Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Streamlined for swimming , much of the energy used in walking is squandered on side-to-side motion . |
| 2 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 3 | This figure is calculated on the assumption that an album retails for just under £7 . |
| 4 | The TRC is calculated on form A2317 from the Total number of manhours ( ie not per man ) spent at or in the locality of the customer 's premises only ( travelling time should not be included ) at the following Hour Charge Rates . ’ |
| 5 | The normal corporate tax rate is 31% and personal tax is calculated on a sliding scale , reaching a maximum of 30% for a taxable income of S$800,000 a year . |
| 6 | A student 's weekly expenditure — which is calculated on the basis of the price of a basket of goods in May — amounts to £160.13 . |
| 7 | CGT for an individual is calculated on the basis that the first £6300 net gains are exempt , and gains over £6300 attract a tax rate of 30 per cent . |
| 8 | This is calculated on all ( or nearly all ) your income , after deduction of your personal allowance ; and in the case of a married man , the married couple 's allowance . |
| 9 | The tax year runs from 6 April to 5 April the following year , so the amount of tax you pay in any one year is calculated on the income you receive ( or are deemed to have received ) between these two dates . |
| 10 | The economic effects of a service such as education are clearly impossible to quantify accurately , and attempts by economists to calculate returns on investment in education are laden with many assumptions and are unavoidably narrow in approach ; in particular , the financial return is calculated on the basis of a ratio between income and the cost of educational qualifications [ Blaug , 1965 ; Morris and Ziderman , 1971 ] . |
| 11 | For sterling and the other major currencies the ‘ effective exchange rate ’ is a general measure of the exchange value of the domestic currency , and it is calculated on such a basis . |
| 12 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 13 | It is calculated on the original cost of the assets at the following rates : |
| 14 | Unemployment Benefit is calculated on a daily basis , so that each day on which an Unemployment Benefit recipient works is a day for which he is not entitled to claim any benefit . |
| 15 | Supplementary Benefit is calculated on a weekly basis and is reduced by the equivalent of any earnings in the week that are in excess of £4 . |
| 16 | This , the grant-related expenditure ( GRE ) , is calculated on similar levels of service to be provided by all local authorities . |
| 17 | GOVERNMENT STANDARD SPENDING GRANT : The amount of Standard Spending Grant ( Otherwise known as Revenue Support Grant ) for each area is calculated on the basis that ( subject to the effect of the safety net ) a standard level of service can broadly be provided everywhere in England for the same community charge — this year £278 . |
| 18 | Interest is calculated on the daily cleared balance and paid direct to your account . |
| 19 | However Transitional Reduction is calculated on a Scheme Council Tax in accordance with the Government Regulations and not in accordance with the actual Council Tax levied by the Region and District Councils , in addition water charges are excluded from both years . |
| 20 | ( Note that a rate of discount is calculated on the face value not the purchase price . |
| 21 | The financial cost is calculated on the basis of both direct losses — as a result of reduced earnings for the timber and wood processing industries — and indirect ones in the form of the loss of the forests ' environmental and social benefits , such as their protection of soil and water resources and their tourism and amenity value . |
| 22 | The maximum permitted expenditure is calculated on the basis of a fixed sum plus a limited amount based on the number of electors : in an average-sized English county constituency in 1983 , the ceiling was approximately £4,700 ( just over $7,000 ) . |
| 23 | Spokesman Mike Newman said : ‘ The rent increases reflect the increased commercial opportunities open to tenants and is calculated on a fair open-market basis . |
| 24 | This cost is calculated on a ‘ discount to yield ’ basis at 10 per cent . |
| 25 | The interest rate is adjusted on the 23rd of each month after publication of the RPI . |
| 26 | This is taken as the RPI value 8 months before issue and each coupon is adjusted on the basis of the inflation which occurred during the half-year which ended 8 months before the coupon is due to be paid . |
| 27 | Multilateralism is the opposite of bilateralism under which a country 's trade and investment is arranged on a reciprocal basis with specific partners . |
| 28 | Because even the most inspired forecasts of how prices are going to move ca n't be right all the time , some forward purchasing is arranged on a ‘ hedging ’ basis . |
| 29 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 30 | This very specialized approach is explained on pp. 94–7 , but it is mentioned here because it sometimes uses a kind of experiment . |