Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Play Kylie or Jason at it and it soon dies of boredom . |
| 2 | You may or may not be familiar with Acton , one gets a glimpse of it from the train , but it largely consists of railway yards , goods depots , great piles of broken-up cars . |
| 3 | When breakfast is taken it usually consists of cereal and milk , or toast spread with hard margarine or butter and jam or marmalade . |
| 4 | Be it ever so humble it still smells of shit , eh ? ’ |
| 5 | It always smells of pedantry , and not always of learning . |
| 6 | Well , it could be loosely defined as the cell-wall material of plants but only loosely , because it also consists of substances associated with these cell walls . |
| 7 | It also complained of gaps in the information provided by the US Customs shipping records used for the study , the only public source of data on pesticide exports : the names of more than 74% of the 477 million pounds of pesticides exported in 1991 were not recorded . |
| 8 | I 've got a big wardrobe at the moment but it mainly consists of shoes — I bought these boots from Read or Dead . ’ |
| 9 | The volumetric analysis covered in the chemical methods section is unnecessarily long because it mainly consists of acid-base and indicator theory that can be found in standard A-level textbooks . |
| 10 | What it really means of course is that erm I 've committed ourselves to doing the dare I say it , the odd jobs . |
| 11 | It breaks down readily — indeed , if allowed to become damp it invariably smells of ammonia , which is the indication that the nitrogen is already being released and lost into the air . |
| 12 | It told , in a pitiless staccato , of the screenplays he had published in various laptop broadsheets and comically obscure pamphlets ; it even told of screenplays published in his university magazine . |
| 13 | This does n't mean it actually tastes of grapes — only wines made from Muscat grapes do so . |