Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involves change on the individual and the social setting level , whether an organization , local community , or national policy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Unemployment is harmful because it imposes costs on society . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has shields on its body and flanges on its legs that exactly match the hue and surface texture of the orchid petals . |
| 7 | It has articles on such subjects as geometrical art . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sultan what is it the all bran , it has sultanas on it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It contains sections on high-level problem solving , tortoise ( sic ) graphics with no reference to LOGO , and various algorithms programmed in ADA . |
| 15 | It contains data on pay settlements ( both on wage and non-wage elements ) on bargaining group basis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It wants guidelines on the frequency of such commercials , and questioned whether the ads should be directed at children at all . |
| 19 | Philips says that although it holds patents on the system , and must license any firm that wants to sell players , the company put no clause in the licence to control undercutting . |
| 20 | It causes sores on the lips , face , eyes , and mouth , on the genitalia , occasionally elsewhere on the skin , and rarely causes a very serious infection in the central nervous system of the newborn . |
| 21 | Thus a full description of what is wrong with pornography is that it reinforces desires on the part of men to treat women as objects , as means , and thus , indirectly , it reinforces male power . |
| 22 | The problem with approaching children 's reading from a ‘ classics ’ approach — identify the best , the books ‘ of transparently permanent greatness ’ ( Rosenheim , 1980 , p.5 1 ) and give them to the children — is that it places emphasis on the book , on the literary work , and not on the needs and tastes of the individual reader . |
| 23 | It places emphasis on external evaluation and it undervalues the individual young reader 's assessment . |
| 24 | In order for an exchange to become a recognised investment exchange , it must demonstrate to the SIB that , inter alia : ( a ) it has financial resources sufficient for the proper performance of its functions ; ( b ) that it has rules and practices which ensure that business conducted by means of its facilities is conducted in an orderly manner , affording proper protection to investors ; ( c ) it limits dealings on the exchange to investments in which there is a proper market ; ( d ) where relevant , issuers of investments dealt in on the exchange are required to comply with such obligations as will , so far as possible , afford to persons dealing in the investments proper information for determining their current value ; ( e ) it has its own arrangements for ensuring performance of transactions effected on the exchange or ensures their performance by means of services provided under clearing arrangements made by it with a recognised clearing house ; ( f ) it has ( or secures the provision on its behalf of ) satisfactory arrangements for recording the transaction effected on the exchange ; ( g ) it has adequate arrangements and resources for the effective monitoring and enforcement of compliance with its rules and any clearing arrangements made by it ; ( h ) it has effective arrangements for the investigation of complaints in respect of business transacted by means of its facilities ; and ( i ) it is able and willing to promote and maintain high standards of integrity and fair dealing in the carrying on of investment business and to co-operate by the sharing of information and otherwise with regulators . |
| 25 | As the work of a man who is not only a poet but a Catholic poet , Paradiso is hardly a typical case , but the sheer volume of fiction produced in Spanish America in recent decades — and continues to be produced — scarcely betokens a general collapse of confidence in the written word , and it is noteworthy that Cabrera Infante 's Three Trapped Tigers , for example , re-creates the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Havana even as it casts doubt on the feasibility of such an enterprise . |
| 26 | Poulantzas ' reply to this criticism is instructive , partly because it tells us more about pertinent effects themselves , but also because it casts light on his general approach . |
| 27 | Well it says Newark on front . |
| 28 | Turn on the No it says turn on something turn on |
| 29 | I 'll tell you about Evan Roberts later , and there 's plenty to tell even to those who buy a magazine simply because it says Climber on the cover . |
| 30 | It says bastard on his back ! |