Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there .
2 The starting place for Reagan was the small midwestern town of Tampico , Illinois , where he was born on 6 February 1911 .
3 He entered on 28 March 1826 , was made deacon in May 1838 and , much too young for priest 's orders , went in December 1839 to the English College , Rome , where he was ordained on 19 March 1842 .
4 The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds .
5 Nos. 345 , 346 and 347 ( 1E-3E ) survived until the Crystal Palace route closed and were delicensed on 14 February 1936. 349 ( 5E or 17E ? ) remained available for service at Erith and with that system 's own cars was transferred to Abbey Wood depôt , where it was delicensed on 28 March 1935 .
6 Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true .
7 Membership of the Institute requires appropriate practical experience as well as the written exam , so it was a double success story that she was accepted on both counts .
8 You can prove this for yourself : stand with one leg off the ground so that you are balanced on one leg , and then just close your eyes .
9 Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level .
10 We may suppose that we are mistaken on this occasion in taking it that all the ten types of conditions do obtain .
11 In essence these are stand-alone management procedures except they are printed on pink paper .
12 These manufactured crayons differ from lump sanguine in that they are based on special recipes , including China clay admixtures , to soften the natural properties of the colouring matter used .
13 For Rex and Tomlinson , the only way in which black people are likely to change their own situation is to develop forms of self-defence and self-help which are , in a sense , anti-colonialist , in that they are based on Third World models , ‘ looking to a change in the balance of power and resources between rich and poor nations as a means to their own liberation ’ ( p. 293 ) .
14 This , of course , assumes that they are rewarded on this basis as well .
15 His co-defendant , Frank " Frankie Locs " Locascio , was also convicted of murder and racketeering , although he was acquitted on one count of illegal gambling .
16 Although he was acquitted on one count of assault and another of filing a false police report , the jury had been unable to reach a decision on the charge that Powell had abused his authority through the use of excessive force .
17 But Crowe , carrying a leg injury , was the star-turn , although he was dropped on 12 before Mark Waugh ran him out .
18 threatens to ruin the day , that it 's squandered on this .
19 It is n't just that the repertory is far-removed from that of the harp 's romantic territory — and , to the best of my recollection , of a kind last explored ( more conservatively and on a modern instrument ) in an entire disc by Zabaleta ( Archiv ) over 20 years ago , nor that it is played on two pedal-less early harps , it 's the spirit with and in which it is executed .
20 THERE have been a number of articles and letters published recently about North-East drift-net fishery for salmon , which suggest that the Government 's proposal to phase out this fishery is unreasonable and that it is based on political expediency under pressure from owners of rod fisheries .
21 We should also note that it is based on certain assumptions , for example it is assumed that those who have some reason to form a pressure group will , in an open society , do so , and that the degree of governmental response will depend on the degree of pressure the group is able to exert , and that this is directly related to the group 's importance to the community .
22 For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) .
23 Efforts will be made to ensure that it is based on state-of-the-art econometric techniques and on strong and , where appropriate , innovative theoretical underpinnings .
24 I am sure that it is shared on both sides of the House , as it is from the Dispatch Box .
25 Aid , given on condition that it is spent on genuine development , can till the soil for home-grown growth .
26 It is universal in the sense that it is used on all five continents .
27 Your Committee have given further consideration to the date of the Annual General Meeting of the Society and now recommend that it be held on 4 May 1990 at 7.30 pm at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle .
28 The budget package was consistent with those of recent years in that it was based on some fairly optimistic projections concerning the future development of the economy .
29 Traditionally , local government exhibited one of the dysfunctions of bureaucracy mentioned in Chapter 3 — that it was run on departmental lines with departments such as housing , education and public works providing services in isolation from each other .
30 ’ We commended Mr Canning very highly for the work that he 's done on that particular churchyard . ’
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