Example sentences of "of it in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though Abraham receives the promise of the land of Canaan in Genesis 12 and , by God 's terms , takes possession of it in the next chapter , his descendants do not enter it as a people until the book of Joshua , and the business of conquest is not finished till David is secure on the throne half-way through the second Book of Samuel . |
| 32 | In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula . |
| 33 | No wonder they place some of it in a jar to be kept as one of their holiest objects , a sign for future generations of the extent of God 's grace ( no doubt that manna will remain fresh for ever : yet more miracle ! ) . |
| 34 | Rather like pathological ‘ organisation men ’ , they seem so addicted to bureaucracy that they ca n't get enough of it in their day jobs . |
| 35 | On top of a worker 's take-home pay , we are charged 53% of it in social security payments — that is 15% employee 's contribution and 38% employer 's . |
| 36 | A few years ago this was only available in specialist nurseries , but I thought I recently caught a glimpse of it in Geoff Hamilton 's ornamental vegetable garden on the television , so I suppose it has come of age . |
| 37 | Although the attack by a young Jew on the German Legation Secretary in Paris , Ernst vom Rath , had taken place just the day before his usual address to the Party ‘ old guard ’ in Munich on 8 November 1935 , Hitler avoided all mention of it in his speech . |
| 38 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 39 | There had already been too much of it in our novels . |
| 40 | Nothing came of it in 1545 , though in June French troops arrived to give the Scots temporary assistance against the English . |
| 41 | According to the Soil Association — the largest body of organic farmers , of which Tustian is a member — although sales of organic produce have increased overall because there is more of it in the shops ( much of it imported ) , the recession also means that some of it lingers on the shelves for longer . |
| 42 | It is how , as a fire-brand of the Left , he was able to seize control of it in 1983 and then haul the lumbering edifice to the Right . |
| 43 | To take the former example , a phobia can occur as a result of a severe emotional shock , possibly experienced in childhood , the severity of which has caused the subject to bury his recollection of it in his subconscious mind — it being too traumatic to cope with at a conscious level . |
| 44 | More recently , the Forestry Commission has planted most of the 721 ha of plantable land it owns in the Western Isles ( almost all of it in Lewis ) , but it apparently does not plan to acquire further land for commercial forestry . |
| 45 | A few minutes later Endill caught another glimpse of it in the distance . |
| 46 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 47 | It was built of soft stone and has needed considerable renovation , some of it in cement , so that it is now almost pure , but delicate , rococo . |
| 48 | ‘ I suppose you could say that , but I had never thought of it in those terms . |
| 49 | There was a gallery here on the west side of the house and there is an oil painting of it in the house . |
| 50 | Charles Barry Junior , who chaired the lecture , spoke warmly of ‘ his great , his exceeding kindness to all those younger than himself ’ , having been the recipient of many instances of it in his own career . |
| 51 | The voyage out was a lengthy one via the Cape of Good Hope , and by his own admission Stirling spent most of it in his cabin gambling at cards . |
| 52 | I doubt whether it could have found its target but the very shape of it in my hands was reassuring . |
| 53 | I had become fond of Longfellow 's Saga of King Olaf : fond of it in a casual , shallow way for its story and its vigorous rhythms . |
| 54 | Combing a shaven head with a steel comb ( just to show you 'd got one — as if the faded shape of it in the back-pocket of your jeans was n't enough . ) |
| 55 | As regards the cyclical view , Momigliano says that the principal upholder of it in Greek historiography was Polybius ( c . |
| 56 | When the Council was wound up in 1982 , being replaced by the Secondary Examinations Council and School Curriculum Development Committee , there was so much work to be done on the curriculum and the examination of it in the years of compulsory school that consideration of the sixth-form curriculum lapsed into comparative inertia . |
| 57 | There was silence at the table for a moment , until the old lady spoke again ; ‘ You 've all forgotten the Boer War , ’ she said , ‘ although Hughie 's carrying a bit of it in his leg . |
| 58 | In the region as a whole coal consumption ( much of it in India ) accounts for more than half energy consumption . |
| 59 | Resource is therefore not the problem with synthetic fuels and the progress or lack of it in the industry is a function and a consequence of the price and availability of hydrocarbons . |
| 60 | Michael could easily have followed every word of it in his Mass Missal , but he did n't have one . |