Example sentences of "[conj] falls on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stands or falls on this one event . |
| 2 | Emergency admissions as a result of road traffic accidents or falls on icy pavements can not be arranged . |
| 3 | Your company stands or falls on how quickly it can handle information . |
| 4 | Whitty and Jones 's analysis stands or falls on the meaning of health , whether health services have an impact on health , and on the central functions of public health medicine . |
| 5 | ‘ It stands or falls on the quality of its detail , ’ says Winston . |
| 6 | Despite their manifest differences , all five views that I have just sketched out are united in that none of them hangs or falls on the notion of critical abilities . |
| 7 | This is a provision which is usually inserted , since , once an order has been placed , it becomes a separate contract , with a life of its own , and stands or falls on the terms and conditions which govern it . |
| 8 | Popular support for Mr Hussein grows with each bomb that falls on Iraq . |
| 9 | For example , in flowering plants the haploid stage is reduced to the pollen tube , derived from a haploid pollen grain that falls on the stigma of a flower and grows until it reaches and fertilizes the egg cell that lies in the flower 's ovary . |
| 10 | The more light that falls on the eyes , the more the pupils contract to vertical slits ; the less light there is , the more they open up to round , black pools . |
| 11 | A customer slips and falls on the shop floor — the floor was still greasy after an assistant had broken a bottle of salad cream , although the breakage had been cleaned up . |
| 12 | For if not then ultimately there is no meaning to survival ; for a life whose meaning stands and falls on whether one escapes or not … ultimately would not be worth living at all ’ |