Example sentences of "it [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advantages : The grill is well positioned in one corner of the roof of the oven and browns food evenly as it turns on the turntable — excellent for cooking dishes such as lasagne and cauliflower cheese . |
| 2 | If a society 's year ended in , say , September , it passed on the tax the following January . |
| 3 | It rides on the back of the general move to increased white meat consumption and a greater public awareness of animal welfare issues . |
| 4 | At the sides , it clips on the side . |
| 5 | When the water evaporates it goes on a cloud and then the cloud goes in any place and later it goes out as rain . |
| 6 | Well it 's a very specialized boat in a sense , I mean it goes on the surface of the water and it literally goes on the surface of the water , it 's a hovercraft is a sort of a it 's a vessel which has got a skirt all round it |
| 7 | Every time it goes on the blink I wonder who 'll win . |
| 8 | So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think . |
| 9 | I just have to put it on when we 're talking and it goes on the tape you see |
| 10 | It always generates tremendous interest when it goes on the market because it 's a grade one house.It is a fascinating and very beautiful house |
| 11 | The District Councils have no money , the Government is not interested in cycling as a mode of transport , the Region does have a limited budget but most of it goes on the cycling team . |
| 12 | IBM would not comment , but aside from the position of OS/2 , it wins on the deal through its existing collaboration with Novell announced early last year . |
| 13 | That confusion between terminology and rigour , truth and exactitude , was to prove a weakness to the New Criticism in later years , since it laid on the critic a continuous duty to adopt or devise terms rigorous enough to satisfy himself and others . |
| 14 | Even the highly cosmopolitan and very trendy audiences of New York City did not know quite what to say about it ; a typical reaction was from May Okon , of the New York Sunday News who wrote : ‘ Jack Nicholson 's Drive , He Said is how it read on the marquee of the Third Avenue movie house . |
| 15 | Vinnen , whose offensive smacked of anti-semitism in that it centred on the figure of Paul Cassirer and lambasted the critics for being in the service of speculators and dealers , called for a boycott on the purchase of non-German art . |
| 16 | The sundial looks expensive — the metal part was a Christmas present from his brother , and it sits on a piece of balustrade given by a friend . |
| 17 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |
| 18 | What light does it throw on the extent of public information about parties and programmes , and on the nature of public support for parties ? |
| 19 | Estimated at £30,000–40,000 it sold on the telephone for £165,000 ( $264,000 ) . |
| 20 | Despite great advances in differential diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence in the past 25 years the handicap that it imposes on the sufferer has not been explored to any extent , nor has the way in which help has been sought and the effectiveness of such help . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Let it graze on the lawn if you like . |
| 23 | Functionally , it belongs on the surface/subsurface interface . |
| 24 | I 've put it resting on the dish so that any acid from it does n't get on to that bench there . |
| 25 | Now that 's er that 's er er a carborundum stone and it goes it fits on a jig at side of machine . |
| 26 | It fits on the page . |
| 27 | She lay for a few moments watching the patterns it made on the ceiling . |
| 28 | Popularly known as the " White Book " , it expanded on the programme announced when the government of Premier Jozsef Antall had taken office in May . |
| 29 | It builds on the experience of the past six years while , at the same time , recognising that improvements can be made in the light of that experience . |
| 30 | It builds on the argument in the preceding section where it was argued that because the cat sees and tries to extricate the ball stuck in the tree , it thereby manifests only those minimal beliefs that we would attribute directly to a human being in similar circumstances . |