Example sentences of "of it [prep] a [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | More frequently , however , he spoke of it as a means to modernize the Church so that unity might become possible . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught . |
| 8 | But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary . |
| 9 | Juries may therefore be reluctant to impose the stigma of it on an offender save in the most extreme cases . |
| 10 | ‘ You can think of it with a fire going and a light burning , , Jean said . |
| 11 | I held out my hand , and the terrible , soft-speaking , eyeless man took hold of it like a dog biting a bone . |