Example sentences of "it [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd even begun to mistake it for part of my own body , an incurable growth that I 've got to learn to live with . |
| 2 | I thought you had to put the lid on it for , if you did it for quarter of an hour ? |
| 3 | He put some very special old wine on the table in front of the King and said , ‘ Duke Michael offers you this wine and asks you to drink it for love of him . ’ |
| 4 | On the same day , the Irish government promised a detailed study of the loophole in the extradition law , which prevented extradition for possession of , but would have allowed it for use of , a firearm . |
| 5 | I think he was frightened to give it for fear of hurting me . ’ |
| 6 | My index finger was sleeved in frost and I dared not bend it for fear of splitting the skin . |
| 7 | Eventually he falls asleep , one arm outflung across her breasts so that she does not dare move it for fear of waking him , and , constricted , can not sleep herself . |
| 8 | For the next four years a great part of my time was spent in secret meditation upon this subject , I could not speak to anybody about it for fear of giving pain . |
| 9 | Even among the 3 men who aligned with the UUUC , there was reluctance to identify too closely with it for fear of losing a stratum of middle-class voters more conscious of social status than constitutional complexities . |
| 10 | We found the locals do n't like to talk about it for fear of putting off money-spinning tourists . |
| 11 | Instead of proceeding against " The Independent " for breach of confidence , the Government prosecuted it for contempt of court , committed by flouting the spirit of the injunction imposed on " The Guardian " . |
| 12 | Or is it as Head of the Commonwealth ? |
| 13 | Despite the fact that the sale agreement will treat income arising after the transfer date as belonging to the purchaser , the Inland Revenue are likely to treat it as income of the vendor . |
| 14 | This comparison may form the crucial part of a description ; later on , using comparison as a criterion , that a portrait should look like the sitter , that landscape should look natural , and the objects in a still life should be identifiable , a critic can use it as part of an evaluation . |
| 15 | DRG has spread the surplus over 8.5 years , which is long enough to justify valuing it as part of the overall earnings stream . |
| 16 | I was interested in drawing but I never saw it as part of a potential career . |
| 17 | Some ministers were at first embarrassed at what they regarded as her ‘ preaching ’ and ‘ moralizing ’ but in the end accepted it as part of the Thatcher style . |
| 18 | In those days , Cadbury 's saw it as part of its social responsibility to provide training and education for the workers it recruited . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Later he came to rationalise that , seeing it as part of a family pattern . |
| 21 | Probable sad answer : cling to it as part of Britain 's eccentric genius . |
| 22 | Even if we notice that the new dog has become a follower , we regard it as part of a strong friendship . |
| 23 | If you are under pressure to eat out socially you should be able to do this and include it as part of your regime without having to compensate by going hungry at some time prior to the meal out . |
| 24 | Modigliani painted hair when he saw it as part of his design . |
| 25 | If the scheme is successful in Europe , we shall extend it as part of our domestic programme for M.I. 5 and M.I. 6 , thereby clearing the congestion on the M.I. 25 , M4 , M5 and M1 . |
| 26 | Again , this feature was copied from the West Indians who used it as part of their own hairstyles . |
| 27 | In 1984 Sir Antony Duff was moved to the directorship of MI5 , the Security Service , to clean it up after the Security Commission had criticized it as part of its investigation of the Bettaney affair . |
| 28 | I shall certainly be interested in carrying on with it as part of my natural diet now . |
| 29 | This was the voice of a separate business activity , the credit industry , for which money-lending was conducted to make its own profit , not just as a means of increasing the sales of the company who employed it as part of its marketing . |
| 30 | This means that it will be impossible to grow it as part of the decoration , or to expect it to be self-sustaining . |