Example sentences of "it of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a unity and perfection in it of an incommunicable kind . |
| 2 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 3 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 4 | Could he be sure they had emptied it of its last sheet ? |
| 5 | As Pacey said of Dudek — he could never say it of Layton ! — ‘ ( his strength ) lies in his serious attempt to give as purely as possible the experience which is pure and isolated in his own mind , ’ a view which is offended by the notion of ‘ popular culture ’ and the torch-carrying it requires . |
| 6 | No market for it of course , but what the Hell ? |
| 7 | Swapo remains the overwhelming favourite to win the United Nations-supervised elections next month , but claims that the organisation has detained and tortured many of its members in Angola and Zambia may deprive it of the two-thirds majority needed to form a government in an independent Namibia without holding another election . |
| 8 | Mr Tsvangirai 's detention came a day after his Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions denounced the government 's closure of the University of Zimbabwe and accused it of unleashing ‘ brutal state force ’ against opponents . |
| 9 | But ask state workers where they buy their new outfits , be it of traditional African cloth or stylish jeans , and the answer is likely to be Rock Santeiro . |
| 10 | The chief danger from the resurgence of the far right in Western Europe lies not in the likelihood of its achieving any real influence , but in the reactions to it of centre right parties . |
| 11 | ‘ If the shopkeeper wants to sell and I want buy , what business is it of anyone else ? ’ |
| 12 | What concern is it of theirs ? |
| 13 | This fear does not arise from a view of themselves as unskilled in formal police requirements , for no policemen or women would express that they suspect this of themselves , although some admit to suspecting it of others . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible . |
| 16 | You do it of course by deceiving them . |
| 17 | Speaking of the cinema in the Marie Lloyd piece , he accuses it of being ‘ rapid-breeding ’ and reducing its audience to a ‘ state of amorphous protoplasm ’ . |
| 18 | What business was it of theirs anyway ? |
| 19 | They concluded the company , which has bitterly contested the Fayeds ownership of the stores group , had ‘ taken the law into own hands ’ but cleared it of contempt . |
| 20 | But the loss of faith in the Communist Party is now so nationwide that workers and intellectuals can be making the same demand to deprive it of absolute power . |
| 21 | De La Rue 's sale of the Crosfield Electronics printing equipment business did not relieve it of other losses in advanced security equipment and in spite of the new cash surplus , the interim results are grisly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | De La Rue 's sale of the Crosfield Electronics printing equipment business did not relieve it of other losses in advanced security equipment and in spite of the new cash surplus , the interim results are grisly . |
| 24 | Delhi has blamed the unrest on Islamabad , accusing it of arming , training and inspiring the subversives , a charge Pakistan denies . |
| 25 | One could never accuse it of that . |
| 26 | One sign of the times : the film ‘ Bonfire of the Vanities ’ flopped after critics accused it of being kinder to yuppies than the original Tom Wolfe novel . |
| 27 | In early February , the chief of the general staff , General Mikhail Moiseev , sharply attacked the party 's military policies and accused it of failing to stem the tide of anti-military sentiment now sweeping the outlying republics ( 5,000 Lithuanians , for example , recently refused their call-up papers on the ground that the Geneva convention allows people to refuse to serve in the army of an occupying power ) . |
| 28 | He would go through the pain of divorce then if she really required it of him . |
| 29 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 30 | She had dabbed powder over her lipstick to rob it of its bright crimson lustre , and she had forgotten the little pink patches of rouge that gave her cheeks their rosy healthy glow . |