Example sentences of "of it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 2 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 3 | because making a thing of it creates the wrong atmosphere for talking about sex ( justification of opinion ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were men half-hidden by piled-up mountains of coloured balloons at some of the street corners , a relic , Ward said , of the magnificent feathered headdresses of the Aztecs , and with the stillness of evening the dust haze had gone , so that the huge square of the Zócalo had a brooding sense of peace , the cathedral 's twin towers still touched with the sunset 's warmth and the great mass of it dominating the presidential palace . |
| 6 | They set themselves the task of creating a full-scale replica of it using the original Roman techniques . |
| 7 | A chain wound its way round various wheels and cogs and at the end of it hung a large bucket . |
| 8 | AND still there are two nations in England , if only because part of it thinks the other part is somewhere else . |
| 9 | His ink drawing of the parsonage ( and the church with its tower across the road ) and a photograph of it show a large , long , impressive building on two floors , the front door surrounded by thirteen windows . |
| 10 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 11 | The knowledge of it caused a strange mixture of pride and jealousy , love and hatred , which troubled him and even now made him stay his hand before announcing his decision . |
| 12 | " the true excellence of the English constitution [ is ] that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other . |
| 13 | Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the splash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin . |
| 14 | When Her Majesty used this coach , a platform , or flat truck was placed ahead of it to give an unobstructed view . |
| 15 | Even now , when it has in plate tectonics a unifying , fundamental theory , much of it remains an observational science , intuitive to the point of subjectivity . |
| 16 | De Gaulle had clearly created this confrontation , but it would be misleading to suggest that his courting of it represented a fundamental change in direction , either in ideology or method . |
| 17 | The chance of it getting the entire phrase of 28 characters right is ( 1/27 ) to the power 28 , i.e. ( 1/27 ) multiplied by itself 28 times . |
| 18 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 19 | The chance of it getting the first word-METHINKS — right is 1/27 for each of the 8 letters , therefore ( 1/27 ) x ( 1/27 ) x ( 1/27 ) x ( 1/27 ) . , |
| 20 | The chance of it getting the first two letters-ME-right is the chance of it getting the second letter- E-right ( 1 in 27 ) given that it has also got the first letter — M — right , therefore 1/27 x 1/27 , which equals 1/729 . |
| 21 | Leave the groove of Primevil as soon as possible and stay within 6 metres of it to reach a poor belay at the foot of a groove in the first tier of the wall above the slab ( about 50m ) . |
| 22 | A street lamp threw faint light and out of it came a young woman . |
| 23 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 24 | But now , along the middle of it came an old woman pushing a hand-cart on which was a pile of rags . |
| 25 | In that decade European men won almost a quarter of the 40 major championships played and for most of it dominated the top ten in the world rankings . |
| 26 | Happy when they were together , when she was left alone she fretted , missing his presence and the way the light moved round his body as he enthusiastically used every inch of it to express the slightest emotion . |
| 27 | A number of further points should be noted : ( 1 ) If the financial adviser is acting for a newly-formed bidder ( eg an " off-the-shelf " company ) , the standard of care required of it has a special dimension . |
| 28 | Victor 's face as the match flares in front of it has the rapt attention of a man lighting a fuse . |
| 29 | Surely the question is whether the land on each side of it has the same greenbelt function , or different greenbelt functions ? |
| 30 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |