Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] on [art] " 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 | Finally , if he gets pain at night he should sleep on an extra pillow or raise the head of the bed a few inches to stop the gastric juices flowing upwards into his chest . |
| 6 | Taking the election results as his guide , he should decide on a step-by-step approach , building on the fragile trust that does exist rather than risk another failure . |
| 7 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 8 | Namely , that he should walk on the injured limb . |
| 9 | He should reflect on the Secretary of State 's opening remarks , which were clear and helpful to customers , as this Bill will be . |
| 10 | IF Mr Major is intent on further training schemes , he should concentrate on the police , Customs officers , bus drivers , railway staff , children 's nurses and home helpers for the elderly . |
| 11 | If his legal status is to be changed , he must rely on the generosity of the citizens . |
| 12 | Then he must decide on the appropriate response , which is a legal , as well as a medical , decision . |
| 13 | If he does not accept the proposals he must give on the form his reasons for non-acceptance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now it is time for the new generation born in the wilderness to cross the Jordan , and to begin to take possession of the Land , led not by Moses , of course , since he must die on the wrong side of the river , but by Joshua . |
| 16 | He 'll land on the divorce now ! |
| 17 | That 's right , he 'll go on the Gideons club , we ought to have a bible meeting |
| 18 | He 'll stay on the same side of the road as me , or as anybody . |
| 19 | He 'll sit on the back of it and I ca n't get up ! |
| 20 | ‘ He 'll come on the very tick , ’ Breeze prophesied , as the clock struck three — and sure enough , there was the bath chair at the gate ! |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | But then came a row with the aged President Tito over the sort of reception he might expect on a visit to Belgrade . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | He could sit on a terrace in the French quarter , sipping wine , and feel he was in France . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I mean he could start on the |
| 27 | I felt the pathos of this remark , as all he could do on the banjo was strum ‘ plunk plunk plunk ’ over and over again . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Collector had posted all the men he could spare on the upper , north-facing verandah . |
| 30 | He is blessed , though , with large hands which assisted him with the amount of spin he could impart on a cricket ball . |