Example sentences of "on [pron] it is [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An essential ingredient is a capacity to rely trustingly on others when occasion demands , and to know on whom it is appropriate to rely . |
| 2 | Does the Prime Minister agree that although there is scope for compromise on many matters at Maastricht , the one issue on which it is impossible to compromise is the difference between those who believe that Britain could and should join in a single currency and those who believe that we should not do so at any price and that we should never even have joined the exchange rate mechanism ? |
| 3 | Achieving this kind of position within the group requires , in addition to being tall , a full knowledge of the entire repertoire of chants and of the occasions on which it is appropriate to use them . |
| 4 | But , as Neal has noted ( 1981 , no.87 ) , these are very simple patterns on which it is difficult to base any conclusions regarding authorship . |
| 5 | However , the limited extent of this research , combined with the different questions explored by different methods , leave a substantial number of issues on which it is difficult to make definitive statements . |
| 6 | In Lothian , we are concentrating very much on what it is essential to have achieved by 1 April 1993 . |
| 7 | Allan argues that the very nature of friendship is one of equality and reciprocity and that this will impose limits on what it is acceptable to give or to receive . |