Example sentences of "of an [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other advantages are that employees working direct for a company are often better motivated than those of an intermediary and it is easier to control a subsidiary because it is under the parent company 's direct control . |
| 2 | There often comes a point in the growth of an enterprise when it is clear that some of the activities are profitable and others are a burden . |
| 3 | Fifteen years later the town of Carlisle is as much of an enigma as it was then , despite the expenditure of some very large sums of money and several large excavations . |
| 4 | there will be quarter of an hour so it 's |
| 5 | Witton to Electric House quarter of an hour , Electric House to Rushmere Heath , quarter of an hour and it did the reverse direction . |
| 6 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 7 | If it could boot from a network or a CD , disk space would be less of an issue but it ca n't . |
| 8 | The statement was probably a bit of an exaggeration but it demonstrated just how strongly Peter Fonda felt about the Nicholson play . |
| 9 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 10 | This is more of an illusion than it is for Britain because there is even less semblance in the US of centralised , national government . |
| 11 | Certainly the use of light pens can ease the editing and manipulation of an image once it 's on the screen but they can not be used to copy a picture from a sheet of paper . |
| 12 | It , it is a form of an obsession and it is an excitement and there 's a warmth and there 's a funniness about it and it just wonderful , better being in love than not being in love surely . |
| 13 | Geoff Wragg , the trainer of those colts , said : ‘ It 's the end of an era and it 's nice to go out on a high . |
| 14 | Even so , country looks a bit of an impostor when it poses as an agent of radical change in pop music . |
| 15 | And they could find themselves with , you know , somebody asking for a thousand of an item and it 's well worth their while therefore , spending a bit of money getting it there . |
| 16 | An assertion is the basis of an argument when it is combined with a justification : assertion : " Dickens showed an incorrect view of the London working classes . " |
| 17 | The CNAA 's procedures , its concern with the total academic environment in which its courses were offered , had led it — at a time when its relationships with the institutions were under intensive discussion — to a position in which it could directly influence the management and operation of an institution where it perceived weaknesses , as well as the institution 's own relationships with governors and the local authority . |
| 18 | Although a scheme may appear local in nature and the amount of an estuary that it encloses or otherwise alters , we must take the national significance into account for breeding birds . |