Example sentences of "of it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To win a pound of gold the Rand miners had on the average to raise , crush and purify some sixty-seven tons of ore , much of it under extreme temperatures and from great depths . |
| 2 | Because his wife had made dishes of it as first-night presents for the cast , apart from Titania , who was on a diet and would have to be dealt with in some other way . |
| 3 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 4 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 5 | I would n't be without this for the world and use it , or parts of it for different jobs all the time . |
| 6 | The break-up specialist may have an interest in retaining certain parts of the company or he may wish to dispose of all of it to other companies . |
| 7 | Mrs K. Battye 's local history class have mapped the information recorded in the 1881 census returns and have related much of it to existing buildings . |
| 8 | Mr Warburton , whose responsibility it was to run an efficient , economic , and safe railway , had considered the CIOR 's embargo to be prohibitive and had issued his own perceived clarification of it to regional managers before the meeting at which the new Newton lay-out was approved . |
| 9 | Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’ |
| 10 | They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages . |
| 11 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 12 | Robyn herself would disapprove of it on ideological grounds , and it might be interpreted by other students as creeping . |
| 13 | More can be learned about the nature of sale from a comparison of it with other contracts . |
| 14 | I mean a real Safeway , you know , the ones you see in the U S where everything you know , even the trolleys , are seven times bigger , erm n n not like they are , you know , the aliens land in the car park of the Maple Valley Safeways in Washington State , and , and observe people coming out of it with enormous piles of shopping . |
| 15 | She is right , she does n't , though when I catch a glimpse of her left arm , her bruises are pink and prominent , crawling the length of it like squashed insects . |
| 16 | The waste , including banned pesticides and fungicides , much of it in inadequate containers , was produced by companies in the former East Germany . |
| 17 | I am doubtful ; I suggest that we have all just become more aware of it in recent years , more ready to take it into new forms . |
| 18 | Tony Young [ Teesside 's Waste Disposal Manager ] delves into the UK 's waste and looks at how we dispose of it in Environmental Issues ' latest feature on major environmental matters . |
| 19 | His aim is to show what are the taken-for-grated rules of conversation and how we describe the world to one another so that we all make sense of it in similar ways . |
| 20 | That software will be DB2 with SQL capability ( or , if you prefer to think of it in other terms , SQL with an accessible DB2 engine ) . |
| 21 | Karlinsky painted a grim picture — endless hardship , unceasing toil and sweat , back-breaking labour in hostile climatic conditions , some of it in malaria-ridden areas . |
| 22 | Perhaps this is due to the erroneous descriptions of it in early texts as ‘ a large , dull , uninteresting fish , difficult to keep ’ , coupled with confusion caused by some retail outlets offering the natural or ‘ wild ’ form of Orange Chromide ( Etroplus maculatus ) as ‘ Green Chromide ’ . |
| 23 | At first Daedalus sought a lubricating oil freezing at about 0°C , with some idea of boiling tons of it in vast kettles set up near ski slopes . |
| 24 | The 500,000 acres of water authority land , much of it in national parks and areas of outstanding beauty , was ‘ a massive inducement ’ to the City to take over the industry . |
| 25 | Such a one , though most of it in French hands , was enfiladed by a German machine gun at each end , which exacted a steady toll . |
| 26 | Illegal narcotics contributed at least $5 billion a year to the Syrian economy , almost all of it in American dollars and other hard currencies . |
| 27 | He broke new ground in musical humour when in 1956 he organized the first of a series of concerts of symphonic caricature at which new music , some of it by respected composers like Malcolm Arnold , was played on ludicrous instruments or to the accompaniment of vacuum cleaners or road rammers . |
| 28 | Imported coal continued to be unloaded , some of it from Communist countries . |
| 29 | Although it is certainly true that individuals can gain a false idea about the ease of making money on the Stock Market , there is also no doubt that privatisation has generated substantial interest in the Stock Market , much of it from new investors . |
| 30 | He had not visited the place he was seeking before , but he knew it was there , and had heard tales of it from numerous acquaintances . |