Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may lead those who would otherwise oppose the practice to defend it on cultural grounds . |
| 2 | The specifically indeterminate forms that inhabit the underside of misericords — birds with human heads , dragons with foliage tails — give way to bats , cats , men — on horseback or performing somersaults under the ledge to balance it on various parts of their anatomy . |
| 3 | If an illness has multiple causes it makes sense to attack it on several fronts at once . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 5 | The contract consisted of the dealer promising that the car was a ‘ good little bus ’ in return of the customer applying to the finance company to acquire it on hire-purchase terms . |