Example sentences of "it is on " in BNC.

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61 It is on this point that participant observation in practice very often does not match up to the ideal form and some consideration should be given to the situation arising .
62 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 .
63 It is on its way out , but it has not gone for good — yet .
64 It is here that Scaevola appeals to the trust clause ; and it is on the basis of it that he allows their entitlement to stand .
65 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 .
66 It is on these final percepts that judgements and consequent action are based .
67 Often it is on caring friends and neighbours that the responsibility of looking after such people falls .
68 At one side of the galaxy the gas is travelling at 700 km per second faster than it is on the other side .
69 And it is on mud that the albeit small revival of interest is focused .
70 The earliest depiction of it is on a sixth century B. C. black-figure amphora ( above ) from Greece .
71 This time it is on an elaborate mosaic , where an owl is shown sitting in the middle of a ring of attacking animals .
72 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 .
73 It is on the capacity of an institution or of a society in its political traditions and mechanisms to successfully manage protest that so much depends .
74 It is on Baulk that observers pin responsibility for a dilution of the original AMV brand values .
75 By rail it is on the London ( Euston ) to Glasgow line , with an hourly service to London and Birmingham .
76 Edwards noted in 1977 that ‘ reorganisation in Scotland , based as it is on small authorities , is unlikely to do much to stimulate development ’ .
77 What is more it is on a Public Transport Category C of A and operating under an AOC , will be available this summer for advanced seaplane instruction , charter and pleasure flying , scenic tours and corporate days-out .
78 Place to hear it is on the highway .
79 It is on this theme that the Tate Gallery Liverpool has put together a long-term display .
80 Now imagine we lift a marble above the table ( Fig. 1b ) we can call the raised-up position state A and table level , state B. Here , the object is only stable when it is on the table .
81 Snaith was on the eastern fringe of the West Riding of Yorkshire but since the 1974 boundary reorganisation , it is on the western fringe of Britain 's newest county , North Humberside .
82 It is on a much smaller scale than those held just after the Second World War when animals and livestock were included and a show ring was erected for the horse and pony events .
83 So it is on the basis of us all ( EVEN I ! ) being human and fallible that I have to announce that it is scientifically almost impossible not to shed surplus body fat when calorie intake is strictly limited to 1,000 a day .
84 It is difficult to accept Gandhi 's argument , based as it is on an evolutionary view of history , that mankind is continually moving in the direction of an utopia where ahi sā will prevail .
85 ‘ I once went to Japan to advise on a course , ’ he continued , ‘ and they wanted this bunker reproduced exactly as it is on the Old Course . ’
86 It 's much harder on them than it is on you . )
87 And if Aherne has a criticism it is on the standards of school and club coaching .
88 After all , it is on the track that speed is developed — and you must have that speed to win races .
89 Yet progress comes to every backwater , especially when it is on television .
90 But latest figures show that after a two-month slide , it is on the way up again .
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