Example sentences of "it [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 2 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
| 3 | It bounced on initial impact and came to rest inverted . |
| 4 | This could be demonstrated explicitly or via an audit report which was exception-based , i.e. it reported on any instances where the law was contravened . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch . |
| 6 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 7 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 8 | Moreover , under 1020 the death of Archbishop Lyfing is given first , although it occurred on 12 June , after Cnut 's return to England and the Easter meeting at Cirencester . |
| 9 | In prosecutions for many other crimes , for instance assault , testimony varied more because it built on actual incidents . |
| 10 | At 1988/89 rates ( Home Office , 1990b , p. 110 ) , it cost on average £288 per week to keep an offender in custody , compared with £19 per week to supervise an offender on probation ; yet the Home Office acknowledge : ‘ It is hard to show any effect that one type of sentence is more likely than any other to reduce the likelihood of reoffending , which is high for all ’ ( p. 7 ) . |
| 11 | If the creditor knew that the surety , whilst understanding the nature of the liability he or she was accepting , was in fact acting under the influence of the debtor , then it would not be safe for the creditor to rely upon a document executed in these circumstances , unless it believed on reasonable grounds that the surety had in fact received independent advice . |
| 12 | The Wilson Committee itself summarised the evidence it received on this issue as follows : |
| 13 | The last time Hambros was so well placed was in 1986 when it advised on another mega-bid , by Hanson for Imperial Group . |
| 14 | He knew he was dying and retained his dignity to the end ; it came on 13 March 1967 , and the cricketing world , quite simply , was devastated . |
| 15 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 16 | It came on 14 July , a day on which the French Ambassador had asked for an audience with King William , who was taking the waters at the spa town of Ems , and had been twice refused , courteously but firmly . |
| 17 | , I thought it came on seven disks not six . |
| 18 | It came on 28 October , and Il Duce took an overnight train to Rome to accept the king 's offer on the following day . |
| 19 | It seemed on this occasion she had met her match . |
| 20 | It happened on other occasions , but not on this one . |
| 21 | A further echo of the Koln Ju88 strike reverberated the following evening when most of the crew were out in Cambridge celebrating survival and , as it happened on these occasions , most crews had their own favourite watering places . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 23 | Some hot spots can be very localized : for example , in Konstanz , where it rained on 30 April , ground-level radiation was 15 times greater than nearby Stuttgart , which received no rain . |
| 24 | It rested on common assumptions , common beliefs , common forms of action . |
| 25 | When it opened on 1 September 1864 an extra junction was provided from the main line at Dalry to what became known as Coltbridge junction . |
| 26 | Called the Brasserie , it opened on 1 January 1984 . |
| 27 | It was big but it was n't tall because it walked on four feet . |
| 28 | The Forest law was universally hated because of the penalties and restrictions it imposed on all classes of the king 's subjects . |
| 29 | Its sluggish habit was not a hindrance , though , for it could kill with a mere glance or whiff of its breath , as it fed on poisonous herbs whose odour was fatal to man . |
| 30 | But erm it landed on deaf ears . |