Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ right ’ side of a sheet of paper refers to the side on which you can read the watermark . |
| 2 | As for the conservation aim , there will initially be a greater , not a lesser , consumption of paper , if members are to be persuaded to be content with the summary , it will be necessary to undertake what the Regulations call a ‘ relevant consultation ’ which involves sending to each member both the full accounts for the financial year and a summary financial statement plus a postage-paid card on which he can make his choice for the future . |
| 3 | We put in a new sink and Malcolm bought us a Baby Belling cooker , one electric ring on which we could heat a an of beans very , very slowly . |
| 4 | And there 's guidance on what you should eat and drink the moment you cross that line . |
| 5 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 6 | Non-tidal and desperately steep , they 'll be too hard for an old fart like me ; but round the corner is a huge , blocky , roofed sweep of rock on which I 'd reckon to stand a chance . |
| 7 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 8 | They can have a seat on which you can travel facing sideways , or facing to the front ; a platform on which you can stand , or a platform on which a wheelchair will travel . |
| 9 | It needs a heart of stone not to sympathise with a figure in this predicament — a figure on whom it may rest finally to decide whether South Africa lives in peace or at war . |
| 10 | Despite there being no mention on the sleevenotes , it 's the kind of album on which one can sense the contribution of MTV and American radio programmers retained as ‘ production consultants ’ . |
| 11 | He was a Stradivarius among performers ; a perfect instrument on which you could play anything . |
| 12 | When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient . |
| 13 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 14 | I nearly always write with an acoustic , but if it 's tuned to an open chord you will obviously have to write something different ; if you stick a capo on it you 'll write something different ; if I use an amplifier and an electric guitar I 'll write something different again . |
| 15 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 16 | Before going to the Palace to advise the Queen on whom she should summon , ‘ Bobbety ’ Salisbury called the Cabinet to his office , and simply asked , in his thin , piercing voice , ‘ Well , which is it to be , Wab or Hawold ? ’ |
| 17 | Nor do we ask the poet to combine the roles of priest and sage , or to enlighten us with revelations , or teach us the morality on which we should base our lives . |
| 18 | He was sent to be , commanded to be , the first completely human being , the first to be wholly at one with the human race , to be , therefore , wholly at risk from us , to be the victim , the scapegoat on whom we could project our guilt and our fear of being human , of being loved . |
| 19 | And although no precise mechanism for contextual retrieval has been given , the parallel with occasion setting has been noted and forms a basis on which we may build . |
| 20 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |
| 21 | The present convention is long established and provides a basis on which we can stand . |
| 22 | ‘ While the remedial action we have taken in all our major territories is proving effective , the need to contain costs and to underwrite selectively will remain the basis on which we will continue to develop our business worldwide ’ . |
| 23 | Therefore , the only basis on which we could have a property tax and valuation would be on a national banding system because that would be understandable and objective . |
| 24 | That is the basis on which I shall consider the application , and I will do so carefully . |
| 25 | ‘ If I cut my profits and prices to whatever lower level you prescribe — for I assume I shall have your guidance on what that should be — will you advise me about the basis on which I should ration the consumers of my article ? |
| 26 | In 1824 a retrospective view regretted as one of the social costs of enclosure that " the poor have no place on which they can amuse themselves in summer evenings , when the labour of the day is over , or when a holiday occurs " . |
| 27 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 28 | If anyone was to blame , it was the anti-drugs policy of successive governments , and especially president Richard Nixon 's , but that 's another talking point on which he would hold forth at the drop of a hat . |
| 29 | That is a good point on which I can give my hon. Friend not only a specific example , but an assurance . |
| 30 | This led us to concentrate our attention on what we may term ‘ main morality ’ religions where , whatever their nature , the spirits involved act as the puritanical censors of traditional morality . |