Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] [noun] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more difficult for a woman because by the time a woman 's got into her forties , her child rearing erm career is usually rather short and even if she wants to continue , it becomes much more hazardous for her and for her offspring , so er in , in the case of erm modern societies with erm monogamy bu but divorce as we have , you ca n't help thinking that to some extent the , the odds are , are loaded in the favour of men as it were in terms of their reproductive success . |
| 2 | Well it 's a drop in the bucket in one sense , but it 's on top of what we 're already doing with our Children 's Services , which are very good quality services now in the County . |
| 3 | and erm providing it 's nothing , sort of major and that forty nine pounds will cover but if they find anything major they 're it 's on top of their forty nine pounds ! |
| 4 | It 's on top of your really clean black thing which I washed . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's on account of my background , ’ she said , and shivered . |
| 6 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 7 | This is unspoilt Greece at its best , and it 's within range of our dinghies sailing from Nidri . |
| 8 | Apparently it 's in appreciation of my success at the club — and commitment to the job ! |
| 9 | It 's in front of you the list . |
| 10 | You know our eyes are very important to us , what he says , get a bit frustrated with you , you 've not understood what they 're tr trying to explain , they say come on , open your eyes will you , it 's there , it 's in front of you . |
| 11 | It 's from fear of what will happen , because you 're doing something you 're comfortable with you 're proud of erm a and at the same time you do n't know how erm these authorities are going to react . |
| 12 | It is on account of his age I restrain myself , ma'am . |
| 13 | Thus what we gain is Something , yet it is by virtue of Nothing that this can be put to use . |
| 14 | Japan is poor in natural resources , yet as the second largest industrial country , it is in need of them . |
| 15 | A local authority that spends less on special educational needs does so either because it has less incidence of such needs or because it is in dereliction of its duties to pupils with those needs . |
| 16 | I shall call it an experiential explanation , because it is in terms of our experiences . |
| 17 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 18 | Every minute she was in the house where she had spent most of her life , crowded as it was with memories of her parents and her grandfather , made it more difficult to bear up . |
| 19 | There were conflabs in the typing pool and that bossy Marianne going importantly round to areas she normally never trespassed in and June — had felt it was on account of her . |
| 20 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 21 | ‘ I think Gran might have demanded the money because she thought I had a right to it , but it was for love of me and despair at our poverty — her kind of rough justice . ’ |
| 22 | This makes it the more interesting that mammoth ivory , well adapted though it was by reason of its strength for tools and weapons , was reserved to a substantial extent for personal ornaments and sculptural representations . |
| 23 | It was in recognition of her imaginative purchasing of paintings to enliven the walls of Arlington House , north-west London , a hostel for 400 homeless men . |
| 24 | Even though I could now visualize a cell or a room , and a man chained to a wall , trying to occupy his mind and keep his fears at bay , when I thought of John it was like thinking of him lost in an abstract painting which I did n't understand . |