Example sentences of "not [det] of it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said there was not much of it to remember , really . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's not much of it left . |
| 3 | There 's not much of it left . |
| 4 | I mean there 's not much of it to tuck in . |
| 5 | There was a pause and then much laughter , not all of it forced . |
| 6 | There had been a lot of talk among the customers about Harry Pascoe 's venture to the Americas , and not all of it had been complimentary . |
| 7 | The learning mode was a judicious mixture of lecture , class lessons , practical sessions and ( on Friday afternoons ) individual/ small group work , using work-cards or booklets ; these latter varied , being strictly or loosely structured according to need , allowing for different kinds of work , not all of it written . |
| 8 | It can be seen from the northern parts of Australia and South Africa , but not all of it rises from Sydney or Cape Town , and from Wellington in New Zealand it is never visible at all . |
| 9 | The notes , if not all the articulation , may be reconstructed from the Oeuvres complètes ( illus.4 ) by taking the two violin parts and bass , and ignoring the rest ignoring , that is , the newly composed viola line , the first bassoon ( much but not all of it derived from the viola ) , both the oboe parts and those passages where flutes double the violins at the octave . |
| 10 | I know that not all of it has gone into cricket , but as we know that the Prime Minister , the chairman of the foundation and at least two of the trustees are cricket fanatics , we can expect that perhaps £5 million has been granted to cricket . |
| 11 | All of these things can be found here , in an album which could well be a Bunnymen work , were it not for the absence of much of the pomposity to which they were inclined ( though , unrepentant fans will note , not all of it judging by track titles like ‘ The White Hotel ’ and ‘ Proud to Fall ’ ) . |
| 12 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |