Example sentences of "it on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it on eastern worlds and ? |
| 2 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 3 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 4 | You can also work it on other machines which will knit holding position needles to working position on the slip or free pass setting . |
| 5 | She spent it on other things . |
| 6 | ( a ) in saying ‘ Something appears white ’ you are making certain assumptions about language ; you are assuming , for example , that the word ‘ white ’ , or the phrase ‘ appears white ’ , is being used in the way in which you have used it on other occasions , or in the way in which other people have used it . |
| 7 | Becoming very attached to this curious animal he took it on extensive travels until its death . |
| 8 | He had paid it no attention , for the light still reached it only by reflected glimpses ; but Isambard had lived with it on close terms for fifteen years , and knew it line for line and feature for feature . |
| 9 | The contract consisted of the dealer promising that the car was a ‘ good little bus ’ in return of the customer applying to the finance company to acquire it on hire-purchase terms . |
| 10 | If it accepts , it thereby agrees to purchase the item for cash from the trader and at the same time agrees to transfer it on hire-purchase terms to the customer . |
| 11 | The specifically indeterminate forms that inhabit the underside of misericords — birds with human heads , dragons with foliage tails — give way to bats , cats , men — on horseback or performing somersaults under the ledge to balance it on various parts of their anatomy . |
| 12 | A second way of facing our question concerning the superiority of telescopic to naked-eye observations is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the telescope in a practical way , by focusing it on distant towers , ships , etc. and demonstrating how the instrument magnifies and renders objects more distinctly visible . |
| 13 | Mr Lamont , when pressed on this last night at a meeting of the Conservative back-bench 1922 committee , justified it on environmental grounds , saying that the election pledge had been overtaken by a commitment at the Rio conference in June to cut Britain 's fuel consumption . |
| 14 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 15 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 16 | Under such unfavourable circumstances it was clearly not possible to pursue the Youth Allyah dream of creating a genuine community and to run it on democratic lines like a Kibbutz . |
| 17 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 18 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 19 | Sun will be getting parallelising technology from KAI that will decompose code and run it on multiple processors . |
| 20 | They enjoy water and do not hesitate to enter it on warm days . |
| 21 | Yeah , yes , but there there 's got ta come a time when they have to test it on human beings . |
| 22 | I blame it on medieval theologians who developed the system in order to confront and annihilate heresies that challenged the integrity of the Church . |
| 23 | Because you produced it on loose pages I could exhibit it month by month as you organised it . |
| 24 | I bet you beg for it on bended knees ! |
| 25 | Hence the fact that his fellow economists , who regarded it as mistaken , were at great pains to refute it on theoretical grounds . |
| 26 | This may lead those who would otherwise oppose the practice to defend it on cultural grounds . |
| 27 | Selecting the optimum building and obtaining it on satisfactory terms are matters of great importance where institutional finance is involved . |
| 28 | The Council feel that SARU should concentrate on raising money for the development of rugby in the townships rather than spend it on overseas tours to countries which can not afford to finance the visits . |
| 29 | The need for improved facilities for Arts and Social Studies , as an aid to the recruitment and retention of academic staff and to assist in the improvement of research activity , has caused the University to launch a review or three sites ( namely the area around the St Cross Building , the central site surrounding the Bodleian Library , and the Taylorian/Ashmolean site ) to see what scope there is for the rationalisation of existing uses and what changes can be made to make better use of them , with a view to defining a comprehensive and coherent scheme for the development of each site which has most to commend it on academic grounds . |
| 30 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |