Example sentences of "it [vb -s] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short bout of exercise has a further role , namely of waking you up in the morning as it turns on the alerting mechanisms of the body . |
| 2 | It turns on the general relation between the justification for a binding directive and its status as a reason for action , and more generally on the relation between rules as reasons for action and their justification . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it is pernicious because it trades on the pernicious habit of labelling things or qualities ( hard/soft , consonant/vowel ) masculine or feminine ( a habit we must return to in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 5 | It rides on the back of the general move to increased white meat consumption and a greater public awareness of animal welfare issues . |
| 6 | At the sides , it clips on the side . |
| 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 | Valerie Petri , of Marlow , Bucks , said : ‘ The longer it goes on the worse it looks . ’ |
| 9 | Once , twice , smash , in it goes on the third kick . |
| 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 | I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty |
| 12 | And what it does really is keep the belt firm so when it goes on the former it keeps it firm . |
| 13 | Every time it goes on the blink I wonder who 'll win . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | If it need it to share the cost of the new one but once it goes on the |
| 16 | So it goes on the four of that , turn that up . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | I just have to put it on when we 're talking and it goes on the tape you see |
| 19 | While Zulfikar Ghose 's textual playfulness can be vexatious , even baffling , it insists on the partial , unreliable nature of memory itself , or , as Urim puts it , ‘ the enormous accumulation of fragments , lik images in a shattered mirror , which constituted my life ’ . |
| 20 | Apart from the fact that a possible-worlds approach inevitably runs into problems if it insists on the logical completeness of fictional universes , it seems to me that what is a valid issue in logic does not necessarily have to be a valid issue in poetics and narratology . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It involves on the one hand an examination of the changing local demand for labour , and on the other an examination of the effects of unemployment on , and the response of , local voluntary associations . |
| 23 | Like the linker , it sits on the main bed and has a cog wheel and spring at the rear to lock it on to the needlebed . |
| 24 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |
| 25 | If this does indeed prove to be the case , one of the most significant outcomes of the GCSE is likely to be the limitations it imposes on the parallel development of records of achievement . |
| 26 | Having regard to the terms of that subsection in its substituted and current form I would for my part place the duty which it imposes on the local authority on the decision-making , as distinct from the executive , side of the line . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 29 | ( 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |