Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector .
2 The SERC 's antiquated view of physics makes it extremely difficult for physicists working in some of these lively fields to obtain consistent support for their research .
3 The band of riders obeyed it sufficiently .
4 And I said and of course to do it really properly , you also have envelopes so that if you want to you can stick , stick the card in an envelope that will
5 The swift interactive response of the micro and its flexibility within a well-defined set of rules make it particularly effective in setting up game situations .
6 Mary was a stickler for accuracy , which is really needed in this job ; you also need a lot of patience to tackle it effectively .
7 The vitriol , talent and critical edge of NME made it indisputably the thinking kid 's po paper , especially after its nearest rival Sounds nailed its colours to the laddishness mast in the shape of Oi ! and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal .
8 After a minimum five years ' operating experience it would be time to think about taking a few orders for commercial stations , the first of which should come on stream about 2020 — always provided , of course , that the cost and dwindling resources of uranium made it commercially worthwhile :
9 And they could find themselves with , you know , somebody asking for a thousand of an item and it 's well worth their while therefore , spending a bit of money getting it there .
10 It will take a great deal of money to do it properly and I 'm only interested in doing it if I have the support to give me a chance of winning .
11 Brasshats do , and , seemingly , leaders of nations find it utterly impossible .
12 What we both need is a good strong cup of tea to wash it away .
13 He estimated that ‘ an extra year of elementary or secondary schooling really boosts future income less than 4% ; an extra year of college boosts it about 7% and a year of graduate school boosts it about 4% , There can be legitimate disagreement whether these figures indicate only a small effect of schooling on income .
14 This bias of Gregory makes it very difficult to assess the regularity of tax collection , but on one occasion the bishop of Tours does allow some insight into what appears to be the norm .
15 Thai food is far more interesting than Chinese or Indian , for the huge and accessible range of ingredients makes it potentially more elegant and surprising — in Thailand they are said to eat more than 250 raw ingredients in their yam ( salads , and pronounced ‘ yum ’ ) alone .
16 But a lot of youngsters use it too .
17 Then they got very in er after two years after the was had started erm South of England got it badly you see .
18 The fixing of the amounts of compensation made it very difficult for the investors to refuse and it was aimed at defending the DTI from outright criticism as well as preventing public uproar , he said .
19 Even in the case of Braque , whose development was more methodical than Picasso 's , the dating of certain works is problematical , and Picasso 's sporadic method of work makes it doubly hard .
20 The British crown lacked power ; Alexander III of Russia described it as ‘ hardly to be counted as a monarchy , but rather as a Crown by election ’ .
21 Like several such places it was a quiet little charity school until the railways came and boys could travel long distances to school and the Victorian needs of parents turned it over two decades into a modern and reputable independent school .
22 This product is enjoying a reasonable degree of marketing spend it never had before . ’
23 The availability of land and the cost of transport make it less likely that intensive livestock units will be within reach of suitable mink habitat .
24 It would be foolish to suppose that we can penetrate the causes of this striking movement with any precision ; but the example of John of Salisbury makes it abundantly clear that the love of travel , the fashion for wandering , played a major role .
25 The spectre of Bennery haunted it still .
26 Well there 's not a lot of point having it now
27 You 're frightened of doing stretched it altogether .
28 The second reason is that the ending of the war , like the starting of it , will require the intermediation of the UN ; and the Europeans , who progressively voted for all the Security Council resolutions which opened the door to war , will naturally seek another series of resolutions to close it again .
29 For example , the mobility of the evidence of pollution renders it potentially visible to a number of possible reporters but at the same time makes it more difficult to trace to its origin .
30 Its wide range of properties makes it more flexible than probably any other substance on earth .
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