Example sentences of "some [prep] it be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Some of it is exquisite and some very rough .
2 As to specifically modern legislation , it would be equally unhelpful , although equally accurate , to express simply the initial and irresistible impression that there is a lot of it about , that some of it is unintelligible and that all of it is indigestible .
3 Some of it is genuine , some of it all a smoke-screen .
4 Some of it is wasted-through our faeces .
5 Some of it is hilarious .
6 So this is the speed and distance and time thing gets very confusing , because some of it is direct proportional , right so the faster you go , the more distance you could travel in a fixed in an hour say .
7 Almost everything is worth saying , some of it is fine and perceptive but the notion of less is more seems to apply more to his art than his writings .
8 The Notice is a formal document and some of it is complicated and may be difficult to understand .
9 Some of it is wonderful , a lot of it is awful .
10 In an article I wrote in 1970 I described the whirlpool of activity in the official curriculum : in syllabuses , in Institutes of Education , in curriculum centres , and I commented sadly that ‘ most of its impetus is at the centre , that some of it is circular , that its impetus decreases rapidly towards the perimeter and that the vast majority of primary schools lie in the stagnant water outside and are totally unaffected by its movement ’ .
11 Some of it is amusing , some of it pretentious drivel .
12 ‘ From here on some of it is guess-work .
13 Some of it is valuable in itself , and some becomes valuable when it is pieced together with other information .
14 Some of it is very light and some of it is heavy .
15 The wildlife is varied , beautiful — and some of it is likely to arrive on your plate .
16 Now this is where you go to the branch , and the branch management team stand up and bring you up to date with everything that 's happening in the company with product changes , legislation changes , yes , some of it 's boring , but it 's information you 've got to have .
17 Some of it 's useful , I mean
18 some of it 's nice .
19 Some of it 's similar man int it ?
20 Michael X/Abdul Malik , for example , was respected and liked by some of It 's editorial board , such as Bill Levy and Jim Haynes .
21 It 's all rather dated , and some of it 's very good and some of it 's so so , and some of it 's plain ordinary .
22 I mean that people like , you know , have said that the British secret intelligence have been have been doing now for a quite long time have been waging a sort of undercover war and er I 'm sure some of it 's true
23 Some of it was Israeli .
24 Some of it was judicial , when it heard the complaints of private persons .
25 Some of it was Australian , some , and then you had the English , you see , as well , but they was all allocated out to so much you a week , how many books you had , how many customers you 'd got .
26 Some of it was concerned with making policy in conjunction with the King , whom it advised on matters of state .
27 Some of it was happy , some less happy .
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