Example sentences of "it [vb -s] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | That is indeed what I had intended suggesting to you , and it disposes of the immediate problem . ’ |
2 | ‘ Repatriation is evil , it smacks of the final solution . |
3 | ‘ Repatriation is evil , it smacks of the final solution . |
4 | It smacks of the Dickensian Society making pilgrimages to Rochester and Dover and Yarmouth ; or of ‘ poetry-lovers ’ haunting Grasmere and Coniston Water . |
5 | Apparently she receives the Ilkley newspaper regularly and read in it details of the Alternative Medicine Centre . |
6 | An advantage of this slender branch byway , which runs at a higher level than the main road , is the splendid panorama it affords of the encircling hills : across the valley the distant double-topped Frostrow merges in the long whaleback skyline of Rise Hill ; at the head is Great Knoutberry Hill carrying the railway ; rising to the left are the lower slopes of Whernside , succeeded by Great Coum beyond the gap of Deepdale , and finally Middleton Fell closes the horizon . |
7 | ‘ It sounds of the right order , ’ John said . |
8 | It consists of the following three components : ( 1 ) Benefits which have to be paid to the unemployed : these include unemployment benefit , supplementary benefit , housing benefit , government contributions to redundancy payments and payments to those men aged between sixty and sixty-five who no longer register as unemployed . |
9 | It consists of the following steps : |
10 | It consists of the key marketing variables that are offered to a market at a particular point in time . |
11 | It consists of the Eternal Triangle of Matthew , Mark and Luke and which one copied from the others . |
12 | It consists of the notional component of the finite verb and the rest of the message . |
13 | It consists of the registered graduates of the University together with all the members of Senate , the teaching staff and certain other officers ( such as the Vice-Chancellor ) . |
14 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
15 | These questions are all the more important in that the picture it paints of the real meaning of the New Testament , of Jesus ' message , and of the essential nature of Christianity , accurately reflects an understanding of the matter which is still very widespread among Christians in the present day , though usually in less sophisticated form . |
16 | Using powerful images of confinement and liberty it tells of the romantic but misguided attachment of Sibella , whose defiance towards her restrictive education leads on to her sexual maturity and death . |
17 | It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming . |
18 | The play tells several stories , such as young love , but most of all it tells of the magnificent Madame MacAdam and her troupe and of the comic and tragic effects they have upon an isolated community . |