Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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1 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
2 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
3 | Sailing along at forty five degrees to the wind the sail is in tightly and it needs constant adjustment on the tiller to stay on that right course because the wind is never totally steady . |
4 | scale is not linear and it puts enormous weight on being alive and not much on whether you are active or working . |
5 | Its publications reach over 300 women 's groups in Argentina , and it organises regular workshops on women and religion and alternative communication . |
6 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
7 | If you , in case A , if you imagine that you 're presented with with a piece of paper or card and it has two symbols on it , right ? |
8 | It is peripheral to the interests of the Highland Board , and it makes considerable demands on the time of Board Staff . |
9 | This , I would argue , though not all would agree , may tell us something interesting about the way the brain compartmentalizes different aspects of visual processing and it may tell us that subjects are more conservative about admitting to seeing a very degraded image than about trying to move their eyes to it , but it sheds little light on the actual experiences the patients are having when we show them a light . |
10 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
11 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
12 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
13 | This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours . |
14 | Young age at marriage powerfully increases the fertility of working-class women , but it has less effect on the fertility of middle-class women . |
15 | This need not be a problem , especially as each will have a different approach to the same material , but it makes obvious sense on many counts if the teachers are each prepared for this by consultation . ) |
16 | Scientists say they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , but it means regular checks on the volunteers . |
17 | Scientists say they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , but it means regular checks on the volunteers . |
18 | Organising a wedding in less than six to nine months can be done , but it means more pressure on your nerves and possibly your pocket . |
19 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |