Example sentences of "of it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er so , that task , much of it under legislation , is carried out by fire officers and much of it as I say by good will and erm er advice to householders and bodies and erm big concerns and so on . |
| 2 | It is estate duty that is leviable in respect of it under Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 . |
| 3 | Now it appears to be on the ‘ at risk ’ register , its reputation battered and bruised , part of it under review before it has even reached its first birthday . |
| 4 | A great crater had been formed , most of it below sea level , and soundings showed that where land had once stood 300 metres above sea level , the water was now 300 metres deep . |
| 5 | This explains the consistency of the relation between birth weight and lung function and the lack of it between birth weight and respiratory illness . |
| 6 | Already he sported a blond mustache that was a passable imitation of the older man 's , and he twisted a strand or two of it between finger and thumb as he shot a comic grimace of pain in Joseph 's direction to convey his discomfort at the extravagant declaration of faith in him . |
| 7 | Television is full of it about election time . |
| 8 | We 'd have to put most of it into investment trusts |
| 9 | One pointer was the way that a growing percentage of the work-force was employed in the various activities of tourism , much of it of necessity on a shortterm or seasonal basis . |
| 10 | The National Trust owns a considerable land area , much of it of importance for nature conservation . |
| 11 | If discontinuity is the case , there is the alleged distinctiveness of recent crowd behaviour and explanations of it as part of a general transformation of the urban working class since 1945 to consider . |
| 12 | So it 's it 's vital that you get this exercise right and it , and you must n't just think of it as part of the study of History of Language , it 's not , it 's , it 's a er a definite part of your course . |
| 13 | I do n't sort of think of it as art going in the other direction . |
| 14 | Erm think of it as petrol . |
| 15 | So we put another wire on , do n't think of it as resistance , think of it as a conductor , it 's going to let some more current through . |
| 16 | Some of them think of it as shock tactics . |
| 17 | Buddhists for example would probably speak of it as progress towards a state of enlightenment in which persons are liberated from all false forms and images . |
| 18 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 19 | In addition Lloyds , having cashed his cheque , later demanded a photocopy of it as proof he had made the payment . |
| 20 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |
| 21 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 22 | There are three main uses of it as subject : ( a ) As a non-referring subject : it was raining ( no referent ) . |
| 23 | If you get into the maths , you get into the model , and you start thinking of it as reality erm even in a circuit , say simple things like Ohm 's Law . |
| 24 | We like to think of it as extortion do n't we ? |
| 25 | ‘ When you come to think of it , ’ she said afterwards , ‘ if you think of it as training , it must be far more toughening than those softy hot baths . |
| 26 | But if you think of it as model of whole world , as great cathedrals were said to be , or physicists ' models today ? |
| 27 | I ca n't think of it as fashion |
| 28 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 29 | When a tape is full , make a duplicate of it for storage elsewhere . |
| 30 | And so I took with I say with her blessing , took a er a picture of it for posterity . |