Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applications for grant are assessed on the basis of : — |
| 2 | An executive President is elected every five years , as is a unicameral National Congress with 116 members , 87 of whom are directly elected ; the remainder are elected on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 3 | Detectives working on the case are working on the theory that they died of hypothermia or suffocation or a combination of both . |
| 4 | As we shall see , many but not all liberal theories of political freedom are based on the endorsement of one or another of several principles of restraint , of which the principle of neutrality is one . |
| 5 | The purpose of the remainder of this chapter is to analyse the changing structure and composition of the national population , assess the principal dimensions of population redistribution , and examine the impact which both these sources of change are having on the geography of Britain . |
| 6 | Too late , we realised that we were breaking a taboo of British publishing : never before ( it was thought ) had a penis of any kind been printed on the cover of a mainstream magazine . |
| 7 | The moment I throttled back below 1800 rpm ( the throttle and advance/retard are interconnected on the JAP ) the ‘ fun ’ started . |
| 8 | While there are a few vines on the flat ground just south of the village , the vast majority are found on the slopes of the Butte de Saran , the northern extremity of the Côte des Blancs , and on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon , edging the suburbs of Épernay . |
| 9 | Language exercises in the second part are based on the film and commentary , with particular attention to the formation and use of tenses . |
| 10 | West Germany 's support in 1952 and 1953 for the Political Community had in part been predicated on the idea that it could resolve the Saar issue : the territory was due to become a separate ‘ European ’ area . |
| 11 | For information , the delivery and collection times for each building are published on the side of all post racks . |
| 12 | Has any decision been made on the lines to be franchised ? |
| 13 | It would be interesting to know whether humans with hippocampal damage are impaired on the equivalent of a radial arm maze . |
| 14 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 15 | Most scientists believe the infill to be lava , and though there are no features yet seen on the Moon that are definitely volcanic , floods of lava from fissures that are buried beneath their own lava are known on the Earth and could account for the mare infill on the Moon . |
| 16 | Nowadays thousands of different types of thermometer in use in science and industry are based on the principles he laid down . |
| 17 | Relics of the lead-mining and smelting industry are scattered on the moors in the vicinity . |
| 18 | In his approach , selection of neighbourhoods from a lexicon for search are made on the basis of gross visual similarity . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , both the escapement and the check of the Kober instrument are mounted on the key , and the hammer is independent of the key , mounted in a hammer rail . |
| 20 | This is because both the check and the hammer are mounted on the key , so they can not be brought closer to each other by the rotation of the key . |
| 21 | In the field of musical scholarship , the PhD and MPhil are offered on the basis of research theses of the usual type . |
| 22 | The two suites of coal samples chosen for this study were selected on the basis of their maceral analysis and maturity . |
| 23 | Mr McCallum continued that the decisions made by the Social Work Department were made on the basis of confidential information , and should that department reply to the Action Committee , he said , they might divulge information which should nut be revealed at that time . |
| 24 | Two rather pudding-faced little girls in a limousine were succeeded on the screen by a smiling George VI and Roosevelt , with wives , at the Roosevelt country estate . |
| 25 | One of the results of an active media relations service is likely to be requests for spokesmen for radio and television programmes , and special events and launches could lead to live coverage or even to a programme being made on the subject . |
| 26 | Fergus Pyle saw a Young Socialist being hit on the head by a baton and a ‘ girl in a mini skirt carrying the Plough and Stars [ flag ] wrestling with a constable , and a few men grabbing and fighting with policemen ’ . |
| 27 | The US state department has called on Cuba to co-operate with the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) to ensure safe construction and operation of a nuclear-power complex being built on the island near Cienfuegos . |
| 28 | And when standard statistical tests aimed at revealing small , regular changes in the pattern of variability were turned on the data from the meridian circle they showed an unambiguously clear trace of a periodic variation with a repeating rhythm of 76 years . |
| 29 | Religion is based on the longing for the father , and the infant 's wish for a protector to defend it against feelings of helplessness . |
| 30 | Therefore , every time an entry is made on the debit side , another entry of equal value must be made on the credit side somewhere in the books . |