Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 2 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 3 | The committee proposals for a Cornwall and West Plymouth European parliamentary constituency provoked an enormous response opposing the link with Plymouth er as it has done on each occasion that the constituency 's been reviewed . |
| 4 | Parsytec reckons the tests it has done on lower clock frequencies point to a six- to ten-fold performance increase over the T805 . |
| 5 | Parsytec reckons that the tests it has done on lower clock frequencies point to a six to tenfold performance improvement over the T805. — Lynn Stratton |
| 6 | Either its organisation is in so parlous a condition that it has to rely on active service units of such incompetence that they can not place bombs and give effective warnings . |
| 7 | If any good has come out of the Mandy 's story , it is the barrage of publicity it has provided on under-age sex . |
| 8 | Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies . |
| 9 | Kleinworts looked at setting up a common investment fund , and while , says Rupert Marlow , it has ‘ not eliminated the idea and may come in with something in due course ’ , it prefers to rely on authorised unit trusts and exempt unit trusts to manage its £250m of charity money . |
| 10 | The line labelled unc horizontal because none of the three variables of which it consists depends on national income . |
| 11 | It aims to capitalise on that experience by creating a second plank for the group in the engineering field . |
| 12 | He stressed , however , that Pakistan had no intention of producing a bomb as it wished to concentrate on economic development . |
| 13 | The Old Rectory was only a larger , less pretentious version of Sunnybank — ridiculously named since it had stood on level ground and no sun ever seemed to penetrate its windows . |
| 14 | Sex was the second principal category covered by the code — this is what it had to say on that subject as well as Vulgarity , Obscenity , profanity , Costume and Dances : |
| 15 | The dreaded disease had taken almost thirty years to reach Champagne since it was first identified in the Côtes-du-Rhône region , where it had arrived on experimental vine stocks shipped from America via London . |
| 16 | The company refused to say how much it had spent on environmental protection . |
| 17 | The company believes that the move may save it money in the long run — rather than merely lose it revenue — because reductions in electricity consumption should allow it to cut spending on new equipment needed to cope with increased demand . |
| 18 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 19 | It 's based on medical fact add and medical evidence based on er factual evidence reviewed by physicians . |
| 20 | It 's run on solid fuel , it 's a cooker |
| 21 | It 's cos it 's written on blue paper in tiny print . |