Example sentences of "it [vb -s] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Once , twice , smash , in it goes on the third kick . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The dream itself has no meaning ; the effect it has on the second person tells a great deal about that person . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 16 | They do n't know the impact it has on the British public . ’ |
| 17 | The contrary contention is that there is a legal obligation even though it depends on the innocent party 's making the election . |
| 18 | ‘ It depends on the individual case . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Not only that its value depends on H , but , even worse , it depends on the previous history of the sample . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One tries to explain that it happens on the odd occasion , at Question Time , which is not a great parliamentary occasion , and that is what the media pick up . |
| 24 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 25 | This first capacitor is then connected to the second one in the chain via a buffet stage so that it passes on the sampled voltage . |
| 26 | That 's what it says on the bleeding sheet . |
| 27 | But they 've also pooled together in this single regeneration budget on , and er , as it says on the back page , all those other budgets which were all handled separately before , to create this very large pool of money that is available . |
| 28 | The result is interesting because it bears on the following problem . |
| 29 | It ends on the first closing date or , if later , the date when the offer becomes or is declared unconditional as to acceptances or lapses . |
| 30 | It concentrates on the specific interactions , the ‘ drama ’ , without investigating the importance of the social system itself . |