Example sentences of "[verb] on it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 , |
| 3 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 4 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 5 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 6 | I got , do n't know if they stop doing it altogether now , I really do n't know what erm , you see , I 've got an old one , but it says on it on the voucher it 's not trans none transferable . |
| 7 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 8 | British egg production had decreased because of constraints imposed on it by the ministry . |
| 9 | In his philosophy reality is the spiritual world contemplated by reason , the material world being a mere receptacle for the ideal forms imposed on it by the world-soul . |
| 10 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 11 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 12 | Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres . |
| 13 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 14 | Balanced with a diet of the gospels , I would look on it as the church planters ' manual . |
| 15 | stays on it on the game for about twenty minutes and he just sort of talks on and on |
| 16 | Disappointed at the constable 's absence , since he and Richard had prepared a verbal message for their mother , Edward remarked on it to the servant , a stranger , who brought their supper . |
| 17 | The programming interface is available now , and has won the support of suppliers including Intel Corp , L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Siemens AG , Alcatel NV and Lotus Development Corp , which are expected to start bringing out products based on it by the end of the year . |
| 18 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 19 | While it was unquestionably the most important candidate for saving by the nation , if all efforts had been concentrated on it to the exclusion of others the nation would have lost Belton and Calke . |
| 20 | ‘ the High Court , Court of Session or High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland , as the case may be , shall have the powers conferred on it by the following provisions of this Act . |
| 21 | This is contained in section 1 , which provides that the Bank of England shall have the powers conferred on it by the Act , and also ‘ the duty generally to supervise the institutions authorised by it in the exercise of those powers . ’ |
| 22 | There seems to be a strong argument now that the provisions of Regulation 5 of the UK Transfer Regulations , in so far as they make the transfer of the contract of employment compulsory on the employee as well as the employer , are ultra vires and so susceptible to judicial review , in the sense that the government in making the Regulations exceeded the powers conferred on it by the European Communities Act 1972 to make law by delegated legislation . |
| 23 | This one sheet of graph paper for our dieter will therefore have twelve points marked on it along the bottom axis ( one for each month ) and around thirty points marked on the other axis ( each point representing 1 lb or 0.45 kg ) . |
| 24 | In fact the1880s main building , a Grade I listed extravaganza modelled on Chambord , is in a structurally sound condition , having had money from the Pilgrim Trust , the Wolfson Foundation and the University Funding Council spent on it over the last ten years . |
| 25 | Mr. Harrison relies on it for the statement in the judgment of Lord Denman C.J. , at p. 683 : ‘ The debtee 's discharge of one joint and several debtor is a discharge of all . ’ |
| 26 | * Get into the habit of standing back from your essay so that you can comment on it for the benefit of your reader ( see p. 104 ) . |
| 27 | That is a remarkable achievement and I hope that we can build on it in the future . |
| 28 | We welcome that and will do all we can to sustain and build on it in the future . |
| 29 | The recent report of the National Foundation for Educational Research did not attribute any decline to the national curriculum ; the interpretation placed on it by the hon. Lady and her hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Southall ( Mr. Bidwell ) is based on a deliberate misreading of the report . |
| 30 | Most of the decisions on this covenant are rather old , due to the restrictive interpretation placed on it by the courts . |