Example sentences of "of it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 2 | Glory may have departed from this earth , but faint traces or soft echoes of it persist in the unlikeliest recesses of mind and landscape . |
| 3 | I do n't necessarily agree with his solutions , but his philosophical concerns are relentlessly modern : the problem of sexual love ; the problem of sexual relationships ; and all of it enfolded by the problems of industry and the environment . |
| 4 | ‘ None of it mattered in the least . ’ |
| 5 | The 60-year-old former catering company director left more than Pounds 200,000 worth of debt , all of it spent on the other woman . |
| 6 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 7 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |
| 8 | There is a good deal of informal communication about courses in particular subjects , some of it passing along the external examiner grapevine , some of it through the ‘ invisible colleges ’ of research networks . |
| 9 | The Alte Post is old , parts of it dating from the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 10 | She said his name , the sound of it muffled against the pressure of his lips , and he murmured something back to her , moved with sudden fierceness , and the final thrust of his body sent them both tumbling down and down into a completely new dimension . |
| 11 | Since Shaw and his team took over profits have recorded a sevenfold increase to £218 million — two-thirds of it emanating from the rich North American market . |
| 12 | A staggering quantity of it related to the Daleks , most of which was farmed out to Terry Nation or Raymond Cusick , but the four main characters got their share as well . |
| 13 | Not only has it got the C it 's got the C O three , take the O out of it to go with the H |
| 14 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 15 | The District Councils have no money , the Government is not interested in cycling as a mode of transport , the Region does have a limited budget but most of it goes on the cycling team . |
| 16 | Most of it goes to your employees , some of it goes to the pension fund and a large slice goes to the government in tax and National Insurance . |
| 17 | But they , and many other organisations throughout society , also have the benefit of strongly supportive national policies and of state guaranteed funds on a scale that is not entirely incommensurate with the task of changing health determining habits : for a population the size of England 's , the total yearly Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 's budget is equivalent to around £140 million , and much of it goes to the voluntary sector . |
| 18 | So it varies from nothing to a lot of involvement , and much of it depends on the song . |
| 19 | The site is not in public ownership and any use of it depends on the agreement of the landowner , Mr Whewell . |
| 20 | By then the noise of the avalanche had died away , only the echoes of it reverberating across the valley , and when I shifted into the driving seat and looked back , the road behind us had ceased to exist . |
| 21 | Jones lists assets of $338,000 against debts of $1.6 million , most of it owed to the tax man . |
| 22 | Some of it got into the car and irritated my eyes : I had to take a hand off the steering wheel to rub them and it was almost wrenched out of my grasp as the car lurched into a hole in the road . |
| 23 | The IDA also supported the IIRS , expressing complete confidence in it and rejecting the criticism of it expressed at the meeting . |
| 24 | Take That have n't had an easy time of it breaking into the big time . |
| 25 | A lot of these queries , or some of it stems from the fact that we 're also conscious of the fact that we ca n't keep passing things to Gary when he 's only got one person |
| 26 | The next five years will be a battle — much of it fought in the Governor 's quarterly meeting with Lu Ping , head of Peking 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office . |
| 27 | This is limited because the light from the l.e.d. spreads out and only a fraction of it falls on the detector . |
| 28 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 29 | He thinks this demonstrates the vitality of Islam and of the unwillingness of the thinking Muslim to accept the harsh , intolerant version of it offered by the fundamentalists . |
| 30 | Some of it belongs to the years directly after 591 , when Gregory 's narrative comes to an end , and has the additional significance of casting some light on the later years of the reign of Childebert II ( 575 – 96 ) , which are otherwise poorly represented in the sources . |