Example sentences of "it [vb -s] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It plays on our pride in our own free will . |
| 2 | It plays on your mind . |
| 3 | IT launches on Hallowe'en and encompasses Guy Fawkes night . |
| 4 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 5 | The moment it turns on its back the silvery belly is obvious . |
| 6 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 7 | Advantages : The grill is well positioned in one corner of the roof of the oven and browns food evenly as it turns on the turntable — excellent for cooking dishes such as lasagne and cauliflower cheese . |
| 8 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it is pernicious because it trades on the pernicious habit of labelling things or qualities ( hard/soft , consonant/vowel ) masculine or feminine ( a habit we must return to in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 10 | However , it trades on special terms , which this chapter has attempted to describe . |
| 11 | It refers on its face to Ord. 47 , r. 8 of the County Court Rules 1981 . |
| 12 | The cast-iron disc brakes work with four-pot calipers and it rides on 10ins rims at the front and 14ins at the rear . |
| 13 | It rides on the back of the general move to increased white meat consumption and a greater public awareness of animal welfare issues . |
| 14 | At the sides , it clips on the side . |
| 15 | I help him get up and he stamps his leg so it goes on proper . |
| 16 | Champagne ages perfectly in the producers ' cellars with a cheap crown cork , and only sprouts its traditional mushroom just before it goes on sale . |
| 17 | ‘ Even if a company comes out with a new cap , we can still make an adaptor before it goes on sale , says Mr Garnett . |
| 18 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 19 | So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think . |
| 20 | The revamped car will cost £40,268 when it goes on sale next January . |
| 21 | And in January it goes on sale at Ryman so homeowners can ensure their freezers or video recorders are not turned off by mistake . |
| 22 | ACTRESS Suzie Aitchison , daughter of June Whitfield , is to keep her part in the play An Evening With Gary Lineker , when it goes on tour in February with an otherwise entirely new cast . |
| 23 | Lawyers acting for the Queen are set to try to block Living With The Queen before it goes on sale in the US next month . |
| 24 | And then it 'll be head down — trying to work out how she 'll combine motherhood with her new job as news announcer for Meridian TV when it goes on air in January . |
| 25 | Valerie Petri , of Marlow , Bucks , said : ‘ The longer it goes on the worse it looks . ’ |
| 26 | None of it goes on salaries or administration because all of that is covered by sponsorship or by the interest on banked money . |
| 27 | It goes on controlled release in July and general availability is set for October , but there was no indication of price . |
| 28 | It goes on controlled release in July and general availability is set for October , but there was no indication of price . |
| 29 | You 've no sooner done one lot of washing up than you 've got another lot , and that 's how it goes on all day . |
| 30 | This is how the new Thorp two seat trainer will really look when it goes on sale in the UK in a few weeks ' time . |