Example sentences of "it [vb -s] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , since 1915 other theories of gravity have been advanced , though the great majority of scientists today accept Einstein 's General Theory and the explanation that it offers of Mercury 's precession . |
| 2 | Ludens , who had been watching this face attentively for some time , could now however read in it signs of care , a wrinkling of the brow , not marked exactly in any lines of flesh but as a cloud poised , the mouth and eyes narrowing as in thought or pain , the hints of a perhaps imminent older face . |
| 3 | I spoon some health and vitality into my mouth ; it tastes of sawdust . |
| 4 | ‘ Have some of my hock : it tastes of furniture polish . ’ |
| 5 | In the Baronnies you can see where the country is going hang , and very pretty it looks of course , with wild flowers flourishing where there were once crops or grazing animals , and the woodlands taking over cleared hillsides . |
| 6 | Jean-François Briant cuts sheets of steel into more or less identifiable natural forms , leaves with veins incised into openings , ears of corn , vegetable silhouettes which slide imperceptibly towards representations of objects as if at every fold and cut the metal allowed one to read into it fragments of history , of a previous life . |
| 7 | Despite boasts months ago , it has of course been unable to get volumes at 200MHz and probably wo n't until third quarter 1993 . |
| 8 | It has of course a ‘ baronial ’ hall ( in addition to , not instead of , a salon ) , complete with ‘ its rich roof , its gallery and screen ’ , not to mention its buttery-hatch which is , moreover , put to its proper use . |
| 9 | It has of course been said that it is possible to practice veterinary medicine and that many doctors do not communicate in any language but it has to be said that there is room for improvement . |
| 10 | 3.9 It has of course long been recognised that a person who suffers an identifiable psychiatric illness or psychological condition , often referred to as nervous shock , can be awarded damages without the necessity of showing direct impact or fear of immediate physical injuries for himself where another dies or suffers personal injury . |
| 11 | It starts of Stuart says to Geoff what team do you support , support and he says Nottingham Forest , ooh Nottingham Forest urgh and he takes the mickey out of him which okay , then he called him |
| 12 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 13 | It stinks of kid wee ! |
| 14 | It stinks of death ! ’ |
| 15 | And erm , one day we had friends round , and I went into the loo it stinks of smoke in here , it was really bizarre , and I , I went , and sort of just thought oh , and then I went in again , and I really did smell , and I thought , this is really odd , and so when I came out here I said , did anyone else smell smoke in the ba in the bathroom , and they said oh yeah , I could smell cigarette smoke , and then , it must have just been upstairs , and it wafted down , and in through ours , cos there was no one else really around . |
| 16 | When too energetic and predominant , it disposes of Credulity , and in mercantile men , leads to rash and inconsiderate speculation . |
| 17 | It smacks of jobs for the boys . |
| 18 | ‘ It smacks of ritual , would n't you say , Inspector ? |
| 19 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 20 | But the influence of one mind over another is very subtle , and of all influences religious influence is the most dangerous and the most powerful , and to counteract it courts of equity have gone very far . |
| 21 | Erm what it reveals of people psychologically , if anything . |
| 22 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't need that kind of restriction on my playing , and I 've done it loads of times in the past when recording , always having to think , ‘ Well , I ca n't play the F£ there ; I 'll have to go down and play it there . ’ |
| 24 | They opt for the pop end of things , complete with requisite effects pedals et al , and give it loads of balls . |
| 25 | Without it chains of command and responsibility patterns can not be established . |
| 26 | It varies of course as a function of time but not as a function of the spatial coordinates . |
| 27 | As we shall see , the reversal remains inadequate in that it conceives of homophobia in mainly psychosexual terms , and phobic ones at that . |
| 28 | On the other hand , a tax that exempts all or part of Β ( e.g. , because it consists of capital gains ) leads to an increase in inequality . |
| 29 | Both Kelsen and Aquinas acknowledge the role of determination and subsumption and both regard positive law as normative in the sense that it consists of precepts intimating how men ought to behave under particular circumstances . |
| 30 | It consists of Newton 's laws of motion plus his law of gravitation , the latter asserting that all pairs of bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that varies inversely as the square of their separation . |