Example sentences of "[be] [conj] it [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer seems to be that it depends on their immediate environment , how they are socialized , their level of education or ‘ culture ’ . |
| 2 | If it succeeds , it will be because it concentrates on achievable tasks . |
| 3 | The truth of the matter is that it depends on the person and not the music we listen to . |
| 4 | The danger in utilizing a theory of ‘ mind ’ to solve the problem of grounding the sociology of knowledge is that it depends on concepts that relate to individual and inaccessible behaviour — ‘ thought ’ , ‘ consciousness ’ , etc . |
| 5 | The second , and more important , is that it depends on the test conditions . |
| 6 | ‘ The thing about directing is that it depends on how you read a play . |
| 7 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |
| 8 | It consists of three parallel cylinders of spongy tissue enclosed in an outer sheath of elastic skin and all we ask is that it stiffens on demand and performs its time-honoured functions without complaint . |
| 9 | A major difficulty with the thesis is that it rests on an a priori allocation of functions between national and local states , and that these functions are then assumed to produce specific and separate political processes . |
| 10 | The play 's strength is that it draws on Eliot 's earlier work and makes that earlier work transferable to the West End , a triumph in itself ; its weakness , like that of most of the plays , is that it offers us little we can not find more concisely and intensely expressed in the poetry . |
| 11 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |
| 12 | Erm the fourth advantage I would say is that it focuses on the balance between the need to promote rural enterprise and the need to protect the countryside . |
| 13 | That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us : |
| 14 | Indeed , Ross thinks the moral philosopher must take the deliverances of common morality as his basic data ( as Moore , in spite of his much proclaimed faith in ‘ common sense ’ did not ) though this is because it rests on intuitions of necessary truth . |
| 15 | The reason this one survived is because it travelled on the tour bus and not on the chartered plane , which crashed after take-off from Mason City airport in Iowa , while taking Holly , the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens to a gig in Moorhead , Minnesota . |
| 16 | As he explained to J. H. Oldham , the difficulty about " Christian action " was that it depended on which side of the equation you wished to stress . |
| 17 | One of the problems that the Conservative government faced in the 1980s was that it depended on over 400 local authorities in England alone to implement large parts of its policies , for example housing , education and social services . |