Example sentences of "it is [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The perception of shape and pattern in apparently disorderly ( but dynamic and mobile ) things is usually mentioned with reference to visual perception , and it is commented on in the sciences and the arts alike : it is prominent , for example , in the notebooks of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ( J. Milroy , 1977 ) , in his careful descriptions of cloud formations , waterfalls and other dynamic phenomena , and much of the poet 's imagery depends on a kind of ‘ observer 's paradox ’ ( rather different from the familiar Labov version ) , through which a dynamic phenomenon can nonetheless appear to have stable shapes and patterns within it and , conversely , a static phenomenon may appear to contain mobility . |
| 2 | What period it is depends on its ‘ accounting reference period ’ as determined in accordance with section 223 , which in turn depends on its ‘ accounting reference date ’ as determined in accordance with sections 224 and 225 . |
| 3 | To clarify that we established yesterday that the new settlement will not necessarily be within the Greater York area , as it is defined on the plan on the board . |
| 4 | The research is concentrating on middle managers ( or , to use the more wide-ranging French term , cadres ) and it is drawing on a range of case study methods . |
| 5 | It is situated on Sorrento 's busy main street , half a mile from the town centre . |
| 6 | Moreover , the thought of having one 's own flat takes on a different vision when it is situated on a sink council estate . |
| 7 | It is situated on the Eastern outskirts of a large industrial city , with a fairly high level of children from different ethnic origins . |
| 8 | Built on the site of two earlier Romanesque cathedrals , it is situated on the crown of Wawel Hill ( p. 64 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The box , because it is situated on the seafront , takes a fair battering from the weather and special paints , developed for the North Sea oil industry , have to be used to paint the box every year . ’ |
| 10 | The environmental panic is heaven for the high priests of advertising whose function it is to capitalize on fears and desires . |
| 11 | It will be readily appreciated how important it is to agree on a name which reflects the separate identities ( and vanities ) of the firms involved without assuming Dickensian proportions and which at the same time commands the approval of any public relations consultant who has been engaged . |
| 12 | It sets up an ideal world of nature , which is nevertheless represented as attainable reality ( to use a formula of Schiller 's ) In other words , it is constructed on the false premise that man is archetypally good and naturally artistic ( witness the absurd convention of the eternally virtuous hero forever bursting effortlessly into song ) . |
| 13 | Here , in the gymnasia and exercise studios , they are now worrying not so much about the effects of heavy-duty exercise on their bodily contours , but with the havoc it is wreaking on their faces . |
| 14 | Sometimes it is stamped on the piece . |
| 15 | It is grown on the slopes of the Himalayas in Pakistan and has very thin grains and a surprising fragrance . |
| 16 | The government should be able to get quite a lot of the new indirect tax money it is counting on . |
| 17 | AGE Logic Inc 's Xoftware , is to support DEC Pathworks TCP/IP version 1.1 : running on Microsft Windows and MS-DOS it is implemented on Santa Cruz Operation 's Open Desktop and SunSoft 's Interactive Unix . |
| 18 | In the next few months , he should garner the fruits of his £100 million purchase of the Mirror group , when it is floated on the market for £500 million or more . |
| 19 | For sterling and the other major currencies the ‘ effective exchange rate ’ is a general measure of the exchange value of the domestic currency , and it is calculated on such a basis . |
| 20 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 21 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 22 | They snap at the insect and catch it in their mouths while it is resting on a flower . |
| 23 | Place your right hand behind your back so that it is resting on your left hip . |
| 24 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 25 | It is said on the river that a Thames barge , once she has risen with the tide , never sinks completely . |
| 26 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 27 | It is based on the theme of protestant liberty , which is consciously contrasted with catholic authoritarianism . |
| 28 | It is , however , easy to recognise that the choreography for The Three-Cornered Hat has greater authenticity because it is based on the folk and flamenco dance Massine had studied in Spain . |
| 29 | It is based on poems by a woman ( apparently her sister ) who became disabled by a viral disease . |
| 30 | That is , policing is experiential : it is based on the common sense that is built up from doing the job , and senior constables have some influence on the meaning which new recruits give this ‘ common sense ’ . |