Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not disputed by the Legal Aid Board , and indeed it is obvious , that the existing practice is highly convenient and may avoid unnecessary costs being incurred which would eventually fall on the legal aid fund if it were necessary in every case to set in motion a procedure for filing of evidence . |
| 2 | So I can only build on the west side . |
| 3 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 4 | ‘ Better eat on the wing , though . ’ |
| 5 | The only obligations to transfer economic benefits which should not be taken into account are those which would not be considered in accordance with the going concern concept , that is , those which would only arise on the insolvency of the issuer and , where the issuer is expected to be able to comply with covenants on loan and similar agreements , those which would follow a breach of those covenants . |
| 6 | By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord . |
| 7 | ‘ You can only stay on the planet for twenty-four hours . ’ |
| 8 | In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament . |
| 9 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 10 | After the October 1979 coup , Archbishop Romero declared that the new regime lacked any popular backing and could only count on the support of a " few foreign powers " . |
| 11 | ‘ The arson charge does not add anything to the prosecution case against Harper , so you need only concentrate on the manslaughter charge against him . ’ |
| 12 | The two companies would keep separate identities and would only cooperate on the one service . |
| 13 | attention should not only focus on the workplace . |
| 14 | We can only improve on the Coventry display and that 's what we have to do . |
| 15 | The label ‘ DCE compliant ’ wo n't necessarily appear on the early releases although the technology will form the core of the offering . |
| 16 | we do n't all work on the clone do we ? |
| 17 | Furthermore , the auditors can only report on the information which they have been given by the Vendor and if that information is inaccurate ( causing the Accounts to be wrong ) the auditors will not be at fault . |
| 18 | As the Welsh policy says , the internal market can only work on the basis of a high level of integration of technology . |
| 19 | According to Marx , revolutions can only occur on the basis of appropriate material conditions , where economic development is being held hack by the existing social relations . |
| 20 | In accepting being alone much will obviously depend on the reason behind the situation and our ability to deal with the problems related to being a single person : the death of a partner or parents in retirement ; becoming separated or divorced ; adjusting to being an ‘ alien ’ pensioner . |
| 21 | The facilities available in each division will obviously depend on the particular system , but a fairly common division would be as follows . |
| 22 | What steps are reasonable in any particular case will obviously depend on the circumstances in which the policeman ( or the citizen ) finds himself , but these might include requiring trespassers to leave , requiring a speaker to move from his chosen spot , or to desist from speaking altogether , calling for quiet when noise seems likely to provoke a breach of the peace ; in short , anything that is necessary to prevent the breach from occurring . |
| 23 | The figures selected will obviously depend on the nature of a company 's business , but generally the most interesting trends to note will include : sales , net assets , profit , and dividends . |
| 24 | The number of days in a month will obviously depend on the month in question ; thus if a contract requires goods to be paid for within one month of delivery , and goods are delivered on 19 February , they must be paid for by 19 March ( see Dodds v Walker [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1061 ) . |
| 25 | Our troops could only move on the roads and had to be supplied with food . |
| 26 | Hence , whether a child is placed with a foster family or in residential care may not so much depend on the child 's needs but on where he or she happens to live . |
| 27 | Does it very much depend on the size ? |
| 28 | As Isard ( 1975 : 377 ) remarks : ‘ communications do not merely depend on the context for their interpretation , they change that context ’ . |
| 29 | The salary will naturally depend on the size and range of work of the practice in which the trainee solicitor is articled , but The Law Society sets down recommended minimum salaries and can refuse to register articles where the salary is less than this figure . |
| 30 | You 'd better sleep on the problem . |