Example sentences of "that [vb mod] [vb infin] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The archer fish is partial to flies and other insects that may settle on plants growing on the banks . |
| 2 | He fears the demands that will be made on him for reparation and ‘ the punishment and revenge that may fall on him . |
| 3 | Arabian oryx also lick the dew that may accumulate on rocks and on each others ' hair , as the humid air from the Arabian Sea rolls in at night . |
| 4 | With regard to landfill gas , as my hon. Friend knows , in addition to the schemes that should come on stream as a result of today 's announcement , there are some 36 landfill gas utilisation schemes in the United Kingdom , saving 160,000 tonnes of coal equivalent per annum . |
| 5 | That is one of the subtleties of the European negotiations that should impinge on the consciousness of Opposition Members . |
| 6 | This month 's disk holds an impressive collection of DOS programs that should work on all PCs . |
| 7 | But unknown to most of his colleagues he was busily collecting information that might bear on the question of how a species might change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 8 | Jim Bob very nearly loses the plot during the encores , extending every song by at least a minute with a series of unaccompanied vocal chants ( including the now familiar climax to their version of ‘ Another Brick In The Wall ’ : ‘ There is a song that 'll get on your nerves , get on your nerves , GET ON YOUR NERVES ! ’ ) . |
| 9 | Look for bits of the programme that could stand on their own . |
| 10 | HERE 's a semi that could grow on you … |
| 11 | The Scowcroft commission , charged with closing the vulnerability window , had recommended in 1983 that , along with the MX , the United States should build a small , single-warhead , truly mobile missile that could go on roads : the Midgetman . |
| 12 | In the 1985 campaign Tritsis traversed Cephalonia , followed by convoys of adoring supporters in trucks , tractors and motor-cars , indeed anything that could move on wheels . |
| 13 | There , representatives of British manufacturers will try to overturn the government 's commitment , made only last month , to put the onus on the car firms to produce vehicles that could run on low octane petrol by 1990 at the latest . |
| 14 | It illustrated up-to-date transport , such as rotor powered ships , the rotors being driven by the wind , and buses that could run on railway lines . |
| 15 | This included a diagram of drainage basin transformation from low to high density which related the severe gullying that could occur on slopes to the aggradation along the main valley axis . |
| 16 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 17 | I said we did n't need a strong fence as the one tree that could fall on it already had . |
| 18 | Where amounts are included in debt representing instruments in respect of which the claim that would arise on a winding up is significantly different from that at which the instrument is stated in the financial statements , the amount of the claim that would arise on a winding up should be stated . |
| 19 | Where amounts are included in debt representing instruments in respect of which the claim that would arise on a winding up is significantly different from that at which the instrument is stated in the financial statements , the amount of the claim that would arise on a winding up should be stated . |
| 20 | Buy a second hand valve head ( around 50 watts ) that would sit on top of my Peavey using the speaker in the Peavey cabinet and switch between the two amplifiers depending upon what sound I wanted . |
| 21 | He knew that what he was seeing meant jobs for Cork , wage-packets for its workers , money for its shopkeepers , business for its tradesmen ; but , more than that , more even than the commerce that would result on a national scale , he saw it as history in action . |
| 22 | We confidently assume that the results set out here will , in their broad principles , be valid for any language ; however , because of the limitless domains that would appear on the horizon if one were to include proper exemplification from other languages , and since there is ample material to consider in English alone , the latter is the basis on which the investigation will proceed . |
| 23 | I dreaded the ‘ I knew as much ’ smirk that would appear on Mr Palmer 's face once he learned my news . |
| 24 | There is , I believe , a strong case for encouraging more administrators from the developing countries to participate in seminars of that sort , while at the same time trying to reduce the very heavy demand that would make on the time of people primarily engaged in other tasks . |
| 25 | Erm in terms of taking up their ideas , guiding them , encouraging them etcetera an and saying look , you know , this is okay er er er I mean to an extent that would depend on how much military security there was in the area . |
| 26 | He objected to the ‘ high percentage ’ of the £5m fund that would go on administration . |
| 27 | It may be that a separate recogniser could be constructed that would concentrate on these sort of features , i.e. the shape of a word found from its ascending and descending characters . |
| 28 | The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 . |
| 29 | These should have specialised sections that would agitate on different issues and among different sections of the population . |
| 30 | Holly smiled to himself , chuckled softly , because he saw in his mind the face of the man who had brought the food to the hatch , and he thought of the retribution that would fall on the cretin 's shoulders . |