Example sentences of "it [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 2 | Steven Spielberg 's much hyped dinosaur movie dubbed ’ Jaws with Claws ’ is expected to be a huge box office hit when it goes on general release this week . |
| 3 | You 've no sooner done one lot of washing up than you 've got another lot , and that 's how it goes on all day . |
| 4 | It goes on controlled release in July and general availability is set for October , but there was no indication of price . |
| 5 | It goes on controlled release in July and general availability is set for October , but there was no indication of price . |
| 6 | ‘ The general public has a deepseated distrust of science and technology , and insists on ‘ civilian control ’ of science and scientists just as it insists on civilian control of the military ’ . |
| 7 | Although signatures can be added after the initial printing of the Motion ( and usually are ) , its impact is judged very much on the amount of support it receives on first printing . |
| 8 | The Vale of White Horse say they 're disappointed at the decision … but Oxfordshire County Council are satisfied at the 58 conditions it imposes on National Power . |
| 9 | The ‘ authors of the ‘ neutralisation ’ idea ’ were accused of trying to decide the Afghan people 's fate for them ‘ without asking the government of that country what its position is and what it thinks on this score ’ . |
| 10 | Development at Scott Lithgow could be hampered by the fact that it lies on unimproved land outside the Inverclyde Enterprise Zone . |
| 11 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
| 12 | It bounced on initial impact and came to rest inverted . |
| 13 | I , I used to drive Sheena , but I can safely say that I live on the A seventy seven , aggression is equally as bad as drinking driving , because you see it happening on that road every day , aggression they cut out they cut in , you do n't know where their coming from , er at least a drunken driver tries to go straight and make 's the mistake |
| 14 | It focusses on small-scale interaction rather than society as a whole . |
| 15 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 16 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 17 | It starts on one moment |
| 18 | One which the Act employs in relation to information which can be briefly conveyed , is to require it to appear on all business communications of the company . |
| 19 | It lives on biological matter . |
| 20 | Offe 's account of the state has to be distinguished from ‘ capital derivative ’ versions and offers an account of why the state favours capital within capitalism by pointing out that as the state apparatus depends on revenues drawn from capitalist accumulation , it depends on stable accumulation for its own functioning . |
| 21 | ( 6 ) History assists intellectual development in that it depends on rational argument and discussion , and provides practice in the skills necessary to argue a case . |
| 22 | Taking a funeral policy can cost less than paying for a funeral plan by instalments but it depends on average life expectancy . |
| 23 | I mean it depends on each organization does n't it ? |
| 24 | It 's a Cold War equation — it depends on mutual destruction . |
| 25 | Braille is a particularly useful tool for probing predictions from different models because it depends on fine discrimination of raised dot patterns , and a rule system of contractions . |
| 26 | Moreover , it is anything but unplanned since it depends on considerable state involvement , promotion , and subsidy . |
| 27 | The Wilson Committee itself summarised the evidence it received on this issue as follows : |
| 28 | Duodenal ulcer arises because aggressive forces outweigh duodenal defences and most attempts to study and treat it focus on acid-pepsin attack . |
| 29 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 30 | Where it occurs on open land , bird species characteristic of open country are replaced by those which prefer the limited cover afforded by young trees and are in turn replaced , as the forest matures , by those species which are forest dwellers ( Bibby 1987 ) . |