Example sentences of "on [conj] it " in BNC.

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2 The Parthenon in Athens contained a famous gold and ivory statue of Athene and the Parthenon must have been even hotter when the roof was on than it is today .
3 The wheelchair has both brakes on once it is in position .
4 So erm that 's , if you 're , if you 're getting behind on that it 's worth trying to do something about it soonish before you get too far behind to manage to catch up
5 on that it would n't close on that .
6 Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved .
7 It 's tragic — there 's a chap along this road that I like to keep my eye on and it 's as long as it 's short — to lose your eldest boy .
8 Because there was a bit of a drought on and it filled in , like , for the smack … .
9 The man is moving up and down over Andy , his backside looks large and white against the green of the ferns ; he still has the rucksack on and it looks weird , frightening and comical at the same time .
10 ‘ Yes , I had the light on and it was twenty-five minutes past two by my little bedside clock . ’
11 It is a good idea to make a BOOT disk in case you ever have problems when you first turn the machine on and it has difficulty reading the hard drive .
12 Inspector Mick Barry , of Witham police , said at first officers thought the two older youths may have led the nine-year-old on but it turned out he played a full part in all the crimes .
13 That 'll have been the trawler run ashore on on er Pearworth Gareth and we were all come ashore on but it was n't er .
14 Binoche expects the painting to fetch about £30m , but the figure depends on whether it gets a French export licence .
15 Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ .
16 The hike in Jaguar 's share price since Ford announced its intentions will have a crucial bearing on whether it can put together a defensive deal with GM .
17 Over the years since then , the debate on whether it was better to cross the Channel by tunnel , bridge or ferry had raged to and fro .
18 The answer to those questions may be said to depend on whether it is generally as serious to obtain sex by deception as it is by other means ( threats , force , fear ) .
19 In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect .
20 Another method for dosing ‘ careful ’ patients is also suggested in the same chapter whereby the pellet is dissolved in 200 ( approx.8ml ) , 300 ( 12ml ) or 400 drops ( 16ml ) of a 50% brandy solution , depending on whether it is to be weaker or stronger , and one , two , three or several drops , according to the irritability of the patient , are dropped into a cup containing a tablespoon of water .
21 Even if legitimate authority is limited by the condition that its directives are not binding if clearly wrong , and I wish to express no opinion on whether it is so limited , it can play its mediating role .
22 It depends on whether participation is voluntary and on whether it was known to involve normative consequences .
23 Control subjects that experienced training in which the immediate consequences of the light did not differ in their reinforcing value from one trial to another ( for these the interval between the offset of the light and food delivery was fixed and thus did not depend on whether it contained a tone or a clicker ) showed a steady decline in the frequency of the OR .
24 It can lead people to linking arms at Blackpool and , depending on whether it 's the Labour Party Conference or the annual darts team binge singing The Red Flag or the Okie Cokie but it can also lead to a group of skins bunging bricks through a Pakistani 's shop window .
25 Nearly always some compromise can be reached with the vendor , depending on whether it is a buyer 's or a seller 's market , but at least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you 've been through everything with a fine tooth comb , that you 've done the best you possibly can and know what you are letting yourself in for !
26 The determination of whether a capital instrument represents a liability is based on whether it contains an obligation for the issuer to transfer economic benefits ( paragraph 21 ) .
27 Where an instrument transfers property in contemplation of the sale of the property at a later date , its treatment will depend on whether it falls within the terms of s 90 , FA 1963 .
28 This Autumn Statement and the new economic policy it set down must be judged on whether it gets the country back to work , reduces the dole queues and brings hope back to the British people .
29 Details of housing allowances should also be supplied as well as advice on whether it is usual to employ domestic staff and , if so , how much to pay them and where they should live .
30 In other words , the treaty was simply introduced as a hindrance that had to be disposed of before other business could be tackled : the vote , negative as expected , was in fact not on the treaty itself , but on whether it ought to be discussed .
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