Example sentences of "[vb pp] not on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the District gained little direct financial benefit from increased enrolments as the capitation fee which branches paid to District funds was calculated not on student enrolment but on WEA membership . |
| 2 | The peasants ' " redemption dues " were calculated not on the basis of the land which came into their possession but on the basis of the rents and services that they owed under serfdom . |
| 3 | For groups to function at this level , opportunity has to be given for full social contact between members , and the emphasis has to be placed not on activity , but on group interaction . |
| 4 | For example , in ‘ Japan ’ the primary stress is on the last syllable , but when we add the stress-carrying suffix ‘ -ese ’ the primary stress is on the suffix and the secondary stress is placed not on the second syllable but on the first : ‘ Japanese ’ . |
| 5 | But the frequency with which women were thus brutalised depended not on the category of entrant they fell into but on whether Immigration Officers wanted to use these methods , and on the attitude of the Minister responsible . |
| 6 | It would also help convince them that politicians have decided not on the basis of the best orchestrated campaign but by seeking to occupy the high moral ground , wherever it might be found . |
| 7 | The followers or ‘ administrative staff are selected not on the basis of status or qualification , but according to personal devotion . |
| 8 | The county has a view about golf courses — that if there is to be such a development it is better for them to be sited not on good farming land , or in naturally beautiful areas , but on the outskirts of towns . |
| 9 | These taxes are levied not on particular households or firms but on the goods they buy or sell . |
| 10 | An ad valorem tax is a percentage tax , levied not on volume but on value ; e.g. in 1993 VAT is 17.5% of sales price , and corporation tax is 33% of assessable profits for larger companies and 25% for smaller companies . |
| 11 | [ There is an ] exceptional case , in which , though the predicate is the name of a class , yet in predicating it we affirm nothing but resemblance , the class being founded not on resemblance in any given particular , but on general unanalysable resemblance . |
| 12 | Mariana 's critics pointed out that his ‘ gothic perfections ’ hid what they considered a crass historical error : liberty was founded not on democratic pressures but on grants from the crown . |
| 13 | Yet in Roman law discretion is regularly interpreted not on the subjective criterion of an individual 's own opinion but on the objective standard of what a good man would think in the circumstances . |
| 14 | I wonder how many of Expotel 's customers are aware that Expotel 's recommendations are based not on hotel quality but on the self-interested payment up-front of this ‘ sweetener ’ , plus exclusive corporate rates ? |
| 15 | Where ‘ belief ’ is based not on experience and observation , but on the revelation of the Gospels , Locke speaks of ‘ faith ’ . |
| 16 | And they pillaged Earth because their lives were based not on co-operation with Nature , but on money . |
| 17 | He first of all asked for a mandate based not on the distortions of a month 's electioneering but on his 16 months in the leadership , not least his performance on the international stage . |
| 18 | In Britain , most juries would find it depraving and corrupting to solicit members of the public to become voyeurs of an actual rape , murder , and dismemberment , but a new criminal test based not on the effect of the work , but on the circumstances of its production could provide one more useful link in the chain of criminal provisions which modern media law requires . |
| 19 | The benefit of this revolutionary diet is based not on just one advantage over other diets but on many factors which add up to faster , easier , more effective slimming . |
| 20 | Goodwill through golf , Hopkins ' idea , is based not on money , but on the notion that little-known golfers would broaden their horizons , and stretch their abilities , by matching shots with the stars . |
| 21 | After the banning of the CPSU these liberal groups decided to form a new left-wing party based not on a new programme but on the liberal and , in essence , social democratic programme of the CPSU . |
| 22 | Among other metaphors there is a rich cluster based not on sight but on touch , some likewise submerged in Latin etymologies ( ‘ conceive ’ , ‘ apprehend ’ , ‘ comprehend ’ , from concipio ‘ seize together ’ , apprehendo ‘ grasp ’ , comprehendo ‘ grasp together ’ ) , others overt ( ‘ be in touch ’ , ‘ grasp ’ something , ‘ catch on ’ to it , ‘ get the point ’ , ‘ feel ’ that it is ‘ palpably ’ true ) . |
| 23 | Once again , it is necessary that the separate items should be demonstrably reliable and valid , since specific interpretations may well be based not on the accumulation of correct and incorrect responses , but on the child 's pattern of scores . |
| 24 | The latter term describes a truer form of knowledge based not on ideas as such but ideas about real forms of existence , that is ‘ materialism ’ . |
| 25 | It is based not on the mythico-religious system resistant to challenge but on the exchange relations of the commodity market including the labour market . |
| 26 | The authority of civil association is an endowment which is not traceable to any particular source and which lies only in ‘ continuous acknowledgement ’ based not on acts of obedience ‘ but in the continuous recognition of the obligation to subscribe to its prescriptions because it has a certain shape ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ That study was based not on preconceived notions but on the observations of structure in the drawings themselves . |
| 28 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 29 | Labour 's success was based not on equality of opportunity but on the assertion that a working man was more equal than others in his claim to represent the working-class electorate . |
| 30 | Another good reason for antiracist scepticism about culture was the emergence in the 1980s of a ‘ new racism ’ based not on ideas of innate biological superiority , but on the supposed incompatibility of cultural traditions ( see , for example , Barker , 1981 ) . |