Example sentences of "[verb] that it is on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ without going into further detail I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract . |
| 2 | I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract . |
| 3 | * The animal rights group , Lynx , has reported that it is on the verge of financial collapse because of the costs of defending a long-running libel action by a fur farm and a decline in contributions due to the recession in Britain . |
| 4 | It can be argued that it is on the strength of these supposed qualities of writing , as identified by Hildyard , Olson and other exponents of the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy , that Lyons rests some at least of his more general claims for ‘ differences among languages ’ . |
| 5 | At its conference in Brighton , the Labour Party showed that it is on the way to becoming an electable party . |
| 6 | Still , taking it for what it is , I can report that it is on the whole satisfactorily performed , due mainly to the merits of the soloists : Barbara Schlick 's soprano rings out finely in the wonderful air with cello , ‘ What passion can not Music raise or quell ’ ( I give titles in the familiar English rather than the German used here , of course ) , and again in her paean of the organ , though in the final chorus the sense and the noble simplicity of the solo soprano in turn with the choir , a real piece of English eccentricity , somehow becomes merely odd in German . |
| 7 | It is also important to recognise that it is on the basis of these statistics that important decisions are made by governments in relation to their policies towards crime and its treatment . |
| 8 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 9 | It can thus check that it is on course . |
| 10 | One could argue that it is on this account that the restorer applies his efforts to the material element of the work . |
| 11 | ensuring that it is on the agenda of various organizational meetings and is discussed systematically and in depth . |
| 12 | It is important to note that it is on the basis of the self-evident cultural value of these texts that Bateson develops his sense of the wider relationship between culture and democracy . |
| 13 | Another is that of a broker/dealer department advising customer A to purchase shares in company B when the corporate finance department is acting for B and knows that it is on the verge of insolvency . |
| 14 | Returning to the example given earlier of the broker/dealer department advising customer A to purchase shares in company B when the corporate finance department is advising B and knows that it is on the verge of insolvency , the question arises as to what the firm must divulge to A in order to modify its duty of undivided loyalty to A to the extent necessary to permit it to withhold the information about B. |