Example sentences of "[verb] 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 | ‘ I expect it is on its way , ’ said the Thing calmly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well that 's what it says it is on the erm on the outside . |
| 5 | Place to hear it is on the highway . |
| 6 | Yeah I mean it is on a ferry anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ SCCS is great for working on individual files , but it has no concept of workstations or networks — it thinks it is on a single machine , ’ says SunPro technical specialist Hank Shiffman . |
| 8 | He has yet to receive his cheque but has received a letter from BR 's legal department to say it is on its way . |
| 9 | 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 . |