Example sentences of "[verb] of it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , unless it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances , a firm must not , in any written communication or agreement , seek to exclude or restrict : ( 1 ) Any other duty to act with skill , care and diligence which is owed to a private customer in connection with the provision to him of investment services in the course of regulated business ; or ( 2 ) Any liability owed to a private customer in connection with regulated business for failure to exercise the degree of skill , care and diligence that may reasonably be expected of it in the provision of investment services in the course of that business . |
| 2 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 3 | He genuinely had little concern with making money for its own sake , but he could not fail to be infected by Marjorie 's martyred attitude to their shortage of cash , and he resented being reminded of it by Kegan 's sleekness . |
| 4 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 5 | And but that he had many things to occupy his mind , and she no less , I think something would have come of it before now . ’ |
| 6 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 7 | Some of those pigments presumably behaved in the way that melanin behaves in human skin , absorbing solar energy , disposing of it through the body as heat . |
| 8 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 9 | The circumstances will dictate how much you can make of it from the standpoint of good video . |
| 10 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 11 | Robyn herself would disapprove of it on ideological grounds , and it might be interpreted by other students as creeping . |
| 12 | The use of the split infinitive is now generally acceptable , though some more traditional grammarians would probably still disapprove of it as incorrect English . |
| 13 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 14 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 15 | I would n't even think of it for a minute if it was n't best for everybody . |
| 16 | ‘ You can think of it with a fire going and a light burning , , Jean said . |
| 17 | Right , well what do you think of it at the front ? |
| 18 | A further defence came from Tony Swift , chairman of the International Federation rules committee : ‘ We do n't think of it as a woman up there — as far as we are concerned it is a person , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Over the next two months , we will be subjected to a barrage of argument , statistics and plain propaganda from Woolworths ( yes , call it Kingfisher if you want , but most people will still think of it as Woolies ) and from Dixons . |
| 20 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 21 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 22 | ‘ I looked up and saw this person — I did n't think of it as me . |
| 23 | By all means enjoy an autumn romance but do not think of it as anything more than that . ’ |
| 24 | Instead of thinking of society as made up of simple parts , we must think of it as a collection of wholes which together make up one ‘ complex whole ’ . |
| 25 | Do n't think of it as a cage ; it 's your home , so learn to love it . " |
| 26 | Yeah if you can write erm do n't think of it as as homework you might like to writ it in book or something . |
| 27 | So we put another wire on , do n't think of it as resistance , think of it as a conductor , it 's going to let some more current through . |
| 28 | and say well think of the conductance , do n't think of it as resisting and stopping the water , how much can it get along and get through ? |
| 29 | You can think of it as sharing it out between people , share that ten pound out between ten of you . |
| 30 | ‘ Besides , it comes with a condition attached , so do n't think of it as a gift . ’ |