Example sentences of "it [be] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious that Austria-Hungary would not allow the Russians to invade Bulgaria ; a year before she had disliked the possibility of a united and strengthened Bulgaria , even if it were on bad terms with Russia , and the prospect of one under Russia 's thumb was even worse . |
| 2 | that it 's on changing schools , hope and fears |
| 3 | and it 's on minimum premiums , you 've got a little bit of a discount there , but again , bearing in mind nine pound sixty might not buy them the cover they want . |
| 4 | So whi what I 'm trying to say to you is that you should have four sides of written text , whether it 's on two pages , three or four What I will do is go through the headings and give you a very brief description of that so that you know roughly what 's in them . |
| 5 | Do you want to borrow , well it 's on two tapes , well I 've still got it on the tapes if you want it , it 's quite a good quite a good film |
| 6 | It 's on two tapes . |
| 7 | ‘ What you seem to forget is that it 's on sixteen years since you left this house . |
| 8 | Tell them it 's on compassionate grounds , and you 'll get away with it all right . |
| 9 | It 's on ten minutes . |
| 10 | Which means it 's on three disks . |
| 11 | Mm , it 's , it 's , it 's on this mornings news |
| 12 | ‘ It 's on more walls in more houses than any other picture in the country , ’ Trevor said mildly . |
| 13 | It 's there , what it is it 's on these pages |
| 14 | It 's on these figures which in effect any Committee reductions will be made . |
| 15 | Often it is on caring friends and neighbours that the responsibility of looking after such people falls . |
| 16 | Edwards noted in 1977 that ‘ reorganisation in Scotland , based as it is on small authorities , is unlikely to do much to stimulate development ’ . |
| 17 | Of the latter , the Cirl Bunting does not appear to have taken advantage of the increasing scrub , possibly because much of it is on north-facing slopes , and it has now declined in numbers . |
| 18 | It is on such schemes that they intend to bring regional levels of unemployment back down to at least the June 1990 low point of 107,000 and lower . |
| 19 | It is on such occasions that the discretion can be exercised legitimately , that a sense of autonomy and real authority can be experienced . |
| 20 | However , where they are not , the valuation becomes more subjective ; it is on such valuations that this chapter concentrates . |
| 21 | Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true . |
| 22 | The claim that on this basis the Greek fossils fit better with Australopithecus afarensis is certainly correct , but based as it is on primitive characters this conclusion has no phylogenetic significance . |
| 23 | Like all analogies , this one can mislead as well as help , but if we do feel that a reasonable case is being presented to us , and that the internal evidence of the research fits together coherently and comes to a result which is ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ then we may be prepared to accept this piece of research , based though it is on informal interviews . |
| 24 | It is on three Tuesdays from June 30 at John Haswell House , Gladstone Street , Gateshead , or on Saturday , June 20 , at St Mary 's Centre , Middlesbrough . |
| 25 | In this paper it is on these dimensions as they can exist between sets of managers and workers ( as systems ) that I focus . |
| 26 | And it is on these grounds that the City will make up its mind about whether to give Dixons ' Stanley Kalms a chance or to pocket the £460million on offer from Woolworths ' Geoff Mulcahy . |
| 27 | It is on these grounds that we could discount the ‘ rare exceptions ’ referred to by Nossal ( 1975 : 46 , above ) , since the superfluous testing which he condemns has a far greater probability of continuing to be of little benefit to mankind , even in the advancement of knowledge , than the work of Gray , Gallistel , or the early objectives of Blakemore . |
| 28 | And it is on these individuals and those who train them that responsibility for the identification of such qualities and the development of such competences is placed . |
| 29 | It is on these years that the government 's historical reputation will surely be based . |
| 30 | It is on these points in particular that the left perspective on party politics advances a critique against the " reality " of responsible party government in Britain . |