Example sentences of "it be the [noun sg] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's the gristle on it , it 's that tinned meat , but that were |
| 2 | It 's the thing on your cupboards the thing 's the same yep |
| 3 | It 's the basis on which he develops his team . |
| 4 | And this is the basis on which the D O E have put in their figure , it 's the basis on which we have put in a figure for vacant dwellings , and also the H B F. |
| 5 | Well the policy is not Mrs. Thatcher 's policy , it 's the policy on which we are all agreed on and which Geoffrey Howe helped to main . |
| 6 | It is the day on which the sponsor entertains his major customers . |
| 7 | Yet it is the fantasy on which television ‘ soaps ’ depend . |
| 8 | It is the sea on which to surf at noon , |
| 9 | It is the institution on which the family is built , and in which the capacity for natural heterosexual intercourse is an essential element . |
| 10 | It is the point on which the academic community turns , and it is by their research performance that academics take on their professional identity and are judged by their peers . |
| 11 | It is the basis on which any discriminatory advertising directed at young people can be challenged under the terms of the voluntary agreements between the Government and the industry . |
| 12 | It is the ground on which the transformations are worked' ( Hall 1981 : 228 ) . |
| 13 | It was the weekend on which Katherine had arranged to fly to London to visit Portia . |
| 14 | I suppose it was the expression on his face that made me scream . ’ |
| 15 | It was the battleground on which conflicting aims and intentions struggled for space . |
| 16 | It was the foundation on which his whole image rested : the lack of pomposity , the charm , the casual clothes . |
| 17 | The Commander was fond of saying it was the sea on which the Spanish Armada had been defeated , the sea that Adolf Hitler had not dared to cross . |
| 18 | It was the bloke on her left , the one with the Brasso beam . |
| 19 | He remembered this because it was the day on which the BBC Home Service had announced the news that Her Majesty the Queen had given birth to what would become known as Prince Edward . |
| 20 | B. T. We had to make sure — it was the strictness on our part — that gangs were n't allowed to gather on the corner . |
| 21 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 22 | It was the cord on her neck , the killer 's hands there , his voice on the tape speaking her name out loud . |