Example sentences of "on [noun prp] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole thing is a lot tougher on Tod than it is on me . |
| 2 | THE Queen Mother will not be attending Princess Anne 's wedding to Commander Tim Laurence at Balmoral on Saturday because it is feared the 1,000-mile round trip would be too much for her . |
| 3 | The show is on Saturday and it 's Wednesday now . |
| 4 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 5 | Lotus Development Corp is declining to comment on a report in the US edition of the Wall Street Journal on Friday that it is in talks to add a database management system to its product line by buying privately-held Approach Software Corp . |
| 6 | it 's not as nice as the macros on WordPerfect but it 's adequate . |
| 7 | Acknowledge that today is Wednesday , but tell them that you bought it on Tuesday and it is bad and you want a replacement . |
| 8 | It is known that Dionysos was worshipped at Pylos shortly after the Minoan period on Crete and it is possible that his orgiastic cult was preceded by a Minoan proto-Dionysian cult . |
| 9 | Stresa is the largest of our three resorts on Maggiore and it is undoubtedly the most cosmopolitan and sophisticated . |
| 10 | I 'll have to get some more on Wednesday if it 's forty one . |
| 11 | Their neighbours are all on the dole and they all talk about food : " I 'll say to them you ca n't be starving on Wednesday because it 's not Friday — giro day , " says their next-door neighbour . |
| 12 | and if I did n't say it strong enough , as Angela 's done , it has given us a real basis to work on Don and it is appreciated . |
| 13 | The initial results of an independent study on Oxford and it 's traffic problems have been put on show in the City today . |
| 14 | ( 10 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars ( 11 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars and it 's possible that there is no life on Mars ( 12 ) It 's possible that there 's life on Mars , and in fact it is now certain that there is Now from this set of dilemmas the notion of implicature offers a way out , for it allows one to claim that natural language expressions do tend to have simple , stable and unitary senses ( in many cases anyway ) , but that this stable semantic core of en has an unstable , context-specific pragmatic overlay — namely a set of implicatures . |