Example sentences of "it is on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 2 | After all the doubts and uncertainties , wrote Harsnet , most of which I did not admit to myself , or else tried to pretend were an integral part of the project , sense now that it is on its way . |
| 3 | It is on this splendid foundation that the Birmingham International Film and Television Festival is built enhancing the City of Birmingham as a media city . |
| 4 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 5 | ‘ New Eros ’ — carried as it is on an elaborately established sobbing and languorous rhythm , the word ‘ new ’ denies itself . |
| 6 | At its conference in Brighton , the Labour Party showed that it is on the way to becoming an electable party . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | BSB is also committed to spending as much on producing new programmes as it is on buying from the BBC archives . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | It is on these years that the government 's historical reputation will surely be based . |
| 11 | 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 ! ’ |
| 12 | In fact his death made this unrealizable , although Engels 's book , The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State , based as it is on Marx 's notes , was intended to be the one that Marx was unable to write . |
| 13 | My head feels as though it is on fire . |
| 14 | It is on Unter den Linden and — ’ |
| 15 | The very particularity of the sacrament forces upon the penitent the sense that it is on the here and now — that row we had with the neighbours , the bad temper with which we did the washing-up , this specific uncharitable thought or unchaste deed — that salvation and damnation depend . |
| 16 | It is on this point that the views of the SACP and some Soviet policymakers divide . |
| 17 | And it is on these grounds that the City will make up its mind about whether to give Dixons ' Stanley Kalms a chance or to pocket the £460million on offer from Woolworths ' Geoff Mulcahy . |
| 18 | Such an ambitious Tuscan confection surely deserves a cakestand , assembled as it is on a noble pedestal of rock , its buildings ( mixed plain and fancy ) composed of that porous tufa which looks much like sponge cake and which comes in all the golds , pinks , browns and mauves of the best Battenberg . |
| 19 | Needless to say , it is on this part of the budget that the debates are fiercest . |
| 20 | Once a country has reached a Brady-plan deal , it is on the road to financial respectability . |
| 21 | THE government of the United States wants to show it is on the side of the angels , but finds too few of them in Central America . |
| 22 | It can thus check that it is on course . |
| 23 | Modelled as it is on the a priori science of geometry , his ideal of a scientific natural philosophy is that of a textbook rationalist . |
| 24 | Before the arrival of the Packman , filling sprayers at Overy Farm was done in much the same way as it is on thousands of farms across the country . |
| 25 | What actually does happen , in most cases , is that either you do not lose the weight in the first place , or , if you do , it is on a difficult diet and when it finishes you get fat once again . |
| 26 | Whoever it is on the other side of this white wall , for instance , spends most of his waking hours wheezing and coughing and ( by the sound of it ) banging his swollen head against the partition . |
| 27 | It is on account of his age I restrain myself , ma'am . |
| 28 | One of just 16 such engines among London 's 114 stations , it is on call all over London . |
| 29 | It is on the market through Savills and Goldschmidt & Howland at £1.5 million . |
| 30 | It is on such black days that Woosnam 's public relations front is clouded by a red mist . |