Example sentences of "it [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the hell did I get it for — to have it sit on the fucking shelf ? |
| 2 | ‘ And I want it to go on the same way till I 'm free to offer you more . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | IT WAS once an independent state , all 32 square miles of it ; but it got on the wrong side of the local superpower , whereupon angry Athens exiled its inhabitants for daring to ally themselves with Sparta . |
| 6 | Once , twice , smash , in it goes on the third kick . |
| 7 | Apart from the fact that a possible-worlds approach inevitably runs into problems if it insists on the logical completeness of fictional universes , it seems to me that what is a valid issue in logic does not necessarily have to be a valid issue in poetics and narratology . |
| 8 | It involves on the one hand an examination of the changing local demand for labour , and on the other an examination of the effects of unemployment on , and the response of , local voluntary associations . |
| 9 | It tinted dry artistic Italian cypress trees and the undersides of vine leaves , it lived on the damp bark of English oaks and thorns . |
| 10 | Like the linker , it sits on the main bed and has a cog wheel and spring at the rear to lock it on to the needlebed . |
| 11 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 12 | If this does indeed prove to be the case , one of the most significant outcomes of the GCSE is likely to be the limitations it imposes on the parallel development of records of achievement . |
| 13 | Having regard to the terms of that subsection in its substituted and current form I would for my part place the duty which it imposes on the local authority on the decision-making , as distinct from the executive , side of the line . |
| 14 | Having stated the case you may legitimately put it into its historical setting in order to show what advance it made on the previous law ; and you may also indicate the trend of development that it started . |
| 15 | The substantial advances which it made on the earlier law were two : |
| 16 | I am sure that all my colleagues are as delighted as I am to support this excellent Bill , not least because it builds on the firm foundation organised during the passage of our privatisation measures . |
| 17 | It lies on the eastern edge of the Ruhr coalfield and is some fifteen miles from the Möhne Dam , one of the targets of the famous ‘ Dambusters ’ raid . |
| 18 | It lies on the northern margin of the Skiddaw Granite in a greisen zone with veins of quartz carrying wolframite , scheelite and sulphides ( MRP 7 , 33 and 60 ; Ball and others , 1985a ) . |
| 19 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 20 | Peace News reported on the revolt against the ‘ multiversity ’ at the symbol of liberal corporate America , the Berkeley campus within the University of California ; it reported on the growing movement that had sprung out of the deep south civil rights campaign . |
| 21 | It caught on the second try , and after a minute 's revving he switched off the ignition and let it die . |
| 22 | The dream itself has no meaning ; the effect it has on the second person tells a great deal about that person . |
| 23 | They do n't know the impact it has on the British public . ’ |
| 24 | It concentrated on the obvious truth that children of lower ability would have needs that should be met , whatever the organizational forms of schooling . |
| 25 | The contrary contention is that there is a legal obligation even though it depends on the innocent party 's making the election . |
| 26 | ‘ It depends on the individual case . ’ |
| 27 | To get at the true explanation we must concentrate on the fact that the bureaucracy 's ‘ particular functioning is not directly determined by its class membership , by the political functioning of those classes and functions from which it originates : it depends on the concrete functioning of the state apparatus , i.e. on the place of the state in the ensemble of a formation and on its complex relations with the various classes and fractions ’ . |
| 28 | It depends on the local growth rate , which is partly a function of family size , but one of the great features has been that the high fertility areas , with the exception perhaps of Northern Ireland , which is a rather special case , these tended to have become closer together . |
| 29 | Not only that its value depends on H , but , even worse , it depends on the previous history of the sample . |
| 30 | The mean values converge therefore to and the relative shares in lifetime income are i.e. , it depends on the intrinsic growth of capital , the rate of population growth , and the relative means of the random terms in the two equations . |