Example sentences of "it [vb -s] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 However , it trades on special terms , which this chapter has attempted to describe .
2 How do you think I feel when I bring home three hundred a twenty quid a week , and all of it goes on fucking bills !
3 The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ .
4 mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright .
5 Thus the function of the family is the effect it has on other parts of the social structure and on society as a whole .
6 More important , it has on several occasions presented to the European Commission solutions to technical problems with the Directives which have had the unanimous support of member associations .
7 The incidence of a tax describes the distribution of the burden it places on different individuals or groups within society .
8 It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural .
9 But it 's rare and it depends on all kinds of things — like how mature you both are , how much experience of relationships you have and how well you could cope with time spent apart .
10 We noted in Chapter 4 that it is hard to predict which sentences will have very many overlapping interpretations , that it depends on many factors including the phonemes in the utterance , the content of the lexicon , and so on .
11 It depends on some friends of mine .
12 The degree of competition in a market is an imprecise concept , as it depends on those factors which force firms to take account of the possibility that their business will be lost to rivals if they do not satisfy their customers .
13 It arrives on several disks , in a box covered with glossy pictures and explanations ( sometimes exaggerations ) about its capabilities .
14 It arrives on ten disks , not all of which are needed , and , being a Windows application , installs very easily .
15 If it passes on lower costs to its customers in the form of lower prices it may be open to the accusation of behaving in a predatory fashion .
16 This course recruits 15 students across the method range ; it dwells on metaphoric aspects of language and learning .
17 5.00pm : It closes on foreign markets at 2.7528 marks — two pfennigs below ERM floor .
18 Consequently the effective osmotic pressure that it exerts on biological membranes is far less than its osmotic pressure measured by an osmometer .
19 Maitlin erm you 'll notice that it concentrates on spatial frequencies which is a particular interpretation of the type studies where you look at the responses of the brain to particular stimuli .
20 If it succeeds , it will be because it concentrates on achievable tasks .
21 Go on , Jungle , it 's Sunday , knock it off , you want to shout as it rattles on 24 hrs per day .
22 It advises on these cases .
23 Indeed , that is its point , that it draws on other criteria of evaluation .
24 It draws on authentic texts from a variety of disciplines in the social sciences such as economics , sociology , and political history .
25 It draws on similar campaigns by the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing and is aimed at people in the ABC1 social class .
26 However , as we move out of the inner city the trend to backing is reversed , and the system swings back again to front realizations J. Milroy , 1982b ) : it converges on front-vowel realizations to the extent that all items ( except those with following /r/ ) including items such as grass , path ( which are back-vowel items in both RP and inner-city vernacular ) have the front vowel .
27 The anecdote is instructive for the light it throws on changing relationships with clinicians .
28 Spokeswoman Wanda Anderson said : ‘ There is a danger that because the hospice runs so efficiently people may forget how heavily it relies on public donations and fund-raising .
29 It balances on thick joints
30 But bearing in mind the people Ford says the car is aimed at , the greatest surprise is just how cumbersome and unwieldy it feels on everyday journeys .
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