Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will occur where the corporate controllers perceive that the long-run loss to the company 's wealth ( and to a greater or lesser extent their own — it may depend on a number of variables ) is likely to be greater than the short-term profits . |
| 2 | Equally it may depend on the social factors that may have determined the decoration used ; the earlier brooches may be designed to satisfy a society in which there is less variation in social identity than later . |
| 3 | It may depend on the philosophy of management in the company or on the personality of the chief executive . ’ |
| 4 | Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour . |
| 5 | Though it may snack on a strawberry , the ground beetle is an ally |
| 6 | Prompt antibiotic treatment , aggressive resuscitation , and debridement of the surgical wound , no matter how clean it may appear on the surface , is essential for successful management . |
| 7 | In what follows , I want to look very briefly at the formal structure , and the various departments that may be found in it : and then in rather greater detail at the account group as it may operate on a single client 's account , and how it may — with luck — interact effectively with the client 's own operations . |
| 8 | The law of that state as to the service of documents originating abroad may permit documents to be sent directly to the defendant without the use of any local official acting as intermediary , or it may insist on the documents passing through , for example , the court having jurisdiction at the defendant 's place of residence , the parquet attached to that court , or a huissier practising in the relevant area . |
| 9 | For the sake of completeness and of the bearing it may have on the method by which Step 1 is achieved , a list is given here of the products which it is hoped to manufacture by the manipulation of the output from Step 1 . |
| 10 | Peaceful though it may seem on the reef , it 's actually a battleground for even the most motionless creatures suggests LES HOLLIDAY . |
| 11 | It should draw on a wide spectrum of information sources : interview data , close description of observed events , documentary evidence , as well as test and examination results . |
| 12 | He was cooking ; murder was , for the moment at any rate , not in his thoughts , the sun was at last shining in the way it should do on a seaside holiday , and there were still three more days of holiday to go . |
| 13 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 14 | Again it should flourish on a mainly vegetable diet . |
| 15 | Part A trial bundle two it should say on the front of it . |
| 16 | Critics say it should concentrate on a less exclusive market . |
| 17 | It should get on the 800 server series in the third quarter . |
| 18 | There was wide support for the continuation of the scheme , in the light of the endorsements provided by the Baldwin and Hill research project , and that it should operate on a demand-led basis . |
| 19 | It must proceed on the presumption omnia praesumuntur rite esse acta until that presumption can be displaced by the applicant for review — upon whom the onus lies of doing so . |
| 20 | Accordingly , it must follow on the facts that the claim to privilege was not made out . |
| 21 | He also made much of its cost-effectiveness , especially as an instrument with which to earn influence in Nato and in future East–West arms talks , quite apart from the military impression it might make on the USSR . |
| 22 | ‘ One moment , ’ the Maître d'Hôtel said , ‘ while I check , ’ and Lucy was pretty sure that whatever it might say on the reservations list , no booking in the name of Wingate was about to be found . |
| 23 | But the FA 's reply confirmed that they would not allow the match to take place because they were worried about the effect it might have on the pitch . |
| 24 | We are waiting for a new quotation from Eurofighter for their part of the programme erm but in advance of receiving it I 'd not rather not speculate as to which impact it might have on the project . |
| 25 | That 's why we 're not really rushing into this , however precipitate it might seem on the surface . ’ |
| 26 | It 'll float on the top wo n't it ? |
| 27 | And believe it or not it fits on , it 'll fit on the drive . |
| 28 | I mean it 'll save on the wallpaper as well |
| 29 | The next day the sun woke them early , beating down from a clear sky , baking those tiles it could reach on the terrace so that the children hopped over them , nimble as cats on hot bricks . |
| 30 | so it could go on a separate tape if you wanted that to happen , it 's on a Mazda tape |