Example sentences of "of it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes .
2 After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating .
3 But both Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon … established extensions of it beyond a simple gift of a chattel by its delivery : the former to a gift of money secured by a bond , by delivery of the bond ; the latter to a gift of money secured by a mortgage of land , by delivery of the mortgage deed .
4 There 's a lot of it about A late-season flu bug has bitten Scotland , writes Ian Mullen
5 One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me .
6 The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect .
7 She was winding one end of it into a little ball .
8 The alternative is to scare off the enemy and this is done by inflating the body and raising the rear end of it towards the approaching assailant .
9 The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies .
10 Since then , techniques such as seismic surveys , mechanised geochemical analysis , and isotopic research , have become available , and the theoretical framework of research in these geologically interesting areas has provided the potential for a great deal of re-interpretation , some of it of a fundamental nature , contributing to theoretical developments in geology .
11 It is the decisions , the policies , the judgement , motives , principles and ambitions , the skill and lack of it of the leading political actors which are decisive .
12 Central to those ideals had been — at least since 1922 when Tawney published his Secondary Education for All — the extension of secondary schooling ( although , less precisely , not all of it of the grammar-school variety ) to the whole of the population .
13 He was sufficiently well-informed to be able to declare that it was a scandal that the town lacked any kind of orchestra , whereas Clara would have taken the lack of it as a simple act of God .
14 But when an idea or the picture is false , we are more conscious of it as a separate thing , for we can clearly see it as a preconception or a prejudice .
15 But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality .
16 He preferred another conception of the world , the conception of it as a familiar , warm , colourful , sound-filled place to be shared with others — and perhaps especially with Daisy .
17 I think about the year that 's gone past , perhaps , people who 've passed out of my life , and think of it as a new beginning , and I wish as Scots that we would hold on to it and perpetuate that tradition and get away from gathering around the T V in Hogmanay .
18 We call it now , the Battle of Britain , and think of it as a great victory .
19 She also thought of it as a great household , in which her son could find a favoured place .
20 It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique .
21 If you could cut out the sound track of shells and sniper fire , ignore the gaping holes in the beautiful buildings and the lack of water and electricity , and did n't notice the rubbish in the streets , you would think of it as a normal city . ’
22 If you try to think of it as a closed totality you get into the problems of historicism ; if you try to think of it as entirely differentiated , then it becomes meaningless since there is no necessary connection , positive or negative , to anything else , nor would any one history produce any effect on another .
23 Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent
24 MOST Mexicans refer to the Yucatan peninsula as ‘ the south-east ’ , and think of it as a poor relation memorable only for its Mayan ruins and the resort of Cancun .
25 He had always thought of it as a superficial and outmoded gesture found only in old novels .
26 ‘ I think of it as a stuffy old family that wants to celebrate the birthday of an aged aunt .
27 Later research seems to show that Malinowski mis-understood a number of key features of the system he described , but it is certainly the case that the participants in the Kula conceive of it as a circulating system of exchange .
28 In France the concept was assailed by the powerful extremes on both the right and the left : Charles de Gaulle 's contemptuous dismissal of it as a directionless ‘ mish-mash ’ was matched by the ideological opposition of the Communist Party .
29 In my mood of delight , I thought of it as a beautiful idea for these were roads that go nowhere , nowhere that could interest men .
30 He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal .
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