Example sentences of "[noun sg] turns on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a plot of sorts involves the intrigues of the Egyptian Queen , whose enfeebled brother and consort has no power to break her obsessive love for ‘ the Wanderer ’ , the story turns on the simple fact that Odysseus must for ever love an unattainable ideal . |
| 2 | DIRECTOR Roman Polanski turns on the shock treatment in the passionate but quite perverse BITTER MOON ( Cert 18 ; West End ) . |
| 3 | Not the other respectable brigade , and indeed in Eden End , the whole play turns on the jealousy of the sister , who remained at home . |
| 4 | One part turns on the other and sees it as worthless , leading to the self-reproaches and relentless self-criticism of melancholics . |
| 5 | Foreign investment turns on the attitude of international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank and on a major creditor , the Japanese . |
| 6 | Thus a great deal turns on the exact terms of the contract — whether it stipulates ‘ 200 tons of potatoes to be grown on Blackacre ’ or simply ‘ 200 tons of potatoes . ’ |
| 7 | Since the question turns on the meaning of the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , the problem is therefore one of statutory interpretation and it will be helpful to start by setting out the immediately relevant provisions of the Act : |
| 8 | The certainty of place turns on the lights |
| 9 | The difference turns on the fact that his view is empiricist , whereas theirs very definitely is not . |
| 10 | Success turns on the ability of candidates , first , to attract financial contributions as tokens of personal support ; second , to construct an effective personal organization ; and , third , to establish a good personal relationship with the voters . |
| 11 | At the gates , frustration turns on the police , once again called on to enforce an industrial relations strategy . |
| 12 | The outlook for Ocean turns on the United States . |
| 13 | The decision on this paragraph turns on the proper construction of the crucial words ‘ in matters relating to a contract , ’ it not being disputed that the place of performance of the obligation in question ( if it exists ) was England . |
| 14 | In the economics of oligopolistic markets the distinction between ‘ explicit ’ and ‘ tacit ’ collusion turns on the first of these elements . |
| 15 | Another major problem turns on the assumptions relating to competitiveness . |
| 16 | Everything in this problem turns on the unobtrusive sentence : ‘ A day elapsed … . ’ |
| 17 | She loved her third husband like the bird takes to the wing and the sea turns on the tide . |
| 18 | And now , the film turns on the two escapists and finally delivers its punishment . |
| 19 | A second consideration against allowing consent to political authority general validity turns on the undesirability of allowing the validity of consent which binds for life , is open-ended , and affects wide-ranging aspects of a person 's life . |
| 20 | This appeal turns on the meaning in that subsection of the word ‘ appropriates ’ and will involve the consideration , among other things , of conflicting statements in this House , which I shall come back to at a later stage . |