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

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1 ladies and gentlemen I would like to move a very small amendment to do a the second a membership on on item four on where it says up to three represent the area etcetera erm now the which I am currently a member of includes three libraries erm which are and and there are in fact five County Councils involved in the area of those three libraries when in fact Bushey has its own Bushey and there was a but I would like to see
2 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 .
3 Because there was a bit of a drought on and it filled in , like , for the smack … .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Binoche expects the painting to fetch about £30m , but the figure depends on whether it gets a French export licence .
9 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 .
10 The nine stages of gestation of the unit will take a variable length of time depending on whether it turns out to be an " elephant " or a " mouse " .
11 Thus power in modern capitalism might be more fractionated and pluralist than in the past — it might also be based on non-class political divisions — but in practice the use that was made of the state and its scope of manoeuvre would be conditional on whether it threatened capitalism as a system .
12 The epidemiology of H. contortus is best considered separately depending on whether it occurs in tropical and subtropical or in temperate areas .
13 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 .
14 However , this is only on procedural grounds and not , as in the United States , on the merits of the decision , that is on whether it conforms to the judicial view of what the constitution requires .
15 Whether or not Woolwich can claim to be awarded that interest depends on whether it had a cause of action to recover each payment as a debt due it on the date when it was made .
16 In order to facilitate consideration of the national court 's question ( 2 ) it appears advisable to divide it into sections depending on whether it relates to the nationality or the place of residence of the owners and operators ( ‘ operator ’ covers charterers , managers or operators within the meaning of section 14(1) ( c ) of the Act of 1988 ) , or to the place from which the vessel is operated , and hence to reformulate it as follows :
17 There is little to see , and users must make up their own minds on whether it covers their needs , rather than relying on the opinions of others .
18 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 ) .
19 France 's advertising standards authority had no immediate comment on whether it broke the law .
20 Insignia declines to comment on whether it has licensed Windows source code , though one Insignia insider said the company has had a Windows license for two years .
21 But whether , say , used office paper has an economic value may depend on whether it has been collected and sorted .
22 It is nonsense for us to debate such matters in Committee for an hour and a half and then , at the end of the debate , we vote not on the merits of the matter but on whether it has been considered .
23 Where … as in a mature legal system , we have a system of rules which includes a rule of recognition so that the status of a rule as a member of the system now depends on whether it satisfies certain criteria provided by the rule of recognition , this brings with it a new application of the word ‘ exist ’ .
24 Labour does not have a clear policy on whether it believes in a second and tolled crossing , or wants just one very congested bridge — which would be very bad news for Wales .
25 However , in sentences like ( 2a ) and ( 2b ) where the clause boundary and the unit of information boundary do coincide , the monitoring latency for trout should be significantly different depending on whether it completes a clause ( as in 2a ) or begins a new clause ( as in 2b ) :
26 Furthermore there is a covert hierarchy between X and Y , which the distinction depends on though it does not explicitly say so .
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