Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the lowlands , the traditional landscape has to some extent been preserved by the economic irrationality of farmers — although in the uplands it consists of their ability to hold on against all the odds rather than disavow the pursuit of maximum profits . |
| 2 | One may ask what account the firm took of the duties it owed of confidentiality and good faith , bearing in mind that , far from inquiring whether the BR board would object , it did not even say what it was doing . |
| 3 | MI5 maintains a large registry of files on individuals and organisations it considers of ‘ interest ’ . |
| 4 | It was also unduly limited in the kind of explanations it offered of the course of events , explanations which appealed overmuch to the actions and dispositions of individuals , stringing them together into a complex story of aims and intrigues . |
| 5 | Starting from the position that the dominant framework of feminist film criticism was ‘ too restrictive in the kinds of questions it asks of cinema ’ Gledhill gave a convincing defence of feminist realist practices and concluded with a plea for a kind of cultural analysis which could ‘ hold the extra-discursive and the discursive together as a complex and contradictory interrelation ’ . |
| 6 | The chart on page 70 provides an informal profile of each course and an indication of the qualities it asks of each student . |
| 7 | Vi walked across the echoing emptiness to gaze at the mantel shelf and the reminders it held of Gerry . |
| 8 | At the same time , the rhetoric of ‘ partnership ’ has never been stronger : used by policy-makers it seeks to soften the blow of centralization ; used by the professionals it smacks of a desperate clinging to more liberal values . |
| 9 | The profanity of his behaviour is captured in an incident when Casey — having just made love again to Annie — invites her to witness ‘ the power and majesty of the Church and the sacrifices it demands of us priests ’ . |
| 10 | And your set of tools used to consist of , what you , what you give the men it consists of dandy brush , body brush , water brush curry comb , and a picker . |
| 11 | It is disliked because it is physically an exhausting activity ; more than any of the other tasks it consists of actions which have to be repeated time and time again with little variation . |