Example sentences of "of it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It described where the prisoners were held : ; the people of Tazmamert appear to be hardly aware of it or too frightened to talk about it . |
| 2 | In London , it was a rather different story , since the literature available needed discrimination , much of it being historical and iconographic , establishing data of little interest to the art student . |
| 3 | As to genius , ‘ Reynolds ’ opinion was that Genius may be taught & that all Pretense to Inspiration is a Lie & a Deceit , to say the least of it . |
| 4 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |
| 5 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 6 | The Man with a Sheep is said to be humanitarian ; that is far from one 's experience in front of it , and the assertion is not much supported by the iconographical evidence . |
| 7 | If the term ‘ Abstract Expressionist ’ means anything verifiable , it means painterliness : loose , rapid handling , or the look of it ; masses that blot and fuse instead of shapes that stay distinct ; large , conspicuous rhythms ; broken color ; uneven saturations or densities of paint ; exhibited brush , knife , finger or rag marks — in short a constellation of physical features like those defined by Wölflinn when he extracted his notion of the Malerische from Baroque art . |
| 8 | It is not Naipaul 's ; it does not constitute the author 's testament or confession on the subject of race relations and the rest of it . |
| 9 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 10 | The servants , who did much of the living which is commemorated here , and his parents , who did so little of it , are placed well within reach of an impartial sympathy in a work which nowhere feels vindictive , and which declines to settle for any final understanding of what went on . |
| 11 | Esther had quite as hard a time of it as Annie , one might feel , but even so , Moore 's spirited novel can be thought to settle for an anodyne poverty . |
| 12 | The Wilde apocrypha contains a joke which says it all — or a fair part of it . |
| 13 | These are portraits of the artist who grows up in an age of revolutionary socialism and who has to make what he can of it . |
| 14 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 15 | Lyricism can indeed be very like this description of it . |
| 16 | His own vicissitudes in love are a feature of the story he tells , as is his attempt to understand his disconcerting brother and to produce reflections on the meaning of it all . |
| 17 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 18 | The Zuckerman books are a medley of differences and affinities between what we are able to infer about Roth 's life and what he has made of it in art . |
| 19 | In the fictional conversation about adverse publicity a good mother meets a son anxious to reassure her , while alive to the comedy of it . |
| 20 | This Glasgow Hamlet is the latest in a long line of impersonations , and his soliloquies are the novel he inhabits , or most of it . |
| 21 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 22 | By the end of it you 're no all that sure whether teachers get long holidays or no ( they do , though most of them have to work hard for it ) , and whether parents should go and fuck themselves . |
| 23 | Two scholarships are available for American students at RADA , which provide the total fee , or , according to parental income , part of it . |
| 24 | It 's pretty lightweight , most of it and what is n't lightweight is salacious , so I would n't think you 'd find much to stimulate you there , but you could try . |
| 25 | It 's what comes of making such a mystery of it . |
| 26 | It was free to select the news it thought fit to print , to make much of it , or little , and free to make room for more girls wearing less and less underwear . |
| 27 | I 'm glad of it — for the confidence it will give me at home . |
| 28 | Well , I haven t had enough experience of it yet . |
| 29 | Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership . |
| 30 | The clergy were and still are in a special position , holding power over the laity because of it . |