Example sentences of "be that [pron] [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 we now ask how we are able to get any grasp of the explanatory role of class strategy in Poulantzas ' theory , the answer is that we rely on our everyday , voluntarist understanding of it . |
| 3 | Where many dieters fall down is that they concentrate on cutting down on food , cutting out pleasure from their lives . |
| 4 | The trouble with our research and development programmes in information technology ( IT ) today is that they concentrate on technology push . |
| 5 | My plea to the Government , therefore , is that they concentrate on what they can do , and that is to improve the long-term prospects for the economy . |
| 6 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 7 | Yet one of the striking characteristics of Shakespeare 's Sonnets is that they exist on an almost universal level ; they are generalized ( with none of the depersonalization that usually goes with generalization ) ; they are widely , perhaps indefinitely applicable . |
| 8 | A problem sometimes associated with salespeople who have worked for the same company for many years is that they rely on established customers to provide repeat orders rather than actively seeking new business . |
| 9 | Fatima : I think the main difference between the Feminist Movement in Europe and Third World Countries is that they originated on the basis of different histories . |
| 10 | Equally , the discomfort associated with gonorrhoea is usually of a greater order , and men who have suffered repeated attacks of both infections can usually tell which infection it is that they have on any given occasion . |
| 11 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 12 | I 'll ask Carolyn what it is that she uses on hers because hers gets rid of the weeds as well . |
| 13 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
| 14 | One question , and that is that I noticed on page three , er , you 've got your revised estimate with effect in ninety four , five , you 've got nothing . |
| 15 | ‘ The other vital thing for me is that I keep on learning . |
| 16 | Another part of year 10 is that you go on work experience for two weeks . |
| 17 | So all I ask is that you go on the way you have started . ’ |
| 18 | And I was just squeezin maself into a five and a half when Moira McVitie round the crescent in the cul de sac comes by and shouts out ‘ Hiya there Verena is that you trying on some fuck-me shoes for yer man gettin back . ’ |
| 19 | The truth of the matter is that it depends on the person and not the music we listen to . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The second , and more important , is that it depends on the test conditions . |
| 22 | ‘ The thing about directing is that it depends on how you read a play . |
| 23 | If the encyclopaedia has a weakness it is that it sits on the fence on controversial issues . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All she knew was that she counted on Thomas . |
| 30 | 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 . |