Example sentences of "it be [vb pp] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That strange feeling he had experienced in the hall : had it been repeated on the landing ? |
| 2 | The designation must not be misleading , nor must it be based on an area of practice in which a claim to specialisation or particular expertise would be improper ( see paragraph 2(b) above ) . |
| 3 | They had realised , as William Pitt had done , that minimum wage legislation , even if it were based on a family with three children , was not enough to meet the need of all families . |
| 4 | It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint . |
| 6 | You do n't lose the use of your PC 's printer port because it 's duplicated on the back of the tape unit , though obviously you ca n't use both printer and tape at the same time . |
| 7 | It 's balanced on a knife edge . |
| 8 | ‘ As it 's featured on the château label , the legend could be used to attract visitors , and sell more wine . ’ |
| 9 | It 's based on a kind of cowardice , a lack of reliance on your own judgement if it suceeded before it 'll succeed again , it 's just a money making machine and shows no literary thought by the publishers . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's based on a country tune , you know the one . ’ |
| 11 | It 's based on a lot of African tribal rhythms , but played on urban ‘ found ’ percussion — bits of old metal , anything . |
| 12 | It 's based on the technology that was developed to help astronauts cope with weightlessness . |
| 13 | It 's based on the use of essential oils , found in minute traces in plants , which have a powerful aroma that can boost your mental well-being as well as treating physical ailments . |
| 14 | It 's based on an allowance of 1200cals a day , which should produce a good , steady rate of weight loss for most moderately overweight women ( men should allow an extra 300cals a day ) . |
| 15 | " Unless it 's bolted on the inside we ought to be able to get in with these , " he said . |
| 16 | It 's built on the edge of the river . |
| 17 | The the problem we had is because if in December , when we put the Christmas lights up for example , to use that as prime example , we put one erm harness I think it 's called on the tree , it was absolutely pathetic . |
| 18 | This is Michael Wayland , who appears on television a lot , and who as a consequence can never remember anything unless it 's written on the Autocue , or held up beside the lens in front of him . |
| 19 | It 's reflected on a mirror so at home it appears as though she has learnt the information off-by-heart . |
| 20 | As with the Teardrop , the body is solid alder , although this time it 's contoured on the back . |
| 21 | Bill and I sat outside , in the sun , and wetted our respected throttles , he with water , I with a pint of Theakstons Bitter — well , it 's wasted on a dog . |
| 22 | Only I said it 's an open invitation when it 's left on the doorstep you see . |
| 23 | Trippy constantly sniffed , a bad case of druggie pneumonia as it 's known on the street . |
| 24 | If the comb is n't level , it may be because you did n't put it in symmetrically , or that the weights are n't positioned symmetrically , or it 's caught on the ribber , or you tied the end of the yarn to the clamp when you started . |
| 25 | It might look good to turn up with such a grand vin , but if it 's opened on the night , even Mouton this young would be unpalatable , a horrid waste of money . |
| 26 | To clarify that we established yesterday that the new settlement will not necessarily be within the Greater York area , as it is defined on the plan on the board . |
| 27 | Moreover , the thought of having one 's own flat takes on a different vision when it is situated on a sink council estate . |
| 28 | Built on the site of two earlier Romanesque cathedrals , it is situated on the crown of Wawel Hill ( p. 64 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The box , because it is situated on the seafront , takes a fair battering from the weather and special paints , developed for the North Sea oil industry , have to be used to paint the box every year . ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes it is stamped on the piece . |