Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should focus on internal needs defined by the school and its teachers , not merely what outsiders consider to be important . |
| 2 | If faith is to be solidly grounded at all , it must rest on some more secure foundation than that . |
| 3 | Mr. Burke submits that if judicial review lies at all , then it is not possible to pick and choose between Lord Diplock 's three categories : it must lie on all three grounds or not at all . |
| 4 | It might work on Old Red , I decided , summing him up . |
| 5 | Where it , I used to think it might touch on this |
| 6 | This would offer an overview of the environment — both as it is now and how it might become on present trends . |
| 7 | It 'll work on any phone , not just your own . |
| 8 | So it could go on all day , in fact it would n't mature would it overnight , because the computer does n't allow it . |
| 9 | This meant it could concentrate on two core businesses — security printing and heating and bathroom products . |
| 10 | It could fatten on coarser feed than the Durham and was early maturing for beef , and the oxen could be good draught workers as well as slaughter beasts , though the cows were not good milkers . |
| 11 | Perhaps , just as the BA holds a senior and junior College and University Booksellers Group conference , it could put on two mainline conferences : one for the under 45s , for the men and women who actually do the biz ; and one for the older members of the trade . |
| 12 | Er I think er it 's easy to talk about taking off two and a half percent here and there , I could probably put forward a number of reasons why it could add on two and a half percent , five percent to the figures and indeed I 'd be very disappointed if at the end of the day , we did n't achieve er greater reductions because once you get out long distance through traffic , er whose prime purpose is to move from A to B as quickly as possible , once you do that it gives you the opportunity then of bringing in the sorts of measures to improve pedestrian safety , er to slow traffic down , introduce traffic calming , which you ca n't do on primary routes . |
| 13 | I mean it could work on that basis then , that if , for example , I 'm just thinking about , well just from my point of view , when i was arranging that date in Stirling with the Oxford people , I could of said well , Thursday 's okay with me is it okay with you until I 've checked with |
| 14 | In the Hague , the International Court of Justice said it would sit on 1 April for the first public hearing in a war crimes case Bosnia has brought against Serbia and Montenegro . |
| 15 | In any case if I had any spare money it would go on clerical assistance . |
| 16 | " It would depend on nervous strain or other excitement , of course , but from the look of things this strikes me as a fairly cool job . |
| 17 | One might suppose that it would depend on all the complex features of the star from which it had formed — not only its mass and rate of rotation , but also the different densities of various parts of the star , and the complicated movements of the gases within the star . |
| 18 | Therefore it would seem on this approach that the court first has to decide whether the covenant is intrinsically just and reasonable before it applies the object and intent test . |
| 19 | The need to enlist French help , with the awareness that it would come on French terms , was agreed by the council which met at Stirling on 2 November 1547 . |
| 20 | In view of the greet speed at which the bistable can operate , it would toggle on each bounce and the results would be unpredictable . |
| 21 | It would focus on specific knowledge or skills ; the test questions would need to be carefully designed to reveal any lack of understanding which may exist . |
| 22 | Initially , it would focus on separating plutonium from spent fuel as a service to about 125 research reactors , most of them in developing countries . |
| 23 | Secondly , it will comment on working-age women 's access to membership of employers ' pension schemes and the extent to which it appears that their risk of poverty in retirement may have lessened , both by increased access in their own right and through improved provision for widows . |
| 24 | If a TB is issued on 10 January , it will mature on 10 April . |
| 25 | It will rely on 1,500 consultants in 30 countries in groups that include Management Consulting for Business Transformation and Information Technology Strategy & Planning ; Functional Consulting for Application Development ; an Industrial Sector ; and Technology Consulting , IBM noted . |
| 26 | A Sinhalese member of the Legislative Council thought that magistrates would have difficulties carrying out the spirit of the legislation : ‘ A crowd appears in the Police Court in the morning and unless plaints are presented and the names called out it will be somewhat difficult for the Magistrate to ascertain who are the people who have come to offer plaints and it will depend on some minor Court official or the peons as to who are admitted to the precincts of the Court . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It will depend on some test , ’ said Rachaela vaguely . |
| 28 | ‘ It will depend on little Arthur 's condition . ’ |
| 29 | It will grow on several varieties of British tree , the apple being the favourite , although others include the plum , poplar , hawthorn and mountain ash . |
| 30 | There is the danger that it will verge on unmixed eulogy , a veritable paean of praise , owing to an embarrassing lack of material for even the mildest fault-finding that might serve to give it an edge . |