Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diversity of material was due to the fact that much of it came courtesy of local mill-owners . |
| 2 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 3 | With it came strings of skin , leaving Zulei 's skull pitted with the strip-mines of her disease . |
| 4 | Once you decide to get rid of a Windows application , it 's vital to make copies of any important data you 've created with it to make copies of any important data you 've created with it before embarking on a ‘ slash and burn ’ policy . |
| 5 | Rather , it invents a sort of simplified version of the training set : When the net has finished learning , the nodes in it form clusters of just a few points which each reflect much larger clusters in the training set . |
| 6 | The world and everything in it shows signs of order and pattern , but such signs are inexplicable without the mind of a Planner . |
| 7 | ( d ) Party not to take advantage of his own wrong A lease will be construed so far as possible so as not to permit a party to it to take advantage of his own wrong . |
| 8 | My Exhilarator visor was still in the grass where I 'd left it and I sat down beside it to take stock of my stings , bruises and cuts . |
| 9 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 10 | If that right is not set out in the expert clause the agreement of the parties ( and , probably , the agreement of the expert as well ) will be needed for it to become part of the reference . |
| 11 | The door , — like most of the building that originally stood around it ! — is mid-fifteenth-century and through it went members of the family whose name is now attached to it , even though the family palazzo was elsewhere . |