Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 2 | The other important feature of this Act was that it legitimized expenditure on secondary and technical schools , and thereby stimulated the growth of this element of state education . |
| 3 | It involves change on the individual and the social setting level , whether an organization , local community , or national policy . |
| 4 | It became law on May , 29 1970 — creating many new rights for the disabled over a wide field and elevating the subject in Parliament . |
| 5 | In June a government bill to privatize 30 per cent of Romania 's state-owned companies ran into opposition both within Parliament and from independent trade unions , but it became law on Aug. 14 [ see p. 38400 ] . |
| 6 | If the preservation of the protein structure in metal-free forms is a preferred feature in biological systems , it imposes constraints on the evolution of these proteins and may explain why evolution seems to have disfavoured highly charged metal clusters and why the more hydrophobic porphyrin systems dominate in higher organisms . |
| 7 | Unemployment is harmful because it imposes costs on society . |
| 8 | The 50 per cent discount that it offers shareholders on its ferry crossings boosted the number of shareholders by 60 per cent to 160,000 between 1981 and 1984 . |
| 9 | It offers guidance on the establishment of subject headings which have several layers of subdivisions and which , as such , can only be described as pre-coordinate headings . |
| 10 | Balor did not grudge offering guests a mite of good wine , because it was only polite , but there was no denying it made inroads on your hoard . |
| 11 | Then , it made £9m on sales of £223m . |
| 12 | It made counter-proposals on March 31 which called for the constitution to be drafted and adopted by a 400-member body elected on the basis of " one-person-one-vote " and using a system of proportional representation . |
| 13 | It involved work on the quayside in which the steel pipe , seven metres long and used for lifting , had to be slotted onto a plate prior to it being hoisted into position by a crane and welded . |
| 14 | One man died on board the Reine Mathilde when it caught fire on April 9 , sailing between Caen in France and Portsmouth , England , although not directly as a result of the fire ; arson was not suspected . |
| 15 | It caught Jotan on the forehead and he collapsed without a sound . |
| 16 | The Government was claiming it was entitled to intervene under an EC directive which allowed it to impose restrictions on ‘ retransmissions ’ of broadcasts from other member states . |
| 17 | It has shields on its body and flanges on its legs that exactly match the hue and surface texture of the orchid petals . |
| 18 | It has articles on such subjects as geometrical art . |
| 19 | It has members on both sides of the Atlantic and one of its ideals is to encourage contact between 9th Air Force veterans and British people . |
| 20 | So on the bench here we have a a device on a a tripod , again , it has wheels on it where marked off in what looks like degrees . |
| 21 | It has drawers on one side and a cupboard on the other with a couple of those shelves that pull out for putting your mug of coffee on . |
| 22 | But obviously er , as the Chief says , it has impacts on our S S A , so really we need , in money terms , to be able to give er , a relatively high value of call out . |
| 23 | Sultan what is it the all bran , it has sultanas on it . |
| 24 | It contains articles on a range of topics that were originally presented at the Research in chemical education in the tertiary sector symposium held in Nottingham in September 1990 . |
| 25 | It contains sections on high-level problem solving , tortoise ( sic ) graphics with no reference to LOGO , and various algorithms programmed in ADA . |
| 26 | It contains data on pay settlements ( both on wage and non-wage elements ) on bargaining group basis . |
| 27 | The reader is requested to bear in mind that the Handbook is not a grammar , or a book on linguistic science , literature or psychology ( though it contains items on all these subjects ) — it is rather a practical book directed towards the study of teaching English as a Foreign Language . |
| 28 | It contains guidance on arrangements to transfer local authority residential care homes to independent control ; it also gives Directions from the Secretary of State for Health about local authorities ' continuing responsibility for residents in transferred homes whose care was arranged by the local authority under Section 21(1) of the National Assistance Act 1948 ( as amended by paragraph 2(1) , Schedule 23 to the Local Government Act 1972 ) and under paragraph 2 , Schedule 8 to the National Health Service Act 1977 . |
| 29 | It wants guidelines on the frequency of such commercials , and questioned whether the ads should be directed at children at all . |
| 30 | This was the first major investigation of the working of the 1944 Education Act ( see Chapter 4 ) , and it cast doubt on the effectiveness of the Act in reducing social-class-based inequalities in education . |