Example sentences of "on [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the first payment should be on or after the date on which the Deed of Covenant is signed . |
| 2 | To achieve this most hotels have a number of systems , all provided by different suppliers , on which the staff come to rely totally , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Historically , Scotland was always perceived as the premier West Coast market on which the case for electrification from Weaver Junction to Glasgow ( Motherwell ) was made . |
| 4 | Lacan offers us a new conception both of science and of truth , and asks us to abandon many of the procedures for verification or falsification on which the credibility of scientific enquiry traditionally rests . |
| 5 | Try as the leadership might to erase what happened , nothing can be done to change the one fact on which the future of China turns : the men who ordered the assault on Tiananmen Square will surely die long before the youth they ordered to be killed . |
| 6 | That lack of authorisation by councillors was one of the four grounds on which the auditor was trying to prove the transactions were unlawful . |
| 7 | Three weeks on , The Paradise Club proves the contrary : it is now looking less like a showroom model than a motor on which the clock has been wound back and the polish is beginning to fade . |
| 8 | One of the important aspects of country house building that is rarely demonstrated is the basic structure — your photograph shows , in admirable clarity , the arrangement of load-bearing walls ( and , incidentally , a precarious water tank in the roof ) which are the bones on which the skin and organs are built . |
| 9 | There were some issues on which the left was always trounced — over the Militant Tendency , for example . |
| 10 | A common feeling among Tory MPs is that on matters such as the resurrection of Christ , on which the Bishops should be certain , they are full of doubt ; but on matters such as the precise level of the public sector borrowing requirement , they are vociferous in their certainty . |
| 11 | But British Telecom Mobile Communications is introducing a transatlantic paging service based on frequency-hopping technology — the first on which the same pager can used in either the UK or the US . |
| 12 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 13 | A block of four 1918 24-cent stamps featuring an early aeroplane , from a famous sheet of 100 on which the aeroplane was printed upside down , sold for $1.1m ( £705,128 ) , against an estimate of $600,000-$800,000 , to an American broadcasting executive . |
| 14 | In contrast , the price of ‘ average ’ properties , those on which the Halifax has lent mortgages , has risen by only about 85 per cent . |
| 15 | But by the end of the 1980s record balance-of-payments deficits , rising inflation , a weakened pound , and failure to impose the monetary disciplines on which the government had prided itself , suggested that most of the old problems were still present . |
| 16 | If rumour speaks true , the pattern on which the plan was based was obsolescent before the second five-year phase of the plan was far advanced . |
| 17 | Although the minister is uniquely and personally responsible to Parliament for everything — everything , that is , outside clinical decisions — which is done or left undone in the health service , he administers it through a hierarchy of non-elective bodies on which the professions are strongly represented and are influential more than in proportion to their numbers . |
| 18 | The unitary monarchy , though itself ( as I have argued ) fictitious , on which the Statute of Westminster had insisted in 1931 , had now vanished . |
| 19 | Miracles and dramatic visions , wonderful and fearful , are the stuff on which the faith has survived . |
| 20 | The most significant change from the Green Paper was that SERPS would not be abolished but scaled down ; the proportion of earnings on which the pension would be based was reduced from 25 to 20 per cent . |
| 21 | So it was that the agreement on which the first National Government was formed was ignored by the King , who granted a dissolution under conditions which broke both the letter and the spirit of the agreement . |
| 22 | The squabbling in Cabinet over the formula on which the National Government was to fight the election was , in reality , a form of shadow-boxing : for , whatever the formula , it would be interpreted by those who had the power to interpret it , that is , the Conservative and protectionist majority . |
| 23 | The premise on which the donors worked was that large amounts of capital could be absorbed by small African countries because their need for productive investment was demonstrably high . |
| 24 | There were only two other cars at the front and they rolled to a stop alongside the plinth on which the antique cannon stood pointing out to sea like some deep-chested mongrel . |
| 25 | It is not an adaptation of society as a whole , and , Marx and Engels argue , it therefore has to hide the exploitation on which the dominant class relies . |
| 26 | Only after a time do the principles on which the family is based — private property and slavery — come into conflict with the community and its commonality ; this occurs only when the family begins to move into the political domain . |
| 27 | The reason is that he began to seen the economic concepts on which the society of his time was based , such concepts as value , price , property , and above all , labour , as the nineteenth-century equivalent of religion . |
| 28 | They were seeking throughout their work to show that the concepts on which the edifice of capitalism was built , the concepts of the State , of property , of the nature of men and women , of marriage , of the family , of labour , of trade , and of capital itself , were not unshakeable givens based on such ahistorical phenomena as the nature of man , or logic , or god . |
| 29 | Often they are questions on which the hierarchy of the family ( in so far as it exists in Britain ) has to be consulted . |
| 30 | The all-new Sparrow Mk3 , on which the company has invested so much , looks indistinguishable to the layman from the Mk2 , which was little changed from the Mk1 . |