Example sentences of "of it [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Because of it they simply could not plunder on ahead without thinking .
2 On the face of it they were an utter failure .
3 On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government 's consistent promise to maximise the opportunities for parental choice in the education system .
4 On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H .
5 Moments and impressions from this great desert of time remain with me but I have long forgotten in which part of it they occurred .
6 Most of it they have left as moorland on which they keep sheep .
7 Girls are not uninterested in science , they are bored by the limited version of it they meet in school .
8 Although few of the wares are found on the Wall itself , to the south of it they have a wide distribution pattern over the central and eastern parts of the northern garrisons ; , presumably the western sector was firmly under the control of the Wilderspool potters .
9 Some of it they did not believe ; some of it she did not report .
10 AIthough there are common concerns shared by the two theories , and indeed attempts to draw on both of them , there are also differences in terms of , for instance , the way in which they characterize society , or the part of it they are dealing with , the degree to which they focus on production and technology , whether their focus is on sectors or wider processes , and in relation to evidence ( both in terms of whether their balance is towards description or explanation and in terms of their interpretation of evidence ) .
11 else , and I think that people have to got sort of clarify what feminism is , and what sort of what aspects of it they want to take on .
12 The era of sealing wax and string was beginning to come to its end , although the end was far off ; in the Cavendish Laboratory under Rutherford in the 1930s the story was that research workers asking for string were made to say how many inches of it they needed .
13 The structure of universities in Germany , France , Britain and the USA was very different , but everywhere they were by the end of the century centres of scientific research , while at the beginning of it they had mostly been very marginal to it .
14 It may well be that had they known of it they would have been even more exigent .
15 how much of it they had contributed to directly ;
16 He had spread a tarpaulin over the duckboards , and on top of it they dumped blankets from the ambulance .
17 Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted .
18 Such an approach might begin by adopting Goffman 's ( 1976 ) distinction between systems-constraints and ritual-constraints , where the first labels the ingredients essential to sustaining any kind of systematic interweaving of actions by more than one party , and the second those ingredients that , while not essential to the maintaining of interaction , are nevertheless typical of it they are , if one likes , the social dimensions of interaction .
19 Er , the rest of it they take for the er to keep the breeders ' going keep .
20 Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten .
21 Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children .
22 yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void
23 When they came out of it they often grew crazily rapturous simply at returning to ‘ a world of colour , meadows and flowers and woods … where rain on the roofs sounds like a harmonic music ’
24 Yeah , they 'll come out of it they think it 's daylight again .
25 And imm and immediately they got hold of it they 've whopped the prices up too .
26 By the end of it we were just a shot oft Paul Azinger 's lead .
27 And for a really considered exposition of it we can turn to Charles Temple 's Native Races and their Rulers ( 1918 ) , a remarkable work which , though it bears the unmistakable stamp of a mind operating obsessively in isolation , pursuing ideas by their internal logic rather than by the rules of external evidence , can yet be assumed to possess a representative character .
28 Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space .
29 New York ] is the best exposition of it we have . ’
30 Let's make the best of it we can .
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