Example sentences of "it was on this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on this gang that the Road Vehicle body-maker apprentices began their training and , as all ex-apprentices will remember , for the assembly of a new wheel barrow from scratch , the piecework price was four-pence halfpenny ( 1 . |
| 2 | It was on this work that Josiah Wedgwood based his neoclassical pottery designs . |
| 3 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 4 | It was on this issue that his controversy with R. J. Campbell , then minister of the City Temple in London , centred ; many had accepted the views to which Forsyth had taken exception . |
| 5 | It was on this mission that Wilson , now flying his first as waist gunner , was on the receiving end of a flak fragment that pierced Mary Alice . |
| 6 | It was on this subject that Gould made his last recorded parliamentary speech in February 1728 . |
| 7 | February 20th , 1920 : It was on this date that Adolf Hitler gave up painting and became spokesman for the newly-formed Nazi Party . |
| 8 | It was on this date personnel involved learned that an unidentified aircraft carrier would be anchoring at Greenock where the Spitfires would be loaded on board . |
| 9 | It was on this occasion , as we have seen , that Gandhi for the first time resorted to fasting as a form of satyāgraha . |
| 10 | If Baldwin is to be trusted , this visit had serious consequences , for it was on this occasion that the abbess placed a monastic veil on Matilda 's head , and when Rufus saw the veil , he went away . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | It was on this occasion that I drew Eliot 's attention to the remarkable tribute to the English church contained in Thomas Hardy 's Preface to the volume Late Lyrics and Earlier . |
| 13 | It was on this board that he had saved so many lives at Waimea . |
| 14 | It was on this document rather than the Quebec Agreement that the British Government pinned its hopes of continuing post-war collaboration and for American help with its own atomic bomb programme . |
| 15 | It was on this visit that Dana did something I found surprising and at first puzzling . |
| 16 | The travellers proceeded to Augsburg , Leopold 's home town , and it was on this visit that Mozart met his cousin , Maria Anna Thekla Mozart , two years his junior . |
| 17 | It was on this basis that the defence were able to confound the evidence of the prosecution and gain Leonard Arthur his reprieve . |
| 18 | It was on this basis that he set about creating a new monastic life with all the force and organizational ability which he possessed . |
| 19 | It was on this basis that the social services committee in January overturned the finding of the complaints review panel that Hazell had a ‘ psychological need ’ to go to Milton Heights for three years . |
| 20 | It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference . |
| 21 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 22 | And it was on this point that the likes of Mr Graham and I had some of our most interesting debates . |
| 23 | And it was on this point that the discussions broke down , as Gorbachev was unwilling to allow any element in his package of proposals to be approved without agreement on all the others . |
| 24 | It was on this site that Trinity House was established in 1817 . |
| 25 | On the other side of the road , to Wycliffe 's left , the ground rose fairly steeply , and it was on this slope , covered with gorse and heather and strewn with huge boulders , that the Ballards had their home . |
| 26 | It was on this ground , among others , that she opposed the creation of a centralized Social Democratic party for the empire ( and so collided with Lenin and the Bolsheviks ) . |
| 27 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 28 | It was on this stretch of the M40 near Banbury that Philip Walker , who 's 46 , was seen driving his Ford Escort at speeds of up to 114 miles an hour . |
| 29 | I think it was on this morning yeah but it 's erm |
| 30 | I was saying this morning , in fact it was on This Morning , or Good Morning , or |