Example sentences of "[prep] it of " in BNC.

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1 I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’
2 One pointer was the way that a growing percentage of the work-force was employed in the various activities of tourism , much of it of necessity on a shortterm or seasonal basis .
3 Multiple layers of screening , much of it of dubious scientific validity , may become a routine feature of working life unless restraints are imposed by law , as some states have begun to do .
4 Central to those ideals had been — at least since 1922 when Tawney published his Secondary Education for All — the extension of secondary schooling ( although , less precisely , not all of it of the grammar-school variety ) to the whole of the population .
5 The National Trust owns a considerable land area , much of it of importance for nature conservation .
6 It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan .
7 ‘ Was any of it of any use , ’ I asked , ‘ My course I mean . ’
8 It is the decisions , the policies , the judgement , motives , principles and ambitions , the skill and lack of it of the leading political actors which are decisive .
9 The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value .
10 or or lack of it of our clients with the stop go attitude .
11 Is there any danger that erm that it could happen more , er that you could have the same happening say in Flats as a similar thing happening say in erm more middle class areas , such as , yet erm there being more risk of of it of it of erm parents losing the child , say in some areas such as Flats , and yet in ,
12 Is there any danger that erm that it could happen more , er that you could have the same happening say in Flats as a similar thing happening say in erm more middle class areas , such as , yet erm there being more risk of of it of it of erm parents losing the child , say in some areas such as Flats , and yet in ,
13 By the end of 1908 Picasso owned at least five tribal objects and he went on to amass a large collection , much of it of very doubtful quality , although after the war when his own work was commanding large prices he occasionally exchanged a painting for a choice piece .
14 Since then , techniques such as seismic surveys , mechanised geochemical analysis , and isotopic research , have become available , and the theoretical framework of research in these geologically interesting areas has provided the potential for a great deal of re-interpretation , some of it of a fundamental nature , contributing to theoretical developments in geology .
15 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 ?
16 The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies .
17 Since there is a body of theory associated with these routes , some of it of considerable generality , identification of one of the routes implies that the transition is at least partially understood .
18 You know you want to know and I would 've thought that the higher the management the more they want to know the implications , the financial of it of any plan which you 're going into .
19 Most of it of it will be spent on rooms for parents of children being treated .
20 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 .
21 And you can bung , you can bung some bipolar adjectives underneath it of one sort or another er
22 The Organisers shall be liable for and shall indemnify the University against any claims against it of whatsoever nature including , but not limited to , claims in respect of death , injury , loss or damage where any such claim is caused by or arises by reason of the acts , omission or negligence of conference/course participants , the Organisers , their agents , servants or contractors .
23 But when at last Henry spoke it was mildly and quietly enough , though his eyes , deep-set and haggard under their drawn brows , looked curiously opaque , like grey glass with no light behind it of lantern or sky , and his hands , slightly gnarled like the hands of an older man , gripped hard at the arms of his chair .
24 Our true guide should be their perceived needs , their ‘ simple ’ appetitive desires devoid of the human implications that ‘ desire ’ carries with it of being self-conscious .
25 This figure brought an image with it of concentrated misery , hundreds of couples with small children , each family in one room , no proper amenities , the squalor of it all .
26 Moreover , if shipper A entrusted his goods to faithless agent B who shipped the goods , obtained an ‘ order ’ bill of lading and endorsed it to C who acquired it for value and in good faith , A could not replevy the entrusted goods from C. A bank then , could be assured that it would become an ‘ absolute purchaser of goods upon deposit with it of [ a ] draft and bill of lading … [ and would acquire ] absolute title to property , unless it took with notice of some infirmity . ’
27 Here the three criteria of ( *a ) explainability , ( *b ) comprehensiveness and ( *c ) positivity intertwine , as I indicate by means of the asterisks : The problem for the atheist is to provide a convincing account ( *a ) of religious experience , and with it of the entire ( *b ) religious history of mankind , which will do justice ( *c ) to its character and effects .
28 And the society have nothing to do with it of course you see .
29 In Braque 's l'Estaque landscapes of the previous year , the two-dimensional surface of the picture is retained partly by allowing the eye no way of escape beyond the mountains , buildings and trees , and here the same effect is achieved by the concrete treatment of the sky , which is as elaborately and solidly painted as the rest of the canvas , and which is fused with the landscape below by the extension into it of all the main compositional lines .
30 Wittek writes that among the basic causes of concern were Bayezid 's policy of using Christian soldiers against the Muslim gazi emirates in Anatolia and the " latinization " of the Ottoman court , the introduction into it of the practices of the Christian Balkan princes , this criticism being reflected in anecdotes relating that Bayezid 's Serbian wife Despina instructed him in the delights of wine .
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