Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I can only build on the west side . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Better eat on the wing , though . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You can only stay on the planet for twenty-four hours . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | ‘ The arson charge does not add anything to the prosecution case against Harper , so you need only concentrate on the manslaughter charge against him . ’ |
| 10 | attention should not only focus on the workplace . |
| 11 | we do n't all work on the clone do we ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As the Welsh policy says , the internal market can only work on the basis of a high level of integration of technology . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Does it very much depend on the size ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As Isard ( 1975 : 377 ) remarks : ‘ communications do not merely depend on the context for their interpretation , they change that context ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You 'd better sleep on the problem . |
| 23 | The plaintiff can only recover on the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of the defendant 's . |
| 24 | You can , you can only vote on the application before you . |
| 25 | However , as part of a " fast-track " agreement made with the Bush administration in July 1991 , Congress could only vote on the agreement and not amend it . |
| 26 | Equally , we should remark that the interpretation of an adjective as associative does not necessarily depend on the existence of a noun from which the adjective can be seen as derived . |
| 27 | In the end it may all depend on the depth of Richard Branson 's pocket , in moments of nostalgia even he may wonder if he sold the wrong business . |
| 28 | If you get your books right , it 'll all happen on the shopfloor . |
| 29 | I saw the doctor who said I 'd better go on the hospital wing , which seemed ludicrous simply because I needed to use eye drops and an asthma inhalant and asthma pills . |
| 30 | The hierarchy of a church is important in the libidinal ties in churches , for they do not only rest on the love of the abstract figure of Christ , but on living people who are his priests , bishops and ministers in the various groups . |