Example sentences of "of it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This will condense and form a fine dust much of which will return to the surface , most of it a long way from the impact .
2 And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another .
3 In course of it a young woman came up to her .
4 The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied .
5 Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs .
6 Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper .
7 Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use .
8 At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees .
9 So information becomes a valuable commodity , and the gathering of it a labour-intensive industry .
10 There is a double set of front pockets on each side — first a zipped pocket and in front of it an open patch pocket , and both are excellent , deep pockets .
11 Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign .
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