Example sentences of "that it [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached .
2 My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’
3 Development at Scott Lithgow could be hampered by the fact that it lies on unimproved land outside the Inverclyde Enterprise Zone .
4 This study goes at least some way towards overcoming the problems of other work discussed by Box and Hale ( 1986 , pp. 74–5 ) , in that it relies on self-reported victimisation rather than police figures on recorded crime , and it controls for other socio-demographic variables .
5 A general account of nomic connection is an aim of philosophy but no more an aim of science , despite the fact that it rests on such connection , than , say , a general theory of prosody is an aim of poets .
6 Metcalfe and Richards believe that it rests on public management 's focus on structural problems .
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