Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 2 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This might be called a ‘ metalinguistic ’ strategy since it involves self-conscious reflection on words — their history , their etymology , even sometimes their spelling . |
| 5 | It imposes useful discipline on the production of a functional diagram in two ways . |
| 6 | It offers practical advice on team work , time and task management , leadership and delegation , the motivation of others and many other topics . |
| 7 | Drawing on the organisation 's wide range of membrane technology expertise , it offers impartial advice on improving process efficiency . |
| 8 | Sailing along at forty five degrees to the wind the sail is in tightly and it needs constant adjustment on the tiller to stay on that right course because the wind is never totally steady . |
| 9 | It has little impact on local history studies , for gradually the system of numbering the days of the month as a continuous series was , with one outstanding exception , accepted . |
| 10 | The publicity is fairly short-lived , of course it has tremendous effect on the British media , and we 're all very , very happy for the families of these people |
| 11 | Consultation has revealed a most marked preference for route A , which is the green route shown on the consultation leaflet attached to the report and if , if looks would divert the primary route the A ten sixty five around the north west premature , the town of Brandon , the summary table of cost and benefits showed within the consultation leaflet identifies that route A gives the best value for money , it has least impact on land use and it offers the shortage and therefore possibly the most attractive reduction to bypassable traffic on the A ten sixty five access . |
| 12 | The simplicity of the process assumed for aggregate demand is something we shall return to later , since it has some bearing on the interpretation of Lucas 's results . |
| 13 | Young age at marriage powerfully increases the fertility of working-class women , but it has less effect on the fertility of middle-class women . |
| 14 | This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours . |
| 15 | Not unexpectedly , perhaps , it contains that spot on the world 's surface that is most distant from land — where the longitude 118° 30'W intersects 47° 30 'S is an equal 1,560 miles from the nearest coasts of Chile , peter Island in Antarctica and an uninhabited British colonial possession , a member of the Pitcairn group called Ducie Island . |
| 16 | Because it places little emphasis on sheer physical strength , kung fu is a discipline open to young and old alike . |
| 17 | In the first place it places great stress on individual responsibility . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It places high worth on loyalties — employee , customer , social — and sets a compassionate state at the centre of these values , providing both decent social provision and a regulated environment for fair competition . |
| 20 | Their trip was sponsored by a number of organisations , including LASMO , which was particularly keen to support the trip , as it places considerable emphasis on supporting environmental initiatives . |
| 21 | Subject to congressional approval , it proposed increased spending on highways , mass public transport systems , bridge improvement and highway safety programmes . |
| 22 | It received Royal Assent on 16 July and comes into force on 16 October . |
| 23 | It casts more doubt on Wallace 's conviction in 1981 of the killing of his friend , antique dealer Jonathan Lewis . |
| 24 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 25 | It says remote control on the top but it 's the wrong front , I think , on it I saw yesterday , yeah . |
| 26 | ‘ It says cardiac arrest on the death certificate , but a proper autopsy was never carried out , ’ said the DS , ‘ The certificate was signed by some geezer called … ’ he consulted his notes , ‘ Doctor Robert Dexter . |
| 27 | 3 At waterfall it climbs steep bank on right and descends to cross footbridge . |
| 28 | Let's stick to this concept , I , I welcome it , I think it shows good thinking on the part of our officers and I would like to suggest that er , I take er , a back seat on this one , and I , I , I 'd feel probably , set up a sub-committee , I would think four or five is ample , and I would like to propose that Malcolm chairs this meeting , so that we have a fresh brain and a younger brain , looking at the future 's problems . |
| 29 | It gets some advertising on its only local station , Cork 89FM , whose transmission hours are likely to be extended soon . |
| 30 | This flexibility of approach is repeated in P P G four , paragraph sixteen , where it states that advice on greenbelts where industrial and commercial development is not normally be appropriate , is provided in P P G two . |