Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can a positive image of lesbianism promote it ? |
| 2 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |
| 3 | As far as quality of play went it was probably the worst since I took over . ’ |
| 4 | Sue Baker of Hammicks found it dull . |
| 5 | On July 27 , 1989 , the Pakistani Minister of State for Finance , Ehsanul Haq Piracha , opening the third session of the Nepal-Pakistan Joint Economic Commission in Kathmandu , assured Nepal of support to help it overcome problems resulting from the trade blockade with India . |
| 6 | The rate of change makes it shudder on the branches of the trees where it stands to attention in its sterile , tightly packed commercial rows . |
| 7 | Now , centuries later , it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology . |
| 8 | If a gully is overflowing , try to unblock the grid using a length of stick to clean it out and rinse the gully clean |
| 9 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 10 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 11 | The most dazzling early feature of the Hanson affair was Smith New Court 's commitment to sell the company £250 million of ICI stock it did not own . |
| 12 | A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections . |
| 13 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 14 | Each time I asked , you fobbed me off , and now you 're suggesting that I should fix my belief in you without some kind of hook to hang it on . |
| 15 | They have n't been fighting all these years to get rid of communism to see it re-emerge again so you , the confusion continues , as it is in Russia , and then you insinuate the idea that , with the breakdown of social order and so on , you must have a strong man , you must have strong arms and that 's where your Hitlers and your Mussolinis and all these people come through in that little vacuum in between of disorder . |
| 16 | In the whole , as the degree of discrimination increased it was found that reaction time increased at a fairly constant rate . |
| 17 | Carnelian , spying through the eye-screen from wherever , had immediately begun withdrawing the hydra into the warp of Chaos to save it from extinction . |
| 18 | Everybody waited , but when the tearing bang of thunder came it was still loud enough to make Agnes jump . |
| 19 | At first , the lightning was silent , almost furtive ; then peals of thunder accompanied it . |
| 20 | The increasing impact of nuclear weapons upon military planning and the perceived importance of maintaining the integrity of a future theatre of operations made it necessary to standardise doctrine and training and , hence , provide a more integrated forum for addressing joint military requirements . |
| 21 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 22 | The diversity of crime accounts for the unconvincing nature of attempts to explain it by all-encompassing theories . |
| 23 | Sometimes disagreement , in spite of attempts to conceal it , will become so public as to prejudice a party 's hopes of electoral success . |
| 24 | Only when restricted by the sharp lines of formality does it seem at rest . |
| 25 | Implicit in these views was the fact that child abuse was considered to be only one of a range of problems that many families who come under the system 's microscope were experiencing , and that there was a need to respond to all the problems including child abuse , rather than of necessity giving it priority . |
| 26 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 27 | The Bishop of Lincoln thought it ridiculous that this powerful engine which was Michael Ramsey should be used in a tiny little parish , and said so , but blessed him when he found he wanted to go . |
| 28 | ‘ What sort of building had it been ? |
| 29 | In the writing of inspection reports it will be essential to express findings in a positive manner and in a language and style that address the concerns of the many non-specialists who make up the audience for the reports . |
| 30 | The Ministry of Defence denied it had been hit in a missile exercise . |