Example sentences of "that it was on " in BNC.
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| 1 | MB GROUP , the old Metal Box company , refused to confirm yesterday that it was on the verge of a £300m-plus bid for Caradon , the building products group . |
| 2 | It has emerged that the council had been compelled to discuss the future of Kent Opera at its two-day meeting at Leeds Castle in November because the company had explained that it was on the verge of closure and insolvency . |
| 3 | Then in 1987 Midland Bank got itself in such a mess that it was on the receiving end of a laughable offer from the Saatchi & Saatchi advertising empire . |
| 4 | He pulled the drawer right out so that it was on his knee . |
| 5 | ERC noted that it was on target with its 1991 budget . |
| 6 | Since there are other reasons to believe that Scaevola did not himself publish his collections of opinions , it seems best to suppose that it was on later publication that difficulties arose . |
| 7 | In the 1960s , the Clydesdale almost disappeared without trace , so much so that it was on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust 's list of protected animals . |
| 8 | He recalled that it was on tour in South Africa that they were christened the Pumas . |
| 9 | But there can be no real doubt that it was on medical advice that Law resigned , for he was advised that only a complete break would save him from total breakdown , and he was actually suffering from the disease that was to kill him in less than three years . |
| 10 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 11 | Alexei thought that it was on the whole foolish to remain where he was while there was an armed trooper to guard the two women . |
| 12 | Talking to Andre Malraux years later , Picasso went so far as to say that it was on this occasion that he all of a sudden received the revelation of why he was a painter at all and that ‘ I realized what painting was all about ’ . |
| 13 | Despite official denials the FMLN blamed the shooting on the paramilitary police , and had responded by announcing on May 19 that it was on " a state of alert " and was withdrawing from Copaz , the body set up in March to oversee the implementation of the detailed peace treaty signed by the FMLN and the government in January [ see p. 38716 ] . |
| 14 | ‘ Good , ’ he commented , and , making her heart leap with pleasure , ‘ I have to drive to Karlovy Vary this morning , and wondered , since you 've stated that it was on your itinerary , if you 'd like to come with me ? ’ |
| 15 | By 1984 , Fibres had moved through the period of mere survival to realize that it was on a winning track and could expand , guided by some astute marketing of some of the exciting new products then coming through . |
| 16 | And no one dare admit that it was on floor cos she 'd think they 'd put it there . |
| 17 | As he describes himself he had been , during the nineties at Cambridge and afterwards , a rather worldly , flippant creature , erm but after this experience something changed within him , and he says , and I suppose , I think we must believe that it is true , that it was on account of this sort of moral mystical experience that his whole attitude to the world was changed , and he was provided with the peculiar moral strength to fight the battles , as he later did fight , against war and other such things . |