Example sentences of "it of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath the surface of this gentle evening a complex and never-ending game , which had something in it of a duel , was being played , the players swimming in their milieu like fish , at different levels which they would occasionally switch , to make an attack or to retreat , to seize prey or to threaten . |
| 2 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 3 | On a chair in the scullery in his cardigan and his cap and his bad leg stuck out to one side , and his tins of paint on newspapers all around , and a big panel of wood propped up against the wall with a picture on it of a battleship in a stormy sea . |
| 4 | You can believe it of a cat . |
| 5 | And for the next three or four months , I was just getting it of a weekend . |
| 6 | That 's the fundamental as far as I see it of a pension fund . |
| 7 | There is no reason here , and I think no reason at all , to doubt that we take it of a cause and its effect that if or since the cause occurred then so did the effect . |
| 8 | It was actually thirty million was n't it of a claim for fifty million , of which there was also a secondary claim which was dropped . |
| 9 | Does it enhance or threaten our security or is it of no consequence to us ? |
| 10 | A second general problem is associated with the esteem with which a profession is held by society as a whole and , as far as the public sector is concerned , the attitude towards it of the government of the day . |
| 11 | If this is our approach , we force a work of art to last beyond its time , depriving it of the freedom to disintegrate , become a piece of junk , or just an old paint stain . |
| 12 | What business is it of the State if someone now wishes to be known as a woman , where previously she was considered a man ? |
| 13 | The precocity displayed by Ypres and Ghent in securing a candidate favourable to their industrial future was not to be imitated in the rest of France in the twelfth century ; still , other rulers , particularly those of Champagne , learned from it of the profit to be derived from allying with the increasingly powerful mercantile or industrial classes . |
| 14 | Sir , this is the last day as I understand it of the greenbelt enquiry . |
| 15 | Fucking hey must be lunatics it 's only a single lane carriageway hurar hurar and it 's a one way street , dead end fucking inverted brain leg it of the moon , the sun |
| 16 | How aware is it of the trading data that is collected , the way in which trading or order cards are filled in , or the pit trading practices that go on in front of its pit officials ? |
| 17 | Erm was there any w part of it of the strike organized in the sense of you giving moral support within the lodge to people who were obviously wavering ? |
| 18 | But her jaw had locked , as if she had been bitten by an animal that kills its prey by robbing it of the ability to eat or hunt , pant or lick , or even howl . |
| 19 | Paul uses it of the Spirit , without any indication of any outward sign . |
| 20 | As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible . |
| 21 | They used it of the sun , did n't they ? |
| 22 | The only true solution is somehow to alter the cat 's mental state and rid it of the monotony or stress that drives it to perform the ‘ pseudo-infantile ’ actions . |
| 23 | ‘ Are you going to tell me your story , or do I demand it of the world at large ! |
| 24 | Rather than reveal qualitative differences among the banks and draw the public 's attention to the bad-debt mess ( not to mention the responsibility for it of the finance ministry , which regulates banks ) , officials are doing everything they can to help banks sweep their problems under the carpet . |
| 25 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 26 | By then southern and eastern England had been extensively ravaged , and £137,000 paid in attempts to rid it of the enemy . |
| 27 | The external threat to it of the restoration of Roman Catholicism through foreign invasion was in the long run less serious than that posed by the Puritans from within . |
| 28 | it of the chap , he reckoned . |
| 29 | If we strip it of the insulation apparently provided by its appeal to the technology of literacy , we will expose the same ethnocentric claims and uncritical faith in the observer 's own ways of thinking . |
| 30 | The structuration of the business class as a whole has , to a considerable extent , been determined by the hegemony [ dominance ] within it of the establishment families . |