Example sentences of "it [verb] on an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened on an ordinary day , |
| 2 | Meredith followed her line of sight and saw that it rested on an oldish-looking photo . |
| 3 | However , it can be shown that the runaway greenhouse effect , had it acted on an Earth-like quantity of water , can perhaps lead initially to a copious escape of hydrogen with no enhancement of D/ 1 H during this process . |
| 4 | It concentrates on an individual measure . |
| 5 | It relied on an effective flow of information between agencies ( see below ) and from the community and was undertaken with a view to avoiding crisis intervention and undue reliance on statutory services . |
| 6 | This approach may be called DUALIST , because it rests on an assumed dualism , in language , between form and meaning . |
| 7 | As her torch toured the room it alighted on an extraordinary sight . |
| 8 | So I I think it started on an informal basis , you know everyone was just a little bit fed up with the way they 're being treated and the way you know been told how much we could earn , how we could earn it , when when we could earn it and all this sort of palaver . |
| 9 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | Since it runs on an expensive AI computer with an equally expensive tool kit software , some of the PLANIT members funded an extension of the project to translate the IPA into a more readily available and cheaper expert system running on an IBM PC or AT class of machine . |
| 11 | Poacher Marino Malerba , 35 , shot a stag dead as it stood on an overhanging rock in Trento , Italy . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , however , he could give no indication of an average contract value , saying that it depended on an individual company 's cost structure , and on how many services it required . |