Example sentences of "of it on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ . |
| 2 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 3 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 4 | Right : sometimes it 's easier to get the hang of it on dry land |
| 5 | you 've got one ninety pence here and you 're spending ninety pence of it on one thing and sixty pence of the same money on another thing . |
| 6 | a miniature amount of it on audio description , so from that point of view there they , was sort of fairly well down the line with the money anyway they , they had |
| 7 | Robyn herself would disapprove of it on ideological grounds , and it might be interpreted by other students as creeping . |
| 8 | We have only a very limited amount of it on this planet , and to get the most from your life you need to fill it fruitfully . |
| 9 | She says she 's spent her life living modestly , as Eric wanted , but now she wants to blow a bit of it on some fun … |