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

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1 It laid great emphasis on value for money auditing and recommended that all health authorities establish value for money teams whose role would be to effect annual savings which could be used for improving services .
2 In the first place it places great stress on individual responsibility .
3 It emphasises lengthy and direct involvement with one 's subjects , sometimes over a period of years ; it places great stress on the recording of actual speech ; and it stresses the need to consider the apparently trivial , the story behind the story , the background that is normally omitted from conventional journalism .
4 It requires great skill on the part of the teacher to match tasks to attainment levels and in reality it will prove unusual starting from a core to have a task which only addresses one level within one target .
5 It takes great concentration on their part , and for weeks ahead their Teacher Phyl Bailey carefully guides them through rehearsals .
6 Taken as a whole , the 1950s can be seen as a decade in which everyone had to work very hard just to keep the District on an even keel : it reflects great credit on all concerned that , in statistical terms , the decline of the early fifties was halted so that ultimately an expansionist phase could begin .
7 Mr Ellis went on to say that sales had held up very well in the worst year for the retail trade that he had seen ‘ It reflects great credit on the sales team ’ he said .
8 IBM moved towards sales rather than renting ; it placed greater emphasis on software ; it invested massively in automated factories .
9 ‘ I do not like the law change because it puts greater pressure on referees , who now have more power than ever .
10 The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 .
11 It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it .
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