Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bel-Shamharoth was especially attracted to dabblers in magic who , by being as it were beachcombers on the shores of the unnatural , were already half-enmeshed in his nets . |
| 2 | Irene Daniels , who 's the programme 's researcher says ‘ if you have a clip that makes you and your family laugh , then it 's odds on it 'll make other people laugh too ’ . |
| 3 | All group one policies , so it 's benefits on pensions plus all the erm qualifying policies |
| 4 | ‘ The figures must be put into context — it 's £6.8m on information out of a total education budget of £9.5 billion . |
| 5 | As a Cheltenham magistrate Cranog Jones has sat in judgement of many but tonight he 's waiting for a jury to delever it 's verdict on him . |
| 6 | Most of the time I find it 's regret on the part of the victim . |
| 7 | in the steriliser please he 's ooh it 's turn on tap right it 's your medicine |
| 8 | But it will take years , not months , to catch up on decades of neglect , brought about by a regime which year after year spent it 's money on barbed wire and secret police . |
| 9 | Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe . |
| 10 | Er so so it 's Jane on Friday er er and Karen on Saturday . |
| 11 | Consider the question , ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ |
| 12 | Knowing the fact-presupposing explanation of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ we can see through the question , ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ |
| 13 | If someone who said this was asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say , ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 14 | We are not tempted to give an experiential explanation of the meaning of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , or beguiled by answers to the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ question like ‘ We mean the same by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ as we mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 15 | I also said that if someone were asked , ‘ But what do you mean by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ he might say ‘ I mean just the same as I mean by ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Earth' . |
| 16 | It 's survival on the one hand against moral issues on the other hand . |
| 17 | I think it 's difficult to actually find that it 's attendance on the sub-group . |
| 18 | ESSAY 7 — ; Did Tsarism show any real signs of re-establishing it 's grip on Russia in the period after 1905 . |
| 19 | ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod . |
| 20 | Sun , sand , and sex , it 's Britain on holiday |
| 21 | They can simulate the flashing effects of video game and TV screens and measure it 's effects on the brain . |
| 22 | , oh terrible it 's excitement on marriage is n't it ? |
| 23 | ‘ If it 's Love on the Dole , I 've seen it , but thanks all the same . ’ |
| 24 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 25 | It 's dawn on base in Vitez , Central Bosnia , and Corporal Helen Staples , already tired after a gruelling convoy drive through treacherous weather conditions , along with the risk of shell fire and snipers bullets , does n't have to go far to wake up her team . |
| 26 | If it is n't helicopters , it 's cars on the way to the Silberner Hirsch below , or machines roaring in distant valleys . |
| 27 | It 's Y on the end . |
| 28 | which it ca n't be right cos , I suppose in a way it 's none of our business but it is I mean if it gets to it , it puts our company in financial difficulties it means it 's jobs on the line int it that sort of thing |
| 29 | It 's skip on that John it 's not ignore . |
| 30 | But make no mistake , England need to produce a top-drawer performance tomorrow or it 's egg on the face time . |