Example sentences of "it [be] [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can it be spread on frozen ground . |
| 2 | How can it be discharged on adequate funding ? |
| 3 | To this must be added the cost of accommodation in the future , it being accepted on all sides that the plaintiff 's present home , though much loved by her , is not suitable in any long term assessment . |
| 4 | It 's played on smaller courts using light plastic rackets and foam balls , so very young children can join in . |
| 5 | threatens to ruin the day , that it 's squandered on this . |
| 6 | NT will not be fractured into a bunch of different versions simply because it 's run on different microprocessors . |
| 7 | NT will not be fractured into a bunch of different versions simply because it 's run on different MPUs . |
| 8 | It 's grown on huge farms called plantations , and it has to be planted , as the name suggests , cultivated and harvested , before it can be packed into great ships and sent to us . |
| 9 | It is said to be easy to upgrade and service because it 's based on standard uniprocessor 50MHz 80486 EISA bus hardware . |
| 10 | It is said to be easy to upgrade and service because it 's based on standard uniprocessor 50MHz 80486 EISA bus hardware . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , no , my dear Shiona , it 's based on much more than that . ’ |
| 12 | This is supposed to be the strongest set of women to have turned up in rock for ages , but it 's not healthy if it 's based on f—ed -up women . ’ |
| 13 | Joyriding still happens here , but nothing like on the scale of last year , it 's concentrated on other estates . |
| 14 | It 's worked on several occasions since , though never again in ‘ God 's ’ voice . |
| 15 | For sterling and the other major currencies the ‘ effective exchange rate ’ is a general measure of the exchange value of the domestic currency , and it is calculated on such a basis . |
| 16 | Nor can generalised criticism be justified if it is based on one isolated incident . |
| 17 | If it is based on average capital costs , it favours short-term projects and those with large initial cash receipts against long-term projects . |
| 18 | It is based on personal computer architecture , and can be directly attached to the local network in a client-server architecture . |
| 19 | Apart from being well written and a pleasure to read the overall feeling of this book is that the Author has a great deal of enthusiasm and knowledge about his subject , and it is based on personal experience . |
| 20 | They say the survey is inaccurate because it is based on incorrect figures that the Prime Minister gave to parliament this year . |
| 21 | It is based on real people , genuine exhibits and historical facts . |
| 22 | We should also note that it is based on certain assumptions , for example it is assumed that those who have some reason to form a pressure group will , in an open society , do so , and that the degree of governmental response will depend on the degree of pressure the group is able to exert , and that this is directly related to the group 's importance to the community . |
| 23 | Much of this belief is soundly based in experience but part of it is based on wishful thinking . |
| 24 | It is based on small firms . |
| 25 | Again , the theory of this is straightforward ; it is based on standard probability theory , such as is widely used in other disciplines , notably in the biological sciences , where the sampling of a population is an accepted way of establishing the variety of species in a given area . |
| 26 | Like all good innovations , it is based on pure simplicity and offers the opportunity to cook in an oven chamber using pressureless steam , dry heat or a combination of the two . |
| 27 | THERE have been a number of articles and letters published recently about North-East drift-net fishery for salmon , which suggest that the Government 's proposal to phase out this fishery is unreasonable and that it is based on political expediency under pressure from owners of rod fisheries . |
| 28 | However , if the old test is obviously defective — for example , if it is based on out-of-date linguistic theories and thus lacks construct validity — this measure of concurrent validity will not be very meaningful . |
| 29 | Firstly , it is based on lemmatised ( root ) forms rather than inflections . |
| 30 | In addition , it is based on historical data and , in any case , influences only their target allocation and not their actual allocation . |