Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] on " in BNC.

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1 Once all water which contains or could on present trends contain , 50 mg/litre nitrate is designated ‘ vulnerable ’ , steps would have to be taken to reduce nitrate pollution .
2 All information , matters and circumstances relating to the Business which are or would on reasonable enquiry be known to the Vendor and which are material to be known by a purchaser for value of the Business have been disclosed in writing to the Purchaser .
3 What there will be and nor will on on the other hand , nor will there be any forks .
4 Temperatures during the short summer are somewhat kinder and may on some days reach 20 ° C. Nonetheless , summer or winter , this is an inhospitable environment and to be able to survive here , the mountain goat needs a special set of structural and behavioural adaptations .
5 Although only about one third of staff are represented by their diaries , the reader can still perhaps get a ‘ feel ’ of how some parts of the school operate , and may on occasion be able to read between the lines .
6 The explanation for this can not be sought in the tenses of the verbs that the testator has used , for they are all historic with respect to the time the will was made and ought on that basis to refer to no time later than that .
7 As a general rule data users should give as much information as possible to data subjects about what they propose to do with the data and must on no account mislead them .
8 His manner was normally gracious and unperturbed , although he was a man of powerful emotions and could on occasion explode violently .
9 The phrasal appositions in , for example , [ 22 ] and [ 12 ] involve a violation of a syntactic pattern in much the same way as the epiphora in [ 24 ] , and would on these grounds be classified as a rhetorical device in a classical account .
10 Because it is on that occasion that you will already have , and will on your final visit , have made up your mind as to the nature of the northern part of the village of Skelton , the nature of the land immediately surrounding it , whether it be a paddock , or a small field , whether it be more associated in the minds of some with the open country , or in the minds of others with the village .
11 This lucid and candid prose , strong in the detail of a particular time and place , often ignores , and can on occasion seem to depart from , the sense of the literature it embodies .
12 It was felt that the more conservative backward-looking elements no longer represented a serious threat to British authority , but could on the contrary be placated and transformed into loyal allies .
13 All the allegations made by the plaintiffs are denied by Mr. and Mrs. Tully but , of course , if there has been no fraud , the disclosure by Mr. and Mrs. Tully of their dealings and correspondence will not cause any harm but will on the contrary demonstrate that the suspicions of the plaintiffs are ill-founded .
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