Example sentences of "it is on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know how it is on ferries — you get a bit disoriented , you never know if you 're on A deck or B deck , or which bit of the outside you 're getting to when you go through a door — the front , the stern , or the sides . |
| 2 | Eurodisney , though , is already under construction , which Eurotunnel was not when it was floated , and as one stockbroking analyst commented : ‘ It is on budget , overground and only two-and-a-half year 's from completion . ’ |
| 3 | It is on schedule for completion in November 1994 . |
| 4 | The company produced 29,224 ounces of gold at an average grade of between 2.5 and 2.8 grammes per tonne , and says it is on course to mine 70,000 ounces during the whole of 1989 . |
| 5 | It can thus check that it is on course . |
| 6 | ‘ My routine in practice is just as it is on course . ’ |
| 7 | How quickly things change … so much is drunk now , it is on draught ! |
| 8 | The drawing number alone can tell one what size it is , where to find it , what product or process it describes , in how much detail , whether it is on micro-fiche , how many times it has been modified . |
| 9 | ‘ The witness 's mere statement that his answer might have this effect is not sufficient , although it is on oath and even if there is no doubt concerning his bona fides . |
| 10 | Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes . |
| 11 | Ralph Lauren 's trademark steed certainly is n't speaking the same language on a bootleg shirt here on a Brooklyn market stall as it is on Manhatten 's Upper East Side . |
| 12 | It is on Unter den Linden and — ’ |
| 13 | Recorded in 21 days in a Mitcham garage , the fact that it is on Chrysalis is a mere coincidence . |
| 14 | However , the discussions of commentators like Townsend , Walker , and Phillipson focus primarily on twentieth-century developments , and it is on changes in the economic status of elderly people since 1900 that this chapter will concentrate . |
| 15 | The pursuing army patrol the streets in jeeps with mounted machine guns , until one soldier flings his arm into the air , pointing : ‘ Look , ’ he shouts ‘ there it is on top of the Colosseum ! ’ |
| 16 | snow than it is on top . |
| 17 | One of just 16 such engines among London 's 114 stations , it is on call all over London . |
| 18 | ‘ It is on order . |
| 19 | Generally , the effect on triglyceride metabolism of excellent diabetic control is more profound than it is on cholesterol and LDL . |
| 20 | And what about that dance class Jackie , did you find out what time it is on Sunday ? |
| 21 | And that statement , given that such a book can never be complete nor , when based as it is on Burke 's volume , without error , is true . |
| 22 | Our comprehension , however , based as it is on observation , intuition , and guesswork is always only partial . |
| 23 | It is on account of his age I restrain myself , ma'am . |
| 24 | This notion is intriguing , and acknowledges the fact that carbon is actually more common in much of the rest of the Universe than it is on Earth . |
| 25 | Quite apart from the fact that it is ludicrous to compare the persons of Baron Thyssen and of Mr Khalili as collectors , as also to compare the status of their collections ( Baron Thyssen is not proposing to buy and sell from his collection while it is on loan in Madrid ) , it is clear from the information we are publishing in this issue , that the rental of the Thyssen Collection was a luxury Britain could have ill afforded , and not a ‘ lost opportunity ’ . |
| 26 | Of course , when you first get the program you have to type in all the data , the whereabouts of all your equipment , whether it is on loan to another company etc . |
| 27 | I never remember what day it is on nights . ’ |
| 28 | And it is on mud that the albeit small revival of interest is focused . |
| 29 | It is on Baulk that observers pin responsibility for a dilution of the original AMV brand values . |
| 30 | It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid . |