Example sentences of "it [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then it goes on a strict reminder . |
| 2 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman was asked extensively by Mr. Frost — I have the transcript here and it goes on a fair bit — about Labour 's policy . |
| 3 | It lies on a prominent gravity high on the east shore of Lough Neagh : perhaps not surprisingly , it found no Carboniferous and passed from Permian into Lower Palaeozoic grits . |
| 4 | Finally it fixed on a black sword thrust straight through the branch above Rincewind 's head . |
| 5 | It stands on a small hill , higher than the other villas , with a private approach road and a large balcony looking out to sea . |
| 6 | It stands on a small mound at the junction of the two villages . |
| 7 | It stands on a rusticated arcade , the windows with their mullions and transoms still have their broken triangular pediments and the bays are divided with strapwork of Mannerist design . |
| 8 | The gene itself benefits , in terms of its vertical transmission , from the average effects that it has on a whole series of bodies . |
| 9 | It exposes on a minuscule scale a widely misunderstood but tiresome fact which Australia , Canada and other nations spawned by Britain have learned and taught on a larger scale . |
| 10 | Even the railway has charm as it curves on a fine viaduct where the River Finnan comes down from the mountains to enter Loch Shiel , a long and narrow sheet of water passing through high portals to reach green pastures after a serpentine course of seventeen miles . |
| 11 | It happened on a contra-flow system where there are roadworks . |
| 12 | It happened on an ordinary day , |
| 13 | Waco : CULT leader David Koresh may be drawing out the 34-day stand-off with federal agents so it ends on a religious holiday and fulfils his prophecies , the FBI said . |
| 14 | 2 Make a hay infusion ( Chapter 5 ) and leave it uncovered on a shady window-sill for several weeks , topping it up with cooled , boiled water when necessary . |
| 15 | In the beginning the gods created the world with everything in it organized on a permanent pattern . |
| 16 | Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation . |
| 17 | It differed in only two respects , that the turntable was a much narrower arrangement than the Wolverton one , and that when in the uncoupled position , it rested on a single support carried on two small wheels . |
| 18 | Meredith followed her line of sight and saw that it rested on an oldish-looking photo . |
| 19 | However , it can be shown that the runaway greenhouse effect , had it acted on an Earth-like quantity of water , can perhaps lead initially to a copious escape of hydrogen with no enhancement of D/ 1 H during this process . |
| 20 | It concentrates on an individual measure . |
| 21 | Not only , apparently , was it based on a misguided assumption about the nature of human action , but it also stands accused of paving the way for nefarious political ideologies ! |
| 22 | It embarked on a protectionist policy and in return for the grant of a tariff to an industry , demanded that its major producers should reorganize themselves . |
| 23 | For example , what would the courts do if Party A obtaining 40 per cent of the vote gained 60 per cent of the seats in the legislature because the remaining 60 per cent of the vote was split between three other parties , and then it embarked on a legislative programme which was discriminatory , anti-libertarian and anti-democratic ? |
| 24 | It relied on an effective flow of information between agencies ( see below ) and from the community and was undertaken with a view to avoiding crisis intervention and undue reliance on statutory services . |
| 25 | Both in the exclusion of the I-Thou relationship and in the critical method , an uneasy union of formalist grammatical analysis , highly idiosyncratic diagrams , and a belief that his approach is ‘ scientific , or ‘ objective ’ when it rests on a whole series of unargued critical assumptions , this remains a learned but peripheral book . |
| 26 | Finally , and fatally , it rests on a flawed understanding of the relevant medical facts . |
| 27 | It rests on a massive plinth of carboniferous limestone around the 1300-ft contour , this being based at valley level on impervious rock . |
| 28 | This approach may be called DUALIST , because it rests on an assumed dualism , in language , between form and meaning . |
| 29 | It draws on a narrow social class who are not representative of the country as a whole . |
| 30 | As her torch toured the room it alighted on an extraordinary sight . |