Example sentences of "but [adj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In full configuration , it is claimed to offer ‘ five times the performance of mainframe systems ’ — but that depends on users writing applications that can keep all the processors popping , and that is the hard part . |
| 2 | But that depends on whether rivals can move in so quickly . |
| 3 | But that depends on whether he can be added to the UN 's approved list of wounded . |
| 4 | ‘ But that depends on the capacity of the British Merchant Navy to obtain the orders that are there throughout the world . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I would like to have something makeshift set up by Friday but that depends on an assessment from the health and safety people . |
| 6 | But some depend on a specific view of science , notably that there are objective and timeless laws at work and that normative considerations are to be excluded . |
| 7 | But this relied on the use of the old open-reel machines . |
| 8 | Students may find themselves performing in final productions over two full terms , which means they have the opportunity to play twice as many parts , but this depends on the school 's policy and how they think you have progressed . |
| 9 | You may not get to attend client meetings , but this depends on whether you were employed as an experienced but young professional or are a new entrant who is just beginning . |
| 10 | I could put some in the World wide web — I think that you can get them across that way , but this depends on people having access to the web — ok if you 're on a unix box , tough s*** if not . |
| 11 | But this focusing on form , as a condition for comprehension , will usually have to be artificially induced by some contrivance or other in a foreign language situation . |
| 12 | Those who ran the farm enterprises well were capable of achieving incomes in excess of the average full-time farm income but this depended on their qualifications and type of employment . |
| 13 | But this depended on keeping Coleridge away from ‘ stimulants ’ ( i.e. brandy ) , and when Wordsworth happened to mention his difficulties to a friend , the final quarrel was inevitable . |
| 14 | But this depended on a ceasefire . |
| 15 | The latter has the organisation , the marketing skill and the backing to offer viable meetings , but these centre on the affluent conurbations and are not therefore always accessible to members . |
| 16 | Sholto Douglas engaged two Bf110s , but these turned on the Fulmar , gaining hits on both its wings which caused damage to the hydraulic system . |
| 17 | They formulated a programme of demands , but these fell on deaf ears in Petrograd . |
| 18 | There are others , but these appear on many travellers ' lists of favourite hotels . |
| 19 | Sponge filters are the ones that come to mind , but these work on the biological action and have to be allowed to mature before they become really effective . |
| 20 | Surviving eyewitnesses are few in number , and give contradictory descriptions of the killer , but all agree on his unnatural strength and viciousness . |
| 21 | There are hundreds of varieties , some ripening early and some late , but all rely on a mild spring to prevent damage to the lovely blossoms and on bees to pollinate them . |
| 22 | The vines surround the village on all sides , but those grown on the highest slopes , on either side of the D10 to the west of Ambonnay , are by far the most successful ; on the plain , either side of the D9 , the vineyards are noticeably inferior . |
| 23 | The first thing we must do is to defeat the MacSharry proposals that target British farm workers , and particularly those relating to sheepmeat , which represent a direct attack on those who work in British agriculture — not merely those who own or rent farms but those employed on them . |
| 24 | You will need to measure round the curtain to gauge the length of the tie-back , but first decide on its best position . |
| 25 | Some costs fall on the private sector , but most fall on overstretched public-sector organizations . |
| 26 | But most agreed on the basic characteristics of the earliest ‘ state of nature ’ from which the great evolutionary adventure had begun . |
| 27 | Oddly enough these men of science are not only willing but eager to talk on their subject , and to that end he 's invited the author of his present reading matter to lunch on Sunday to explain about ‘ … anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibodies , that … ’ |