Example sentences of "[adv] it [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's on the house . ’ |
| 3 | Oh wait a minute perhaps it was on the A drive . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | so it 's on our tapes anyway |
| 6 | So it 's on the on the down side of the of the s of the signal . |
| 7 | Okay , so it 's on father 's friend 's , and council 's and on nothing else in that sentence . |
| 8 | So it 's on is it ? |
| 9 | So it 's on the up ? |
| 10 | So it 's on Regent Street . |
| 11 | But that and those had the brown set that , that and that , right so it 's on |
| 12 | So it was on Tuesday the twenty-third of April , 1968 , an occasion given a special fin de siècle luminosity by the knowledge that , for many of us , it was the last such event in our Oxford careers . |
| 13 | So it was on look for it later , so I traced it up and it was Mars . |
| 14 | So it was on that fog-bound , lonely London road . |
| 15 | This is n't because it 's set to , but normally it 's on cords which go up to there up to that pulley wheel round and there 's a big heavy weight inside which carries the window . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda . |
| 18 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 19 | Now it is on the market for £160,000 — less than the singer 's mortgage . |
| 20 | I say you know , we do talk to each other as police officers and talking to the lads who work the flats , from when they were busy to you know , now it 's on the you know , I think what , there 's about three hundred people is there ? |
| 21 | Gilder 's Haulage company has just spent £130,000 on this new lorry , but now it 's on the road to no-where . |
| 22 | Now it 's on the financial and administrative side that I suspect that the Home Office is concerned about and I believe they 've gone the wrong way about it . |
| 23 | Now it 's on the verge of close down . |
| 24 | Oh now it 's on the back of the house ? |
| 25 | Often it is on caring friends and neighbours that the responsibility of looking after such people falls . |
| 26 | Today it 's on display at the Gloucester museum . |
| 27 | Yeah well it 's on all the radio and T V and stuff is n't it ? |
| 28 | I keep saying I said to Dennis , well it 's on our property . |
| 29 | Well it 's on , it 's on a Thursday , yeah . |
| 30 | Well it 's on that |