Example sentences of "it is on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often it is on caring friends and neighbours that the responsibility of looking after such people falls . |
| 2 | Edwards noted in 1977 that ‘ reorganisation in Scotland , based as it is on small authorities , is unlikely to do much to stimulate development ’ . |
| 3 | However , it is on marital breakdown that the crucial implications of this situation are particularly illuminated . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is on one level a time of transition between one set of viewpoints , and the gradual emergence of another , if you like , the conscious pantisocracy and the unconscious ‘ shapes and thoughts ’ , but it is a moment at which the two not only meet , as the river Alph becomes a fountain , but merge and seem not only to contradict but support one another . |
| 6 | Because it is on that occasion that you will already have , and will on your final visit , have made up your mind as to the nature of the northern part of the village of Skelton , the nature of the land immediately surrounding it , whether it be a paddock , or a small field , whether it be more associated in the minds of some with the open country , or in the minds of others with the village . |
| 7 | Even a cursory glance at the operating economy of the early eighteenth century suggests that the supply and efficiency of transport services were the most widespread and basic limitations on its growth , for it is on that sector that both the supply of raw materials and the size of the market depend . |
| 8 | I ca n't remember what I ca n't remember what they charge , it is on that bill what they charge for a Saturday . |
| 9 | It is on that bill and I think it 's something like thirty pounds . |
| 10 | The police discretion and powers under the legislation already referred to will , as usual , bring industrial protesters and pickets into a relationship with the police and it is on that relationship that the quality of freedom to protest and its scope will be worked out . |
| 11 | I am glad we have that partnership with all of you here and it is on that note , on behalf of the government , that I wish you every possible success as you embark upon your seventy fifth year . |
| 12 | Yet it is on that flood and the damage to swimming pools and jacuzzis caused by it that the NRA relies so heavily to demonstrate the existence of a so-called Maidenhead factor . |
| 13 | It is a crucial part of their economic regeneration , and it is on that basis that other services can follow . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , I believe that the CA approach can get us further with the study of code switching than other approaches tried so far , and it is on that basis that I have chosen to use it in this book . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is on such occasions that the discretion can be exercised legitimately , that a sense of autonomy and real authority can be experienced . |
| 17 | However , where they are not , the valuation becomes more subjective ; it is on such valuations that this chapter concentrates . |
| 18 | An organiser of any such assembly must ensure that , if it is on private property , he has the consent of the owner . |
| 19 | Lyte — whose bicentenary it is on 1st June , this year — was also a fanatical bookman . |
| 20 | It is on permanent deposit at the museum under an agreement with the Court of Common Pleas , which essentially oversees its well-being . |
| 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 | Mr Barry Jones donated the vehicle body to the Brynteg Railway Preservation Group in May , and it is now located at Llwyfan Cerrig station where it is on public view . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is on this level that members of different disciplinary cultures can recognize each other as engaging in a common activity , if at all . |
| 26 | It is on this trip to Moscow that Anna meets Vronsky for the first time . |
| 27 | The earliest aryballoi have abstract linear decoration , but it is on this shape , linked to the eastern trade , that the first oriental motives appear in Greek vase-decoration , perhaps not long after the middle of the eighth century . |
| 28 | Needless to say , it is on this part of the budget that the debates are fiercest . |
| 29 | It is on this building , and on his long-demolished Eaton Hall , Cheshire ( 1675–82 ) , built for Sir Thomas Grosvenor [ q.v. ] , that any assessment of his work must rest . |
| 30 | It is on this principle that the school curriculum should be founded ; and this means that no one should leave school without some evidence of achievement in both the practical and the theoretical . |