Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pron] it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needs a heart of stone not to sympathise with a figure in this predicament — a figure on whom it may rest finally to decide whether South Africa lives in peace or at war . |
| 2 | When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient . |
| 3 | But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment . |
| 4 | This amphibian is not totally aquatic , as some fishkeepers have been led to believe and it requires a large , dry area on which it can climb to feed and preferably burrow . |
| 5 | Implicit in the notion of a game is that of taking a risk , and one bases one 's decision on what it will cost if one loses . |
| 6 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 7 | The amount of rent charged would be a matter within the jurisdiction of the tribunal , a matter on which it would have the power to err . |
| 8 | We can examine individual finds or groups of them in different ways , depending on how the find was made , the area in which it occurred or the problem on which it might throw light . |
| 9 | The clock is attached to the table on which it will stand by means of a padlock and plastic covered cable , which is located with the clock and out of sight . |
| 10 | Mr. Marston says that the court therefore has material on which it could confirm the order made by the justices , notwithstanding the way they dealt with the matter . |
| 11 | Talent should be given a stage on which it can perform . |