Example sentences of "of it [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet most modern models of language , from Saussure 's onwards , give a fuller and more coherent account of it than traditional grammar ever did , and therefore offer the possibility of describing the linguistic features of texts far more exactly than was possible with the rag-bag of grammatical and metaphorical terminology on which criticism has traditionally depended . |
| 2 | Bullets ricocheted off the surface of a boulder , chipping pieces out of it but missing Kid Curry and Hannibal Hayes , alias Smith and Jones . |
| 3 | In the words of Lord Greene in Davies v Collins [ 1945 ] 1 All ER 247 : Whether or not in any given contract performance can properly be carried out by the employment of a sub-contractor , must depend on the proper inference to be drawn from the contract itself , the subject matter of it and other material surrounding circumstances . |
| 4 | They are light green and very delicate-looking , having a prominent midrib , several lateral veins on either side of it and numerous cross-veins . |
| 5 | This was , after all , the century of Balzac and of Hugo , with orchidaceous Romanticism at one end of it and gnomic symbolism at the other . |
| 6 | ( 194 ) He was very soon made to understand that he was not wanted in that corner of it where old Lingard and his own weak will placed him … |