Example sentences of "of it [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , if by some misfortune , he or she miscalculates and dares to put on even a tiny amount of excess fat , this is immediately dieted off within a week of it first appearing . |
| 2 | The situation may arise where the taxpayer is on the face of it chargeable to tax under Case V of Schedule D and also caught by Part XV of the Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 3 | ‘ The strain of it all brought on a heart attack . |
| 4 | The futility of it all fills the room . |
| 5 | But remember , the more people who know , the more chance there is of it all getting out . |
| 6 | The erotic side of it all developed , of course , rapidly and by itself , gathering more and more momentum , like a stone rolling down a hill . |
| 7 | He was endowed , alas , with a fragile nervous system , so that the strain of it all caused a build-up of neurosis that triggered one heart attack to end his playing career and another dozen years later that ended his life . |
| 8 | One of the ‘ street toughs ’ , actually a DEA man , later wondered what the point of it all had been . |
| 9 | The clarity of design , the hope it contains , and the naivety of it all proves a welcome contrast to the rest of the exhibits . |
| 10 | If they switch off and the closed-circuit figures drop , the present heady economics of it all begin to crumble . |
| 11 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 12 | Today , though , was not a suitable time to raise the subject of it all coming to an end . |
| 13 | Statistics show the younger a wife is when she marries , the more likely the chance of it all ending in the divorce courts . |
| 14 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 15 | Vologsky slammed his fist down upon the table as the injustice of it all descended upon him again . |
| 16 | To the south-east the morning sun was tinting the misted tops of the Macgillycuddy Reeks , and the beauty of it all reminded her again of her father 's remarks to her about Ireland and Corcaguiney on that evening when he broke the news of her betrothal . |
| 17 | Hence we form a naïve idea of it that does not correspond to reality at all ( 111 ) , based perhaps — I am now going beyond what Wittgenstein says — on some superficial resemblance between the grammar of ‘ I thought … ’ and ‘ I felt … ’ ( cf. 7 ) . |
| 18 | On the face of it Labour has a real chance of overturning the Tory majority of 2,661 . |
| 19 | The ending of the novel is too pat and contrived , but in the course of it Tabucchi has created an India which is constantly surprising and challenging to the European traveller/narrator/reader without ever allowing its mysticism or its exoticism to run away with it , for the sub-continent is also an ironically observed tourists ' India of hotels , buses , taxis , sights and restaurants . |
| 20 | Side by side hung her coarse morning working outfits , made out of casement cloth , which she had had to buy herself , much of it second-hand to save money , and two afternoon ones — a white cotton shirtwaister , black skirt , lacy cap with streamers and lacy white pinafore . |
| 21 | On the face of it this seems like a good idea . |
| 22 | On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum . |
| 23 | A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . |