Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If permission to develop land is refused or granted subject to conditions , whether by the local planning authority or by the Secretary of State for the Environment , and the owner of the land claims that the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state and can not be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of any development which has been or would be permitted he may serve on the Council , a purchase notice requiring the Council to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 . |
| 2 | He may bang on the table with a mallet and then shout , ‘ Pray silence for THE BRIDEGROOM ! ’ |
| 3 | On the other hand a diary entry such as ‘ ring X ’ is effective and if the entry is some way in the future it may be necessary to amplify with a trigger of the form ‘ ring X re Y ’ and to have easily accessible some factual data such as the X telephone number and some data re Y. In a different context a car driver will develop a strategy to ensure that he does not run out of petrol , he may rely on a light which appears when the tank is nearly empty or he may calculate from his expected travelling that he need not concern himself about the issue until at least the next weekend , or he may programme himself to react to the fact that he is approaching a particular garage . |
| 4 | Try to persuade him to make a real effort to give up smoking — he may put on a bit of weight but he can tackle that later — and to eat frequent snacks throughout the day instead of two or three heavy meals . |
| 5 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 6 | He should reflect on the Secretary of State 's opening remarks , which were clear and helpful to customers , as this Bill will be . |
| 7 | If his legal status is to be changed , he must rely on the generosity of the citizens . |
| 8 | If he does not accept the proposals he must give on the form his reasons for non-acceptance . |
| 9 | I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself . |
| 10 | He 'll land on the divorce now ! |
| 11 | He 'll sit on the back of it and I ca n't get up ! |
| 12 | Does it have a WYSIWYG mode or , to put it into English , does the user see on the screen exactly what he 'll get on the page ? |
| 13 | But then came a row with the aged President Tito over the sort of reception he might expect on a visit to Belgrade . |
| 14 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 15 | He could sit on a terrace in the French quarter , sipping wine , and feel he was in France . |
| 16 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 17 | I felt the pathos of this remark , as all he could do on the banjo was strum ‘ plunk plunk plunk ’ over and over again . |
| 18 | By putting up a clergyman as a candidate , he could rely on the vote of hundreds of MAs who , sitting in their country rectories , could easily be persuaded by a judiciously worded letter that their old University was falling into the hands of infidels . |
| 19 | He is blessed , though , with large hands which assisted him with the amount of spin he could impart on a cricket ball . |
| 20 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 21 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 22 | He 'd asked if he could work on the girl , but Frick had refused . |
| 23 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 24 | When down himself ( very seldom ) , he could count on a pratfall from his hysterical shaman , Drew ‘ Bundini ’ Brown , on the latest bizarre news from his scheming court , maybe a straight line from some reporter that he would turn into a ricocheting soliloquy on , say , the disgusting aesthetics of dining on pig . |
| 25 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 26 | There was no evidence yet that Isabella enjoyed widespread support in England , and Edward no doubt felt he could count on the loyalty of the nobles to whom he committed responsibility for the defence of the south coast . |
| 27 | Yesterday , Ferguson said : ‘ I think it was a question of convincing Ryan that he could operate on the right . |
| 28 | And then last year Branson sold the music business to Thorn E M I for five hundred and sixty million pounds so he could focus on the airline , which was losing money . |
| 29 | He could sell on the term ( as lawyers say , " assign " it ) . |
| 30 | But he floated into the midst of a sea of water stretching as far as he could discern on every side around him . |