Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think she could be right about it starting off as that , I do n't know . |
| 2 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 3 | The administration of his estate took 22s. 8d. of this , half of it going on fees , plus 2s. to the pardoner for letters of pardon and 5d. to the summoner . |
| 4 | Yes well er if it 's a joint account and the income 's i i if it 's a joint account and the income 's generated from that account , then er it will be er treated as one going to the taxpayer , er you know , half of it going to the taxpayer , half of it going to the non-taxpayer . |
| 5 | Yes well er if it 's a joint account and the income 's i i if it 's a joint account and the income 's generated from that account , then er it will be er treated as one going to the taxpayer , er you know , half of it going to the taxpayer , half of it going to the non-taxpayer . |
| 6 | There is a good deal of informal communication about courses in particular subjects , some of it passing along the external examiner grapevine , some of it through the ‘ invisible colleges ’ of research networks . |
| 7 | The resuscitation of Ali 's image has been a sporadic exercise for a long time now , some of it coming from friends who have experienced heartfelt pain over his illness . |
| 8 | The term modern algebra can then be used to describe that subsequent algebra , some of it arising from more detailed investigations within the classical theory , in which the symbols manipulated are no longer restricted to representing numerical quantities . |
| 9 | " Yes , but is some of it going to come this way ? " |
| 10 | He took a mouthful of ale , some of it dribbling down into his stubble . |
| 11 | Her stabbing nails had torn his left upper eyelid and blood from the wound dribbled down the side of his face , some of it running across the orb itself , turning one half of his world crimson . |
| 12 | On the shelf below him the old man was vomiting again , too weak even to roll over so that blood and mucus oozed down his chin and neck , some of it bubbling back into his throat . |
| 13 | By superimposing the same scale on the two axes of the matrix , the product can then be positioned , represented by a circle of which the area is proportional to the forecast market size , possibly with another inside it representing the estimated market share . |
| 14 | Ceauşescu was right : a few years later , the US Congress made freeing trade with the Soviet Union dependent on it permitting emigration , particularly of Soviet Jews . |
| 15 | Since Shaw and his team took over profits have recorded a sevenfold increase to £218 million — two-thirds of it emanating from the rich North American market . |
| 16 | However , the literature so far described is concerned almost entirely with social work at the micro level : individuals , families and small groups , much of it using techniques that are of little relevance to community work , for example behaviour modification . |
| 17 | The report contains comments from policymakers in borrowing countries , much of it criticizing Bank officials for ignoring local input while implementing policies decided at Bank headquarters . |
| 18 | This growth has accelerated in recent years , much of it taking place in the 1970s and it has been concentrated more in the higher levels of the education system . |
| 19 | much of it taking a shortcut to the city centre ( 'rat-running' ) . |
| 20 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 21 | One of the tsar-reformer 's great achievements was the foundation of the Russian navy , much of it consisting of wooden galleys propelled by the collective muscle-power of conscript or convict oarsmen . |
| 22 | The amplified muezzins of the town 's mosques spent much of it chanting at full volume . |
| 23 | It has the effect of increasing the surface area of a solution , thus increasing its speed of activity , and assisting in the total capability of a solution to suspend dirt much of it ending up trapped in the foam . |
| 24 | Over the ensuing twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased , while the considerable physical presence of an industrial proletariat , much of it working in large plants , became increasingly apparent . |
| 25 | In 1898 the Great Western Railway conveyed 5,978 tons of broccoli from Cornwall , much of it going north via Didcot , Birmingham , and Crewe . |
| 26 | Bacon , as an advocate of really long-term investment , said the concentration on tobacco was ‘ to the untimely prejudice of the main business ’ , though it is not easy to see what he thought the main business of a plantation ought to be — his essay was full of sensible advice , much of it showing signs of the influence of the Virginia experience , but he never explained why people should want to support this sort of enterprise , unless it was to be part of a programme for sending people abroad to reduce overpopulation . |
| 27 | They water it down , that 's how come there 's so much of it knocking around . ’ |
| 28 | Around £2,000 of the target figure has already been banked much of it following the fund raising activities of Albert 's colleagues . |
| 29 | Despite the ‘ ceasefire ’ , considerable bitterness remained in several quarters , much of it focusing on Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , Speaker of parliament , who described ministers as children who had lost their way . |
| 30 | Over the years , a vast folklore has built up , much of it linking the behaviour of plants and animals to the weather . |