Example sentences of "of it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a small but good library , much of it kept on shelves on the first landing . |
| 2 | The impossibility of it grew in Paul 's mind , and by the time he reached his lodgings that was made up . |
| 3 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 4 | You will be acknowledged by name in the final credits of the Video in the event of it proceeding to completion and in any video credits in the accompanying print material which may be published . |
| 5 | You will be acknowledged by name in the final credits of the Video in the event of it proceeding to completion and in any video credits in the accompanying print material which may be published . |
| 6 | You will be acknowledged by name in the final credits of the Video in the event of it proceeding to completion and in any video credits in the accompanying print material which may be published . |
| 7 | But to judge something relevant to the choice of a spontaneously emerging goal as end , it is enough — as we have insisted from the first — that awareness of it does in fact act causally on the spontaneous inclination . |
| 8 | York 's renaissance under Ward is the work of a team costing just Pounds 50,000 — all of it spent on striker Paul Barnes , signed during the close-season from Stoke . |
| 9 | ‘ And he dreamed , and behold a ladder set up on the earth , and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it . ’ |
| 10 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 11 | In this perspective also President Reagan 's ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ was more than a Star Wars nuclear strategy ; SDI was also seen as yet another way of pumping more billions of government dollars into advanced research , much of it related to information technology . |
| 12 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 13 | The lump is more or less intact , though crumbs of it stick to Perry 's fringe . |
| 14 | None of it goes on salaries or administration because all of that is covered by sponsorship or by the interest on banked money . |
| 15 | A large part of it goes to Japan . |
| 16 | Now all of it overlaid with azure and hyacinth , however hard she squeezed her eyelids shut . |
| 17 | Learning how to love — you see a lot of it depends on benevolence , as I say , there 's caring for other people , you see , developing a sense of community , you see , it is avoiding the sort of things we get into in Northern Ireland , erm Cyprus , Lebanon , where you get these absolutely nightmarish cultures of violence that just go on generation after generation and are utterly useless . |
| 18 | Stubbs cites many other examples of how written language may involve structural ambiguity so that making grammatical sense of it depends on context and the knowledge the reader brings to the text ( e.g. ibid. p. 59 ) . |
| 19 | They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development . |
| 20 | This created the conditions which were to set the pattern of religious justification for strife for centuries to come , and there is little doubt that nearly all , if not all wars in historic time have had some kind of religion or ‘ god ’ put forward as requiring the human race , or parts of it to engage in bloodshed and misery . |
| 21 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 22 | The magazine teetered from Hans Crescent to Redcliffe Square to Park Lane , with parts of it strewn over Pearce Marchbank 's flat in Hampstead . |
| 23 | Most of this falls back into the sea , as rain or snow , but 100 000 cubic kilometres of it falls on land . |
| 24 | If it was not until later that the accused discovered that he had been overpaid it is suggested that the money no longer belongs to another because ownership of it passes on payment . |
| 25 | Having seen photographs of ancient Cretan coins portraying a labyrinth or maze , I was longing to see whether any trace of it survives at Knossos , a three-and-a-half-hour bus ride east along the coast road , just past Heraklion . |
| 26 | Oliver North to Iran , travelling on Irish passports , to organize the sale of TOW missiles and launchers to the Iranian government in exchange for the release of American hostages ; details of money transfers and bank accounts , with dates and places — most of it based on incidents and conversations that could only have been known to the Iranian or American negotiators . |
| 27 | The subject of obsolescence has generated a considerable amount of literature , most of it based on citation studies — that is , studies showing the number of times that individual books or periodical articles are cited in the lists of references given at the end of a piece of research ( a method , it can be seen , which is distinct from studies of actual library use ) . |
| 28 | Llhuyd paid a shilling to the verger for a portion of it , for it seems it had long been the practice to saw off portions of it to sell to pilgrims probably an early example of Welsh private enterprise . |
| 29 | Where the term breached is a less important term , a warranty , breach merely entitles the victim of it to sue for damages and does not allow the victim to end the contract . |
| 30 | Most of it lay in Great Britain , in a northern belt running from Lens and Lys in France across Belgium to the Ruhr , and in the Lorraine-Saar-Luxembourg region . |