Example sentences of "it [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you 're going to fail you 'll do it full-face on , not flinching , not whining . |
| 2 | He flicks through his computer in search of the file marked : ‘ Over-confidence ; The Perils Of , ’ and he produces a stream of anodyne phrases which might have been scripted at Anfield or Old Trafford : ‘ Take nothing for granted … great respect for the opposition … must get it right on the day . ’ |
| 3 | We have decades of experience on mortality rates and so on ; we should get it right on the basis of sheer statistics . ’ |
| 4 | They were wrong , so why should we believe that they have got it right on this occasion ? |
| 5 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that during the past 25 years successive Governments have never quite got it right on training , which is so essential to our future prosperity ? |
| 6 | ‘ Like us , they have also experienced a bad start and I 'm sure they will want to get it right on Sunday . |
| 7 | Veteran defender Alistair Fitzsimmons foiled two goalbound efforts but in the 28th minute conceded a penalty stroke which Cooke converted and then Davy Wilson made it 4–0 on the stroke of half-time . |
| 8 | The Steelers made it 14–3 on Lipps ' 11 yard scoring grab early in the second period . |
| 9 | In this process the solvent is captured at the point of use , making it acceptable on environmental and operator safety grounds . |
| 10 | Software manufacturers should at least make it clear on the pack that the programme wo n't work if a disk compression program such as a stacker is in use , and/or you do n't have ‘ X ’ megabytes of memory . |
| 11 | A Just make it clear on your Car Hire Application form . |
| 12 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 13 | The Lord Chancellor has made it clear on the front of that document that they have been issued before being finalised so as to facilitate discussion . |
| 14 | The Government have made it clear on a number of occasions and I repeat it now : there will be no amnesty for non-payers . |
| 15 | I made it clear on 27 November that we intend to bring forward proposals for Sunday trading once the legal position is clear . |
| 16 | The results reflected concern in West Germany about the pace and particularly the financial consequences of the German unification process , although Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl made it clear on May 14 that he intended to stick to the timetable of holding all-German elections in December 1990 or January 1991 despite the CDU 's " bitter " defeat in Lower Saxony . |
| 17 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |
| 18 | Dos Santos welcomed the move , but made it clear on Dec. 27 that before he met Savimbi UNITA would have to accept the September election results , withdraw from all areas occupied following the elections , and enable government administration to be extended throughout Angola . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) An instrument shall not be a deed unless — ( a ) it makes it clear on its face that it is intended to be a deed by the person making it , or , as the case may be , by the parties to it ( whether by describing itself as a deed or expressing itself to be executed or signed as a deed or otherwise ) ; and ( b ) it is validly executed as a deed by that person or , as the case may be , one or more of those parties . |
| 20 | He says we 've actually made it clear on our planning application that we 're prepared to look very carefully at the mix and size and type of housing to ensure it fits what local people need in the area . |
| 21 | Dad 's first name was George , and he had already made it clear on several occasions that when Granpa retired he had no intention of taking over from him as he did n't want to leave his mates on the docks . |
| 22 | Concessionary travel for railwaymen is not discretionary nor is it dependent on there being surplus seats on any train . |
| 23 | There are in fact several different categories of territorial cleavage to which the term has been applied , but the major development by Hechter on Pizzorno 's line is the increased emphasis on the penetration of the periphery by the centre ; the periphery is seen as dependent in the sense that industrialisation takes place in a manner which leaves it dependent on the centre for investment and management control . |
| 24 | I mean , just leaving it to the baby , or making it dependent on the baby 's survival . |
| 25 | I have chopped up the Info in such a way as to make it Faxable on 2 sheets So I could do that too , at a pinch . |
| 26 | but Wimbledon were always going to win it … and Robbie Earle rounded things off with number 4 which made it 5-1 on aggregate |
| 27 | The President gave his blessing on 20 November , and the Council of Ministers made it official on 27 January , 1982 . |
| 28 | ‘ They 'll make it official on Monday . ’ |
| 29 | When the Mary arrived off Mogadishu , the master refused to enter the port because he considered it unsafe on account of the fighting that was going on there . |
| 30 | When the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) first screened the videotape of the Dec. 14 demonstration on state television in June [ see p. 37544 ] , Mladenov denounced it as a " slanderous montage " , but experts ruled it authentic on July 4 , whereupon Mladenov in a nationwide broadcast declared that his remark had been taken out of context , and that he should be judged by deeds not words . |