Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 2 | It 's possible to go on volunteer holidays . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's illegal to park on the hard shoulder except in case of emergency . ’ |
| 4 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 6 | It 's nice to use on the move , because of the way it 's weighted ( DOS notebooks tend to tip away from you ) but slightly harder to use on the desktop because you have to adopt a Phantom Of The Opera keyboard technique to type properly . |
| 7 | So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know . |
| 8 | It 's sleety ooking on the window look ! |
| 9 | Yes , it 's easy to comment on their performance if you 've stood by and watched their shift . |
| 10 | It 's profitable let on a single-day basis . |
| 11 | It 's hard to concentrate on a book with all these people around . |
| 12 | In the 1990s it 's fashionable to concentrate on healing the inner self , to soothe away the stresses and rigours of modern life . |
| 13 | Do n't , I mean it 's silly knocking on strangers ' doors , it really is ridiculous knocking on strangers ' doors . |
| 14 | Hendry then experienced fear at first hand one night when he took his dog for it 's nightly walk on the beach near his apartment in South Queensferry . |
| 15 | … it 's important to insist on a Mason Pearson brush . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's difficult to go on that sort of holiday now we 've got Emily and we tend to stick to Europe , ’ says Mary Jane . |
| 17 | It 's difficult to get on his list . |
| 18 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 19 | But it 's horrid to dwell on these things where the central effort and basic attitude is so right minded . |
| 20 | But beyond that it 's fair to speculate on a shape closer to the Countach than the Testarossa , making use of juxtaposed flat planes for impact rather than subtly of line . |
| 21 | The problem is , as you access customer transactions and might want to raise an invoice , it 's intuitive to click on the INVOICE button in that section , thinking , not un-naturally , that it 's the right thing to do . |
| 22 | It is salutary to reflect on the fact that decisions taken and qualifications awarded now could affect the mobility of people well into the twenty first century . |
| 23 | In general , wherever the officer believes a case to be one which may come to his supervisor 's knowledge , it is appropriate to err on the side of caution , to ‘ go by the book ’ and protect himself from criticism . |
| 24 | For other purposes it is appropriate to concentrate on a specific sequential task and illustrate the order of events involving human actions ( e.g. Figs. 1 . |
| 25 | Whether it is successful depends on whether there exists an equilibrium of the particular voting process , and on whether the outcome is accepted . |
| 26 | Since the rise of semi-literate England as seen in the dissolution of so many libraries is something that only political action will be able to solve — in an age when , despite a decade of ‘ Thatcherism ’ and a supposed return to Victorian standards , the state is still all-powerful — it is suitable to end on a political note . |
| 27 | This is another good reason for not pre-planning the outcome of decisions in drama ; why it is good to work on the " back story " but not to plan the outcome . |
| 28 | In the case of the RUC it is essential to reflect on the problems that arose in the research . |
| 29 | Therefore , at some point in the instruction , it is essential to practise on a real system . |
| 30 | We believe it is essential to build on the political and technical progress that was made in the agreement that environmental sustainability should be the ultimate goal for all human societies , including ours in Wales . |