Example sentences of "of it [prep] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I poured 70 per cent of it into a glass representing the wages paid to those of us who work in the business , 20 per cent into a glass representing what was ploughed back by way of reinvestment in plant and machinery , 5 per cent into a glass representing dividends and 5 per cent into a glass representing tax . |
| 2 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 5 | More frequently , however , he spoke of it as a means to modernize the Church so that unity might become possible . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , you allow rationality to children , then you can not use their lack of it as a criterion to distinguish them from adults . |
| 7 | No doubt M. Chaillot agreed to my demand only because he imagined I would regard his acceptance of it as an incentive to call again . |
| 8 | So , ‘ the distinctive feature of Christian piety lies in the fact that whatever alienation from God there is in the phases of our experience , we are conscious of it as an action originating in ourselves , which we call Sin ; but whatever fellowship with God there is , we are conscious of it as resting upon a communication from the Redeemer , which we call Grace ’ . |
| 9 | The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught . |
| 10 | But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary . |
| 11 | Juries may therefore be reluctant to impose the stigma of it on an offender save in the most extreme cases . |
| 12 | ‘ You can think of it with a fire going and a light burning , , Jean said . |
| 13 | I have left this monument to the last because it gives the fullest and most splendid expression to the first phase of fifth-century classical art ; and a comparison of it with the Parthenon makes clear both the essential unity of that style and the difference between its phases . |
| 14 | Think of it with the garden cleared and new fruit-trees put in — ‘ They would never take up here . |
| 15 | The discovery of it outside the groups identified as apparent risks can only give cause for concern . |
| 16 | There is some provision made within the law for copying a work of part of it without the need to obtain permission . |
| 17 | I held out my hand , and the terrible , soft-speaking , eyeless man took hold of it like a dog biting a bone . |
| 18 | When deleting a record , not only has the data record to be deleted but all mentions of it in the indexes have also to be deleted . |
| 19 | Too much of it in the body causes anaemia , heart disease , bone disorders and fatal dementia . |