Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them .
2 I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them .
3 But what was very enthralling about the jury service argument was the effect it had on older people themselves .
4 It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day .
5 Thus the function of the family is the effect it has on other parts of the social structure and on society as a whole .
6 You also have to think of the effect it has on other people , how er if you just let people get away with it , it does n't mean you hate them , loathe them and damn them but er you 've got to make them realise that for other people , for everybody .
7 The anecdote is instructive for the light it throws on changing relationships with clinicians .
8 In a yellow cornfield near Marlott village it shone on two large arms of painted wood .
9 It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn .
10 It was imagined that like lizards it went on all fours ; bones were mounted this way in museums , and at the Great Exhibition of 1851 hollow model dinosaurs were made to entertain the public .
11 The Vale of White Horse say they 're disappointed at the decision … but Oxfordshire County Council are satisfied at the 58 conditions it imposes on National Power .
12 Somehow it has measured and remembered the distance it ran on each stage of its outward journey .
13 The Wilson Committee itself summarised the evidence it received on this issue as follows :
14 Alone among French sailors the Bailli de Suffren showed himself willing , in his campaigns of 1781–83 in the Indian Ocean , to challenge this fundamentally defensive attitude and the emphasis it laid on minor tactical and territorial advantages .
15 Within a week it puts on another 9 kilos .
16 Jacobitism was a continual destabilising force in British politics under the later Stuarts , so it is vital to consider precisely what impact it had on partisan strife during this period , and exactly how widespread sympathies for the exiled Stuarts were amongst the general population .
17 The irony is that the more people are encouraged to think about their behaviour and take responsibility for the impact it has on other people , the more they tend to become open and honest rather than furtive and clandestine .
18 Like a monorail it relies on elevated track , but in principle it is much like a train on the Paris metro , except the track is vertical rather than horizontal .
19 Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing .
20 The incidence of a tax describes the distribution of the burden it places on different individuals or groups within society .
21 When the case was heard before Worthing magistrates it ended on 15 November with the assault charges being dismissed but Mosley , Joyce , Budd and Mullan were committed to Lewes Assizes on charges of riotous assembly .
22 I would also nominate William Trevor , who is comparison a miniaturist with a Dostoevskian eye for the odd little incident , the world of the irrational and the way it impinges on ordinary life . ’
23 In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 .
24 The Forest law was universally hated because of the penalties and restrictions it imposed on all classes of the king 's subjects .
25 The reason I like this section is because I like the way Mrs Aimsley thinks , the more expensive her glass , the better a position it deserves on one of her shelves .
26 In fact it puts on this performance several times a day .
27 At the end of a quarter of a mile of rough track it seems on first sight to be a typically humble and remote farmhouse , with its low and unobtrusive policies almost growing around it .
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