Example sentences of "of it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went there with a new cloth on the drum , as near as could be ; and when we come away there was n't a piece of it no bigger than your hand . |
| 2 | For a moment he knelt beside the boy , looking down at him ; again , as in the dream — the reality of it no clearer than the vision he had had . |
| 3 | In his textbook Thornbury ( 1954 ) enunciated nine fundamental concepts of geomorphology of which one was ‘ Little of the earth 's topography is older than Tertiary and most of it no older than Pleistocene . ’ |
| 4 | This will condense and form a fine dust much of which will return to the surface , most of it a long way from the impact . |
| 5 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 6 | It was surrounded by a splendid park , and its superb gardens ornamented with fountains and a magnificent cascade made of it a cool and airy summer residence . |
| 7 | He let in the estate agent and took him over the house , into the drawing room and the dining room , upstairs to the Pincushion Room , the Centaur Room , the Room of Astonishment , the Deathbed Room , the Room Without a Name , and then back down the back stairs to that jumble of kitchens and scullery and washhouse and coal-store , most of it a nineteenth century addition . |
| 8 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
| 9 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
| 10 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 11 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
| 12 | Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper . |
| 13 | Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use . |
| 14 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
| 15 | So information becomes a valuable commodity , and the gathering of it a labour-intensive industry . |
| 16 | And just have a little of it every half hour ? |
| 17 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
| 18 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 20 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 21 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 22 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 23 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 24 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 25 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
| 26 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
| 27 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 28 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 29 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
| 30 | On the face of it the latter view certainly seems the more rational , since the two states in question appear to contain elements that are inherently irreconcilable . |