Example sentences of "of it that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |
| 2 | This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation . |
| 3 | It 's always been around in comic culture , but as cynical publishers try to cash in on the success of Howard Chaykin 's gross Black Kiss , there 's so much of it that the powers that be have noticed . |
| 4 | Mostly , they drank beer , so much of it that one old man stumbled out into the night entirely on automatic pilot and a middle-aged , tired-looking woman with a wooden leg lapsed into a coma . |
| 5 | ‘ Because although I do n't entirely share with you your view of the essential rottenness of all humanity as it exists today , I can see there are sections of it that are dangerous — ’ |
| 6 | There is also a short section on the area around Milan , or , at least , those pads of it that can be comfortably reached in a day 's road or rail travel . |
| 7 | Its classical central waiting-room had a touch of the first Euston about it , eighty years removed , and South Australian railways were so proud of it that they promptly published a booklet providing statistics of its dimensions , quantities of building materials used , and so on . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dust gets into everything : my white underwear became pink , and my ears were so full of it that my hearing was impaired . |
| 10 | At least to that branch of it that had rooted at Edendale in Southland , NZ , where it was now summer . |
| 11 | It is here that Scaevola appeals to the trust clause ; and it is on the basis of it that he allows their entitlement to stand . |
| 12 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 13 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 14 | I was so determined to make the most of it that , along with the tuition I was receiving , I was also practising between 12 and 14 hours a day ! ’ |
| 15 | ONLY SINEAD O'Connor could put together a seemingly uncontroversial , fun thing like a collection of cover versions of old standards and torch songs and put a speech at the end of it that questions the very foundations and ethics of the Catholic Church . |
| 16 | THE Government 's Homeswap Scheme is designed to help council and Housing Association tenants exchange properties but so few people seem aware of it that it hardly works . |
| 17 | Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching . |
| 18 | My hair is so thick and there 's so much of it that it 's just too annoying for me . |
| 19 | The fuselage , or that part of it that could be seen from above , appeared to be relatively intact . |
| 20 | For example , if we are trying to measure poverty , then our definition of poverty will actually produce the amount of it that we find . |
| 21 | So strange , she sometimes thought , to have all this engineering knowledge in three languages and still be so unable to apply a single word of it that she could scarcely change a plug without helpful diagrams . |
| 22 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 23 | On the other hand , I do not have that much to lose — speeding , in our culture at least , does not carry all that much stigma ( even in the section of it that I inhabit ) . |
| 24 | IBM Corp reckons that it is so vital to its future to gain possession of it that it is betting the company on making a success of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 25 | I would like certainly to see schemes starting where people can be put into worthwhile jobs , where people can start jobs knowing at the end of it that they are not going to be thrown onto the dole queue again . |
| 26 | According to Mrs Baldwin , whose account was more immediate , the words were : ‘ Sir , this is a very grave decision and I am deeply grieved ’ ; but the significant difference is that she adds : ‘ and he went on to tell him that according to some legal opinion the divorce ought not to have been granted , that there were certain aspects of it that in any ordinary case would not have gone through . ’ |
| 27 | Although she was pleased with what she had become , and saw some future in it , there was one aspect of it that she did not like . |
| 28 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 29 | And the first part of it that would be staff comments . |
| 30 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |