Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] on the " 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 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 4 | Namely , that he should walk on the injured limb . |
| 5 | He should reflect on the Secretary of State 's opening remarks , which were clear and helpful to customers , as this Bill will be . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If his legal status is to be changed , he must rely on the generosity of the citizens . |
| 8 | Then he must decide on the appropriate response , which is a legal , as well as a medical , decision . |
| 9 | If he does not accept the proposals he must give on the form his reasons for non-acceptance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 'll land on the divorce now ! |
| 13 | That 's right , he 'll go on the Gideons club , we ought to have a bible meeting |
| 14 | He 'll stay on the same side of the road as me , or as anybody . |
| 15 | He 'll sit on the back of it and I ca n't get up ! |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | I mean he could start on the |
| 20 | I felt the pathos of this remark , as all he could do on the banjo was strum ‘ plunk plunk plunk ’ over and over again . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Collector had posted all the men he could spare on the upper , north-facing verandah . |
| 23 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 24 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 25 | He 'd asked if he could work on the girl , but Frick had refused . |
| 26 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 27 | There was no evidence yet that Isabella enjoyed widespread support in England , and Edward no doubt felt he could count on the loyalty of the nobles to whom he committed responsibility for the defence of the south coast . |
| 28 | The cultural budget , which stood at FFr3 billion in 1981 , is now FFr13 billion ( £1.3 billion ; $2.3 billion ) thirteen years later , precisely because he could count on the unconditional support of President Mitterrand , who is not only an acknowledged lover of both the arts and literature , but also requires an element of grandeur to be orchestrated and injected into large-scale projects ( see p.12 ) . |
| 29 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 30 | His eyes were glinting as he thought about the revenge he could have on the Islington people . |