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

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1 Advantages : The grill is well positioned in one corner of the roof of the oven and browns food evenly as it turns on the turntable — excellent for cooking dishes such as lasagne and cauliflower cheese .
2 It rides on the back of the general move to increased white meat consumption and a greater public awareness of animal welfare issues .
3 At the sides , it clips on the side .
4 When the water evaporates it goes on a cloud and then the cloud goes in any place and later it goes out as rain .
5 Well it 's a very specialized boat in a sense , I mean it goes on the surface of the water and it literally goes on the surface of the water , it 's a hovercraft is a sort of a it 's a vessel which has got a skirt all round it
6 Every time it goes on the blink I wonder who 'll win .
7 So , short of sending the recording tape on a long detour through the corridors of the Palace of Westminster before it goes on the air , the parliamentary censors will have to work faster than they think .
8 I just have to put it on when we 're talking and it goes on the tape you see
9 It always generates tremendous interest when it goes on the market because it 's a grade one house.It is a fascinating and very beautiful house
10 The District Councils have no money , the Government is not interested in cycling as a mode of transport , the Region does have a limited budget but most of it goes on the cycling team .
11 IBM would not comment , but aside from the position of OS/2 , it wins on the deal through its existing collaboration with Novell announced early last year .
12 The sundial looks expensive — the metal part was a Christmas present from his brother , and it sits on a piece of balustrade given by a friend .
13 If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues .
14 Despite great advances in differential diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence in the past 25 years the handicap that it imposes on the sufferer has not been explored to any extent , nor has the way in which help has been sought and the effectiveness of such help .
15 ( 4 ) A covenant by the lessee for the repair of the premises is of no effect so far as it relates to the matters mentioned in subsection ( l ) ( a ) to ( c ) , except so far as it imposes on the lessee any of the requirements mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) ( a ) or ( c ) .
16 But , owing to the fact that on the ebb tide water movement is confined to the depressions , the sediment deposited will not accumulate in the depressions to the same extent that it accumulates on the ridges .
17 Functionally , it belongs on the surface/subsurface interface .
18 Now that 's er that 's er er a carborundum stone and it goes it fits on a jig at side of machine .
19 It fits on the page .
20 It operates on the principle of " one person , one vote , " but there is now some dispute as to its legitimacy and that of the government it produces on the grounds that the principle of " one person , one vote , one value " has not been fully realized .
21 It builds on the experience of the past six years while , at the same time , recognising that improvements can be made in the light of that experience .
22 It builds on the argument in the preceding section where it was argued that because the cat sees and tries to extricate the ball stuck in the tree , it thereby manifests only those minimal beliefs that we would attribute directly to a human being in similar circumstances .
23 It lies on the slates , unmarked except by sparrows ; it swells and balloons over the edge of the launders .
24 When it lies on the Moon the dust plus any small rocks is called the regolith .
25 It lies on the easter outskirts of Brighton in East Sussex , and today is the home of three Territorial Army units , each representing a different part of the Army .
26 Bruises of the periosteum of bones ( it lies on the surface of bones and is easily injured where the bones lie just beneath the skin , for example , elbow , shin or kneecap ) .
27 For me a badly painted reflection fades away , while in a good painting it lies on the surface and itself creates a consistently advancing plane .
28 It has been identified as the Alauna of the Ravenna list by Rivet and Smith , although Richmond and Crawford earlier assigned this name to Alchester , which in some ways makes better sense , since its neighbours quoted in the list would indicate that it lies on the road from Silchester to the south Midlands ; nevertheless the derivation of the name of the River Alne from Alauna , and hence the name of the town on or near that river , is an attractive argument in favour of Rivet and Smith .
29 There is no conclusive proof , but it is a reasonable assumption , that the Romans knew the place for it lies on the line of their road , which followed that ridge , between their settlements at Manchester and Buxton .
30 The text is clear and readable , both in terms of subject matter and the way it lies on the page , and the six page bibliography is a delight .
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