Example sentences of "[noun pl] of it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have seen huge clumps of it on roadside bands in Greece , the deeply divided , dark green leaves bristling with formidable spines , a most fearsome spectacle , and easily recreated in a warm , sunny , well-drained spot in the garden . |
| 2 | Suddenly , the grass around the den began to rustle and clumps of it fell down the bank . |
| 3 | In addition to these issues which arise from the nature of professional occupations and the control of professional courses , there are two other issues which lie at the heart of professional education , so much so indeed that they can be taken as defining characteristics of it . |
| 4 | This last observation may mean that additions , repairs and restorations could be recognised even if they had been carried out with lacquer from the lacquer tree instead of imitations of it . |
| 5 | but less superficially it is a fact that Christian truth is not to be equated with our formulations of it and we must always satisfy ourselves with pointers to it . |
| 6 | ‘ You were only on the outskirts of it , ’ said Caspar . |
| 7 | ‘ And when I kissed you it rushed through me , waves of it ; I could barely restrain myself , thought I was going to make love to you on the spot . |
| 8 | Distant streetlamps blurred by rain cast eerie blue light into the lobby ; great criss-cross squares of it . |
| 9 | postmodernism 's self-reflexiveness can be defended , even on the grounds of responsibility upon which dismissals of it are usually based . |
| 10 | Apparently they thought it was the cleaning heads by the , the heads of it , I do n't know , I know nothing about it . |
| 11 | Gandhi claims to be simply a seeker after Truth , ceaselessly searching for it , occasionally having glimpses of it , yet not finding it . |
| 12 | But suspected that they enjoyed their glimpses of it , on occasions such as this . |
| 13 | It may just mean that you might see Er I mean is elevated above the A Nineteen , and indeed you can catch glimpses of it |
| 14 | There have been some most tempting glimpses of it when you have become excited about a design or angry with yourself for a failure to meet your own high standards . ’ |
| 15 | Rory had only seen fleeting glimpses of it , but enough to know it was there . |
| 16 | Imitators who marketed potassium permanganate as ‘ Condy 's Crystals ’ ( and solutions of it as his fluid ) were the subject of litigation which reached its height in Australia at the turn of the century . |
| 17 | And I do n't like that aspect of politics , the divisiveness of it all , the personal sort of er attentions of it all . |
| 18 | A substantial part of the trail is already in use ; two units of it are incorporated in two excursions ( to Rutli and to Bauen ) described in this section . |
| 19 | A canal , as the Duke of Bridgewater explained , had " to have coals at the heels of it " . |
| 20 | and Spencer Gore , were the chief beneficiaries of it . |
| 21 | His poetry — there are now 50 books of it , no less — comes in all shapes and sizes , all colours and sounds , except the muted . |
| 22 | Near the top the trees die out and the landscape which replaces them is a shock , for here the rock enters into full possession , turbulent acres of it , broken and jagged . |
| 23 | You can also take the train : a mini-train , billed as Europe 's highest small railway ( it could just as well be smallest high railway ) , which coils for no less than ten very lofty , lonely kilometres around the spurs of rock to a distant terminus from which you can walk to the Lac d'Artouste , nearly 200 acres of it , in a stonily unforgiving ring of granite mountains . |
| 24 | There are forty-eight acres of it . |
| 25 | The only condition is that fifty acres of it remain as woodland . |
| 26 | Thinking they frequented the Creek I would not allow them to be shot but they bent down my grain and destroyed acres of it , and simultaneously disappeared some months after harvest — Where did they come from where do they go ? pray let me hear from you and believe me |
| 27 | But we must not build too much , at this early stage in Gassendi 's thought , on these positive aspects of it . |
| 28 | The work was never made quite as planned , but several aspects of it occur in the ballet he made in Israel many years later , and some in works for Sadler 's Wells in the fifties . |
| 29 | But the intention of practical English must be to ensure an understanding of what is read , not necessarily an appreciation of those aspects of it that would appeal especially to literary critics or literary historians . |
| 30 | However , a more thorough evaluation of some aspects of it is provided by Walker ( 1989 ) . |