Example sentences of "it [vb -s] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , it staves of the risk of an epileptic fit . |
| 2 | However , Kubota promises to demonstrate what it has of the subsystem at a series of private viewings during the show . |
| 3 | The issue of decentralization of services to local bases in the community has inevitably brought with it questions of the decentralization of budgets . |
| 4 | That is indeed what I had intended suggesting to you , and it disposes of the immediate problem . ’ |
| 5 | It smacks of the Dickensian Society making pilgrimages to Rochester and Dover and Yarmouth ; or of ‘ poetry-lovers ’ haunting Grasmere and Coniston Water . |
| 6 | ‘ Repatriation is evil , it smacks of the final solution . |
| 7 | ‘ Repatriation is evil , it smacks of the final solution . |
| 8 | It warns of the danger of short-term economic gains compared with a ‘ well-considered strategy involving massive investment by public and private sectors ’ . |
| 9 | I speak through this and it bounces of the dish to the other one . |
| 10 | Apparently she receives the Ilkley newspaper regularly and read in it details of the Alternative Medicine Centre . |
| 11 | An advantage of this slender branch byway , which runs at a higher level than the main road , is the splendid panorama it affords of the encircling hills : across the valley the distant double-topped Frostrow merges in the long whaleback skyline of Rise Hill ; at the head is Great Knoutberry Hill carrying the railway ; rising to the left are the lower slopes of Whernside , succeeded by Great Coum beyond the gap of Deepdale , and finally Middleton Fell closes the horizon . |
| 12 | To repeat , the association between homosexuality and the sexual lite of a woman is not necessarily insulting to either ; it is only that Mailer 's denigrating version of it forewarns of the crassness of the version of sexual difference which constitutes both the origin and horizon of his vision , and once again indicates an intense apprehensiveness in the face of imagined male passivity , and the way it is oft en conceived in terms of a denigrated and denigrating femininity at once utterly alien to yet strangely inherent within the male . |
| 13 | ‘ It sounds of the right order , ’ John said . |
| 14 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 15 | It consists of the Eternal Triangle of Matthew , Mark and Luke and which one copied from the others . |
| 16 | It consists of the registered graduates of the University together with all the members of Senate , the teaching staff and certain other officers ( such as the Vice-Chancellor ) . |
| 17 | It consists of the following three components : ( 1 ) Benefits which have to be paid to the unemployed : these include unemployment benefit , supplementary benefit , housing benefit , government contributions to redundancy payments and payments to those men aged between sixty and sixty-five who no longer register as unemployed . |
| 18 | It consists of the kind of works Brusberg has always championed : pictures of people . |
| 19 | It consists of the following steps : |
| 20 | It consists of the notional component of the finite verb and the rest of the message . |
| 21 | It consists of the finals of a drama competition between branches which fills the period between Congresses . |
| 22 | They assert that though their ‘ non decision-making situation ’ ( ‘ preventing certain grievances from developing into full fledged issues ’ ) is not observable , being a non-event , nevertheless , the non-decision-making process is indeed observable since it consists of the mobilisation of bias around a latent issue , both of which are discernible . |
| 23 | It consists of the bass-parts for each choir , placed one above the other , with bar-lines but no text or figures to indicate how he was to fill out the bass , only an occasional flat or sharp above the notes ; when in the Masses a movement begins in a higher part only , this is shown in the organ part ; but when the higher voices sing without the bass , the organ part is marked ‘ tacet ’ or ‘ non est hic ’ . |
| 24 | It consists of the key marketing variables that are offered to a market at a particular point in time . |
| 25 | It consists of the discount market and the parallel money markets . |
| 26 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |
| 27 | However , since it is more than a mere sign , it partakes of the reality it signifies and is a means of grace through which the atoning work of Christ is made effective in the life of the Christian . |
| 28 | Analogically the sacrament can certainly be understood as ‘ sacrifice ’ in the sense that if it partakes of the reality it represents , the ‘ once-for-all ’ sacrifice of Calvary is applied to us as we celebrate the victory as well as the mystery of the cross . |
| 29 | These questions are all the more important in that the picture it paints of the real meaning of the New Testament , of Jesus ' message , and of the essential nature of Christianity , accurately reflects an understanding of the matter which is still very widespread among Christians in the present day , though usually in less sophisticated form . |
| 30 | Drawing on the trauma Miller suffered when his wife enjoyed a lesbian affair with a failed artist , it tells of the trauma a writer suffers when his wife … |