Example sentences of "of it in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have a very lean time of it in winter , and if the spring grass does not come to their succour , they die in large numbers . |
| 2 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 3 | you can not protect the general theme or idea for a piece of sculpture , for example , but rather the fixed expression of it in stone or marble or , as mentioned , specific drawings in charcoal or some other medium worked on paper . |
| 4 | Oh I tell you what we used to have a dresser like this in front of of of a of a h of a of a at home and er mother used to make a a jelly and she used to put it underneath the dresser and put a plate on on top of it in case the mice would get it . |
| 5 | Lord Wilson found nothing untoward about the quality of that Chequers discussion when I reminded him of it in conversation more than ten years later . |
| 6 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon Inc puts the need to fire 15% of its workforce — and the consequent $2.7m loss for the quarter to April 3 ( CI No 2,156 ) down to the fact that — in common with most other manufacturers in its area — is now doing little of its own manufacturing but sub-contracts most of it in order to benefit from application of the latest techniques in areas such as surface mounting . |
| 7 | Alternatively , if the beaker of water was previously at a higher temperature energy would have been transferred out of it in order to reach a temperature of 50°C . |
| 8 | While a shareware Windows spell checker is available , you can only get hold of it in English . |
| 9 | And all of it in English ! |
| 10 | Curious as to what made it work , he built a crude model of it in wood . |
| 11 | The Zuckerman books are a medley of differences and affinities between what we are able to infer about Roth 's life and what he has made of it in art . |
| 12 | Yorkshire .... 29 Durham ....... 16 FORCED to abandon the selection policy that in recent seasons embraced many of the top players qualified for the county but living well out of it in favour of those representing clubs within the broad acres , Yorkshire made an emphatic and ebullient start at Otley in an effort to regain the title they last won in 1987 . |
| 13 | Rather , it is because , ‘ Weary of living in a continual state of war , and of enjoying liberty rendered useless by the uncertainty of preserving it , [ we ] sacrifice a part so that [ we ] might enjoy the rest of it in peace and safety ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 14 | We saw , for example , signs of it in Popper 's differentiated model of the three worlds of knowledge , with objective knowledge residing in a quite different world from those of human consciousness and of physical objects . |
| 15 | In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula . |
| 16 | money must retain its value , otherwise people will get rid of it in exchange for real ( intrinsic ) commodities ; |
| 17 | ‘ You may have heard of it in history class in school . ’ |
| 18 | But it is still the case that through the reading of it in church a certain image of what it means to be male or female is conveyed . |
| 19 | A lot has happened in the seven months since Ford unveiled its new Escort range — and not much of it in accordance with its £1 billion master plan . |
| 20 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 21 | If you think of it in relationship to the size of your cooker at home and the size of the convection ovens in the eighth floor kitchen or in they 're much larger and therefore you are more able to cook volume . |
| 22 | In his covering letter he mentioned yet another title and gave the Wagnerian aspect an unexpected prominence : " I have written a pamphlet … which is to have the title " Music and Tragedy " , and I am sending you the beginning of it in manuscript . |
| 23 | Alas , solitude is not very likely , there is so little of it in life , so what can we expect after death ! |
| 24 | There was no longer just the promise of investment , but much of it in place . |
| 25 | Acceptance of a proposition in principle and rejection of it in practice is a perfectly normal human attitude , as common outside politics as inside . |
| 26 | It is possible to have a theory of law which stops short of explaining legal obligation as we are aware of it in practice , that is the obligation which articulates the morally-sound reasons for compliance . |
| 27 | Even though we want the judgements of young doctors to be securely based on the evidence , we want to feel that they have not just assiduously acquired the necessary knowledge , but also have immediate first-hand understanding of it in practice , having conducted patient examinations , observed relevant operations , and so forth . |
| 28 | Deep-sea fishing had entirely disappeared , but there was some expansion in the inshore sector , much of it in fishing for prawns . |
| 29 | Since it is one of the most natural of all pleasures , the Church should not be afraid to provide opportunities for enjoyment of it in worship . |
| 30 | An example of it in use , and you must have ex what I 'm saying , it 's very important to have empirical erm , examples in your essays , right , because they will also be required in the short answer questions as well . |