Example sentences of "of [noun sg] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( iii ) In the above definition of addition it seems that the + sign which is being defined ( that is , the one between the brackets ) is being defined in terms of itself ! |
| 2 | Of course it came and went , but he found the colleens were not only beautiful , but also good , and good at singing , though they were very shy on stage . |
| 3 | And of course it helps if you know where your target is going . |
| 4 | Oh at any rate , he they started rebidding and then of course it went and went and it fell and then this Mr gave up and whoever the other one was , Do n't remember who he was . |
| 5 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 6 | Of course it matters if people are deliberately robbed of the means of judgment by suppression of facts which , in any other situation , would be regarded as necessary to make sense of what had taken place . |
| 7 | Students do n't automatically proceed to this — it depends on the talent of the individual concerned , and of course it means that an extra year 's funds have to be found . |
| 8 | In this discussion , I will confine myself to discussing examples of sexism from the English language , though of course it exists and has been analysed in other languages too . |
| 9 | In the case of exercise it appears that the body becomes addicted to the endorphins it produces to ameliorate the pain and stress . |
| 10 | This village is noted for the amount of sun it receives and for its long pebble beach . |
| 11 | Thus nicotine makes the heart work harder , carbon monoxide reduces the supply of oxygen it needs while obstruction to the coronary arteries also occurs . |
| 12 | Even with the drama of Munich and the prospect of war it seemed as though Alec Reid had not found time for the outside world . |
| 13 | You have no idea what a surge of adrenalin it caused when our crowd burst into voice like that , then gave such a huge cheer when a great Craig Chalmers diagonal found touch ten metres out . |
| 14 | What time of day it rises and sets in the sky depends on the relative erm placing in the in the heavens of the earth and moon and sun . |
| 15 | The verbal pinpricks are shrewdly administered in a story indulgent to the conscious flippancy of the early 1920s ; from our own angle of vision it seems as though one socially artificial and isolated world is being used to comment on an earlier , equally artificial and isolated one . |
| 16 | At the international level of analysis it seems that the elderly in Britain fare much worse than their European colleagues . |
| 17 | Citalia prices itself on the unrivalled choice of accommodation it offers and this year the range is even further expanded with the addition of 60 new hotels . |
| 18 | Before the start of each year , the government is to assess the amount of expenditure it considers that each authority will require in order to provide a standard level of services . |
| 19 | Manpower told us that its staff are attracted to it and stay with it because of the level of such fringe benefits and the level of pay it offers and not because they are given contracts which confirm them as having dependent employee Status . |
| 20 | It will be recalled that the proceedings had been adjourned from June to August , and about that time of year it appears that the first appellant was offered employment in Italy . |
| 21 | In the case of muscle it seems that there is a master gene controlling the expression of all the main genes , known as myogenin and it is always switched on in mature muscle cells . |
| 22 | " When you inhale the poison of cholera it kills or impairs the functions of the ganglionic nerves which line the air-cells of the lungs … hence , the vital chemistry of the lungs is suspended ; neither caloric nor vital electricity is evolved hence , the coldness which is so typical of cholera . |
| 23 | In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks . |