Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |
| 2 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 3 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 4 | To appreciate Althusser 's work one must first of all understand why so much of it takes the form of an exposition and defence of Marx 's writings . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone thinks the Amaranth Line was enormously wealthy , but so much of it went in the Sorcery Wars — dear me , I intended no discourtesy , sir . |
| 6 | There is , for a start , so much of it to watch and talk about . |
| 7 | It would be sensible to cut off most of her hair , but so much of it had grown when her parents were alive that it seemed somehow unfaithful to their memory to scissor it all away . |
| 8 | ( Feb 20-Mar 20 ) You should read the forecast for Sagittarius , so much of it applies to you at the moment . |
| 9 | They water it down , that 's how come there 's so much of it knocking around . ’ |
| 10 | Most of it comes think so , I mean so much of it comes from the North American Indians that |
| 11 | A second characteristic of the collaboration in these classrooms was that so much of it appeared to arise spontaneously . |
| 12 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 13 | Thanks to the Under-Secretary , he 's left us with precious little of it to waste ! ’ |
| 14 | Dunlop 's surplus was therefore distributed and nearly all of it went to Morrison to put him 819 above McLachlan which was much more than the undistributed surplus of Lindsay . |
| 15 | nearly all of it 's got ta go really , there 's two gas fires out there |
| 16 | Before the war Burma had the biggest inland water fleet in the world ; practically all of it went . |
| 17 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 18 | Now all of it overlaid with azure and hyacinth , however hard she squeezed her eyelids shut . |
| 19 | Ireland has had so much , she thought ; there has been so much magic and so much strength , and now all of it has gone . |
| 20 | The question was out even before she was really aware of it forming in her mind , but if he was surprised by her sudden change of tack , he did n't show it . |
| 21 | You just want a quick glance at it to see what she , oh well half of it 's saved and then a bit more than a quarter . |
| 22 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 23 | The sort of gesture that might , reasonably , allow a chap to knock over a bottle of wine and make sure at least half of it got all over Donald 's plate . |
| 24 | Snow ( 1977 ) and Wells and Robinson ( 1982 ) for reviews ) , almost all of it showing that adults systematically adjust their speech when talking with young children . |
| 25 | There are thousands of metres of film of eruptions and hectares of accounts in newspapers and books , almost all of it devoted to the ‘ human interest ’ situations that arise whenever natural events interrupt the pattern of human life . |
| 26 | By 1985 the Really Useful Company was showing a £2.7 million profit incredibly , almost all of it coming from one source , Cats , Lloyd Webber 's biggest money-spinner yet . |
| 27 | But undeterred , he can still visualise the enormous potential of a bank that even last year managed to make record operating profits of £2 billion , only to see ‘ almost all of it swept away by debt provisions ’ . |
| 28 | The town was small and neat , typical of the towns of the area , almost all of it built around the central square , which was shaded by high trees . |
| 29 | If we use the art of repetition and change , this small idea can then grow and help make all the music , or at least enough of it to generate a formal logic , a compelling emotional experience for those who listen . |
| 30 | Every now and again some of it fell off , sometimes on to the lane , often on to the nomes stumbling along it . |