Example sentences of "[adj] on it " in BNC.

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1 Although Microsoft has not yet gone very public on it , MSDOS 6 is due by the end of March 1993 , and will include the following utilities :
2 His child had the weight of all this on it .
3 Yeah mine 's got this on it , my er video one .
4 I was then permitted a short time during the lunch interval to study this new material before being cross-examined on it .
5 ‘ I think it is very peculiar that someone can just give evidence , like Sir Hal Millar , and not be cross-examined on it at all . ’
6 My memory does n't er , is not all that clear on it .
7 Er now these are more important asked about so I think we should be very clear on it before er we reduce spending .
8 You 're gon na get some you 're gon na get some on it in a minute too if you do n't up .
9 I knew there was some on it .
10 A mechanical analogy is the Euler strut , where a beam is stable on either side of a centre line but unstable on it , passing from one side to the other discontinuously .
11 But even so , I mean I took a , like a two or three year old on it and I mean it is it 's a nightmare !
12 Indeed , a large part of a horse 's psychological wellbeing is dependent on it being part of a herd , or at least having the companionship of one or two others .
13 MGM is already in default on $600m of loans from Credit Lyonnais and is totally dependent on it for capital to finance its day-to-day operations .
14 ( 1 ) Official figures indicate that one in five of southern Italians and a quarter of Greeks and Portuguese work in agriculture , although the numbers significantly dependent on it for their livelihood must be considerably higher .
15 Yet , while such cuts are seen as preferable to the personal hardships of redundancy , less obvious cuts in the information system would also have personal repercussions — advice workers are entirely dependent on it for serving clients and would be unable to function as efficiently without it .
16 The problem , however , is that the appointment of a curator in a will is a nullity ; and the bequest of the income from the land ( it is not a usufruct , as the nurses think ) is dependent on it .
17 In tissue cultures insulin is an absolute requirement for the growth proliferation of normal mammary tissue and breast cancer cells are , at least initially , also dependent on it .
18 A woman , described by two Portlaoise psychiatrists , had not only taken to swigging Jeyes ' fluid she had also become dependent on it .
19 Many who belonged to the GLC traditions could see no reason to trust any institution of the local state , or to risk becoming dependent on it ; they argued that independent self-organization was the only way to effect changes in our lives .
20 Most people who lived on the south-western littoral consumed imported rice , while the plantation workers and those who provided services for the plantations were almost entirely dependent on it .
21 Ceauşescu was right : a few years later , the US Congress made freeing trade with the Soviet Union dependent on it permitting emigration , particularly of Soviet Jews .
22 These histories , their temporalities defined according to the specific concepts of particular domains , are not , however , independent of the whole : they are dependent on it , but in a structure derived from the ‘ differential relations between the different levels within the whole … the mode and degree of independence of each time and history is therefore necessarily determined by the mode and degree of dependence of each level within the set of articulations of the whole ’ ( 100 ) .
23 It took me about three months , perhaps longer , three to six months before I realised that I was dependent on it .
24 We had only known Sinar Surya as a lumpish extension of the land — as dependent on it as a baby is on its mother ; now she had come of age as she surged south to a thrilling new rhythm , new smells and new sensations .
25 So the ‘ planned village ’ emerged — designed to keep people within the realm of the estate but not necessarily dependent on it .
26 The loss of land , for a people fundamentally dependent on it both physically and spiritually , has caused an acute crisis of identity .
27 It is a disappointment that there are to be 600 redundancies , but there is a continuing significant level of employment in defence at Barrow which is dependent on it and which has been sustained by the Government 's commitment to a strong defence .
28 Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it .
29 Farmers become dependent on it for inputs and new techniques of cultivation and husbandry .
30 Hence the growth of state power meant the enslavement of individuals who became totally dependent on it for everything and who , as individuals , no longer possessed the personal responsibility for any but the most trivial and harmless of their actions :
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