Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] [noun] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Young age at marriage powerfully increases the fertility of working-class women , but it has less effect on the fertility of middle-class women . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 8 | Because it places little emphasis on sheer physical strength , kung fu is a discipline open to young and old alike . |
| 9 | It casts more doubt on Wallace 's conviction in 1981 of the killing of his friend , antique dealer Jonathan Lewis . |
| 10 | a right high one but it had er , had it got all things on top ? |
| 11 | It gets some advertising on its only local station , Cork 89FM , whose transmission hours are likely to be extended soon . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If you have no social life or circle of friends when you start your single lifestyle then it requires more effort on your part . |
| 14 | Why does it lay these things on you ? |
| 15 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 16 | ‘ Did it have any signs on it ? ’ |
| 17 | It was very basic indeed , and only by dint of preparation for the royal visitor did it have any carpeting on the stairs . |
| 18 | It repeated this request on 1 March 1984 , but the Commission took no action . |
| 19 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 20 | It took several miles on the bus and a lot of questions still to be answered outside his front door before he invited me in to meet his mother . |
| 21 | Organising a wedding in less than six to nine months can be done , but it means more pressure on your nerves and possibly your pocket . |
| 22 | And after scoring the derby winner against Everton in March , Rosy said : ‘ I 'd like to stay at Liverpool but not if it means another season on the bench . ’ |
| 23 | On these more complicated issues the short-paragraph style is less satisfactory , leading to over-simplification , but at least it puts these concerns on the green consumer 's agenda . |
| 24 | The advantages of this technique is that it puts less strain on the legs than straight front pointing and the uphill foot ( the one most difficult to flex when flat footing ) is kept horizontal . |
| 25 | It convened another meeting on 9 April to present the draft constitution and this meeting Officially brought NICRA into existence . |
| 26 | At the Federal level there is an Office of the Co-ordination of Soil and Water Conservation , but it has a tiny staff and its position within the Ministry of Agriculture does not enable it to have much influence on land-use decisions . |
| 27 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 28 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 29 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 30 | We had continuous news from the front , but unless it involved someone we knew , it had little effect on us . |