Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of it have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 2 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 3 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 4 | It was something else , more like a cannon , and before the echo of it had died away , there was a rumbling sound , growing to a roar . |
| 5 | The bulk of it has been removed , but the 50-year-old wooded floor remained . |
| 6 | The literature on accounting theory is relatively new ( the bulk of it has been generated over the last 50 years ) , and it has , until recently , been almost exclusively concerned with public limited companies ( Whittington , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | The publication of It had opened a new front and brought in new troops , and different ones , to the Hoggarts who had testified for Lawrence 's novel . |
| 8 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 9 | The point of the episode , so far as we were concerned , was that the truth of it has never been established . |
| 10 | Government officials also confirmed that there had been some forewarning of the rebel attack but that the magnitude of it had been unexpected . |
| 11 | It became a decisive and dangerous piece of initiative and the escaper got the credit of it having been that all the time . |
| 12 | ‘ It vanished quite slowly , beginning with the end of the tail , and ending with the grin , which remained some time after the rest of it had gone . ’ |
| 13 | The rest of it 's picked up by us anyway . |
| 14 | Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall . |
| 15 | The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers . |
| 16 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 17 | The poetry of China is even more extensive than that of Europe , and only the surface of it has been scratched by the West . |
| 18 | The top of it had been raised so that Bella , propped up against two pillows , her face grey against their whiteness , was almost in a sitting position . |
| 19 | In a three-quarter view of the head the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen as in a profile view , and the double outline of the foremost shoulder gives the impression that the top of it has been tipped up into the picture plane . |
| 20 | Mining coal can rarely compete on world markets and the use of it has such a damaging effect on our environment . ’ |
| 21 | Sheer shock at the vindictiveness of it had kept Paige rooted to the spot , and then her brain had started to work again . |
| 22 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 23 | Everything they had on the balcony got smeared with tar because the floor of it had been macadamed . |
| 24 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 25 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 26 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 27 | And we must avoid dismissing a particular policy wholesale simply because the pretence of it has sometimes been used to justify iniquity . |
| 28 | Now we come to resolution one , which is the Annual Report , the Accounts , and the Auditors , and although Geoffrey is not here , er , we 've done a video of him , which is now about to be shown , who will introduce er this , and I just like to say , that this has been sponsor the cost of it has been sponsored by the Shell International Petroleum Company , to whom we are very grateful if my head pops up and obscures some of the shout down , will you |
| 29 | Yeah but then dad said when he came in that , he 'd heard that the middle of it had gone . |
| 30 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |