Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as something of a shock in the late 1970s , when developments in the human rights situation around the world and the increase in groups worldwide and the increase in groups worldwide led to fewer prisoner cases being available for UK groups . |
| 2 | After running a substantial international fibres business , it came as something of a cultural shock to find himself sitting in ICI 's headquarters with only a secretary to command . |
| 3 | So it came as something of a shock to Labour 's Brian Wilson when he found that a Commons motion he had tabled had been … well , subbed a bit by the authorities of the House . |
| 4 | It came as something of a shock to the Poles to realise that the Kaszubians saw no difference between selling their land to a Pole or selling it to a German . |
| 5 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 6 | In view of these attitudes , it came as something of a surprise when the Chancellor 's 1989 Autumn statement included an extra £250 million over two years to tackle the problem of homelessness . |
| 7 | It happened that none of them were , last week . |
| 8 | It shows that none of us is perfect , not even the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 9 | Yet it transpires that none of the money that is so essential for restoring endangered architectural treasures is ever paid to the great figures of modern art . |
| 10 | It appears that none of the Leapors owned a freehold . |
| 11 | Yet it seems that none of them was completely surprised . |
| 12 | Well , it seems that none of the arguments that have been used so far would come close to defending the type of system that we 've got . |
| 13 | There were seven people in our dormitory and I think five were awake ; we all heard the mysterious sounds without any doubt but it appeared that none of the inhabitants of the other dormitories heard anything at all . |
| 14 | Nor is it to say that none of the Webbs ' criticisms of Owen is valid . |
| 15 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 16 | We have become so used to thinking of Günter Wand as a conductor who specialises exclusively in the late 18th and 19th Century symphonic repertoire that it comes as something of a shock to find him performing a wide variety of works of more contemporary lineage . |
| 17 | When set within an historical perspective , it comes as something of a shock to learn that primary education as we perceive it ( with children and teachers housed in buildings built or adapted to ‘ meet the needs of the children themselves , ) is a recent phenomenon . |
| 18 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |