Example sentences of "of it [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 2 | Understand what it is we are trying to achieve by cutting off a lot of top growth , and the where , when and how of it lose much of the mystery . |
| 3 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 4 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 5 | In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds . |
| 6 | The incident , and his own weak , almost contemptible handling of it came near to making his third premiership seem to himself and others an ill-judged prolongation of power , a disastrous epilogue to the rest of his career . |
| 7 | The rest of it remained open until the early seventeenth century , when new enclosures led to major agrarian unrest in the shire , with Cotesbach at the centre of it . |
| 8 | Though the vessel does not have an engine or a conventional rudder , it has been equipped with a thruster unit to give some manoeuvrability in the rare event of it going adrift from its location about two miles from the Alba platform . |
| 9 | I 'd always understood that land should only go into the greenbelt if it was necessary to be kept permanently open , by reason of it performing one of the five purposes . |
| 10 | Haemoglobin is doing an important job in the blood , and its details really matter ; but several alternative variants of it seem capable of doing the job equally well . |