contains , and the naivety of it all proves a welcome contrast to the rest of the exhibits . |
| 9 | Today , though , was not a suitable time to raise the subject of it all coming to an end . |
| 10 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 11 | ‘ The strain of it all brought on a heart attack . |
| 12 | He was endowed , alas , with a fragile nervous system , so that the strain of it all caused a build-up of neurosis that triggered one heart attack to end his playing career and another dozen years later that ended his life . |
| 13 | To the south-east the morning sun was tinting the misted tops of the Macgillycuddy Reeks , and the beauty of it all reminded her again of her father 's remarks to her about Ireland and Corcaguiney on that evening when he broke the news of her betrothal . |
| 14 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 15 | Hence we form a naïve idea of it that does not correspond to reality at all ( 111 ) , based perhaps — I am now going beyond what Wittgenstein says — on some superficial resemblance between the grammar of ‘ I thought … ’ and ‘ I felt … ’ ( cf. 7 ) . |
| 16 | Vologsky slammed his fist down upon the table as the injustice of it all descended upon him again . |
| 17 | The situation may arise where the taxpayer is on the face of it chargeable to tax under Case V of Schedule D and also caught by Part XV of the Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 18 | On the face of it Labour has a real chance of overturning the Tory majority of 2,661 . |
| 19 | On the face of it this seems like a good idea . |
| 20 | On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum . |
| 21 | A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . |