Example sentences of "of it a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
| 6 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
| 7 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Suffolk police only discovered the court martial had taken place when officers read details of it a local newspaper . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
| 12 | So information becomes a valuable commodity , and the gathering of it a labour-intensive industry . |
| 13 | There is a double set of front pockets on each side — first a zipped pocket and in front of it an open patch pocket , and both are excellent , deep pockets . |
| 14 | Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign . |
| 15 | They produced a file which they said was his and took out of it an indistinct , green photograph of someone carrying a parcel . |