Example sentences of "[conj] it is on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The witness 's mere statement that his answer might have this effect is not sufficient , although it is on oath and even if there is no doubt concerning his bona fides . |
| 2 | Recorded in 21 days in a Mitcham garage , the fact that it is on Chrysalis is a mere coincidence . |
| 3 | It can thus check that it is on course . |
| 4 | Indeed , so marked was the Judaic orientation of the Celtic Church that it is on record as having been explicitly accused of Judaism , and its adherents of being Jews . |
| 5 | snow than it is on top . |
| 6 | Generally , the effect on triglyceride metabolism of excellent diabetic control is more profound than it is on cholesterol and LDL . |
| 7 | This notion is intriguing , and acknowledges the fact that carbon is actually more common in much of the rest of the Universe than it is on Earth . |
| 8 | However , the discussions of commentators like Townsend , Walker , and Phillipson focus primarily on twentieth-century developments , and it is on changes in the economic status of elderly people since 1900 that this chapter will concentrate . |
| 9 | This has been realized for a long time , and it is on record that John Dalton analysed the water supply for the firm of Sykes & Co. at Stockport and declared it suitable for the purpose . |
| 10 | And it is on mud that the albeit small revival of interest is focused . |
| 11 | If it is on paper allow to dry for at least 48 hours before carefully peeling off the paper and transferring the run-out to the cake . |
| 12 | Such material is not helpful if it is on sheets that have become dirty or faded ; shortages of text material are disadvantageous for all pupils , but especially so for pupils with poor vision . |
| 13 | I just wanted to say to you , firstly I declare an interest in OxRad , not pecuniary , of course , with money , however , but it is on behalf of charities , it is the only way they can generally raise some two three hundred pounds in a day , or sometimes a little more , that is a tremendous help to charities . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the fact that it is ludicrous to compare the persons of Baron Thyssen and of Mr Khalili as collectors , as also to compare the status of their collections ( Baron Thyssen is not proposing to buy and sell from his collection while it is on loan in Madrid ) , it is clear from the information we are publishing in this issue , that the rental of the Thyssen Collection was a luxury Britain could have ill afforded , and not a ‘ lost opportunity ’ . |
| 15 | The drawing number alone can tell one what size it is , where to find it , what product or process it describes , in how much detail , whether it is on micro-fiche , how many times it has been modified . |
| 16 | Of course , when you first get the program you have to type in all the data , the whereabouts of all your equipment , whether it is on loan to another company etc . |
| 17 | Yet progress comes to every backwater , especially when it is on television . |
| 18 | My head feels as though it is on fire . |
| 19 | Ralph Lauren 's trademark steed certainly is n't speaking the same language on a bootleg shirt here on a Brooklyn market stall as it is on Manhatten 's Upper East Side . |
| 20 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 21 | In fact his death made this unrealizable , although Engels 's book , The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , based as it is on Marx 's notes , was intended to be the one that Marx was unable to write . |
| 22 | Our comprehension , however , based as it is on observation , intuition , and guesswork is always only partial . |
| 23 | And that statement , given that such a book can never be complete nor , when based as it is on Burke 's volume , without error , is true . |