Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You also have to think of the effect it has on other people , how er if you just let people get away with it , it does n't mean you hate them , loathe them and damn them but er you 've got to make them realise that for other people , for everybody .
2 Thus the function of the family is the effect it has on other parts of the social structure and on society as a whole .
3 The anecdote is instructive for the light it throws on changing relationships with clinicians .
4 It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn .
5 Jacobitism was a continual destabilising force in British politics under the later Stuarts , so it is vital to consider precisely what impact it had on partisan strife during this period , and exactly how widespread sympathies for the exiled Stuarts were amongst the general population .
6 The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine .
7 Like a monorail it relies on elevated track , but in principle it is much like a train on the Paris metro , except the track is vertical rather than horizontal .
8 The incidence of a tax describes the distribution of the burden it places on different individuals or groups within society .
9 I would also nominate William Trevor , who is comparison a miniaturist with a Dostoevskian eye for the odd little incident , the world of the irrational and the way it impinges on ordinary life . ’
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