Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit .
2 Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm
3 The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress .
4 I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back .
5 It is dependent on the stability of existing states of affairs since it assumes that future situations will be predictable replicas of those in the past .
6 The census of 1930 revealed the the state of affairs when it showed that more than twenty-two per cent of the population were ethnic and linguistic Germans .
7 ICI 's PLASTICS BUSINESS IS VERY clear about the sort of materials that it makes and sells .
8 You can actually get stronger as you go along on all the benefits so instead of selling one benefit , you could sell them a multitude of benefits because it means that if you 're with a customer two hours or two and a half hours , instead of spending ninety percent of the time , chatting along , you , you 'll not argue about , you follow me , I 've stopped selling benefits , but I used to sell them brillian brilliantly , in other words you get , gives you a bit of meat
9 So far as the former are concerned , the Act ( as does the Financial Services Act ) assumes that public issues of debentures will be undertaken by the same methods as issues of shares and it provides that a contract to take up debentures , like one to take up shares , may be enforced by an order for specific performance .
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