Example sentences of "that it [be] on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 that it 's on changing schools , hope and fears
2 ‘ What you seem to forget is that it 's on sixteen years since you left this house .
3 ‘ without going into further detail I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract .
4 I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract .
5 The reason why the latter seem more likely is that it is on these major industries that much of the future competition among states for wealth-creating resources will be focused .
6 One could argue that it is on this account that the restorer applies his efforts to the material element of the work .
7 They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them .
8 But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years .
9 Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ .
10 Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose .
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