Example sentences of "of [noun sg] it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they had pretended they were childhood sweethearts , played at falling in love , but of course it had all ended in laughter . |
| 2 | It had been my cherished wish , if our circumstances had allowed , to create a ‘ Balancing Fund ’ so that in future years the Institute would not be wholly dependent on forecasting expenditure on the basis of income it had yet to receive . |
| 3 | In the summer , with the sun slanting in through the window , with the deep tan wallpaper , and the overall colour scheme of tan and creams , it looked lovely , but in the depths of winter it looked vaguely soiled , and depressingly dull . |
| 4 | Unquestionably the degree of proportionality it produces overall contrasts strikingly with the disproportionality of British general election results . |
| 5 | But while the UK has become suddenly and significantly a net exporter of oil it has gradually lost its self-sufficiency in gas . |
| 6 | Having got the kind of structure it had always insisted upon , it seems clear that Britain had no qualms about such a statement being used to promote some version of supranationalism . |
| 7 | The banks questioned in the survey argued that although the level of headhunting activity had indeed risen with the Big Bang , from their point of view it had then fallen off ; whilst many non-financial users of search , such as BICC , suggested that claims of noticeable changes in recruiting as a result of either event were wildly exaggerated . |
| 8 | A degree of comfort it had certainly provided . |