Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their name suggests , utopian ideologies are based on a vision of an ideal society , a perfect social system . |
| 2 | April 8-10 Baker visits Israel at the start of his second Middle East tour ; discussions are centred on the concept of a " regional conference " , and he receives a tentative Israeli agreement to attend a " limited " conference [ see p. 38167 ] . |
| 3 | In fact , while an oil cargo could be sold and resold several times a day under the right market conditions , very few North Atlantic or Baltic general cargo shipments are sold on the water . |
| 4 | Under existing company law , accounts are prepared on the assumption that the company is a going concern , but there is no explicit requirement for directors to satisfy themselves that this is a reasonable assumption to make , by , for example , preparing a cash flow forecast . |
| 5 | Notations are made on the card as to the reasons for blacklisting , and any instructions such as ‘ refer to manager ’ , ‘ do not accept ’ or ‘ undesirable ’ should be carefully adhered to by the staff . |
| 6 | Indeed , many vertical mergers are justified on the basis of internalising such information and transaction costs with the hope of reducing such costs . |
| 7 | The government is concerned that most of the disappearances are blamed on the security forces . |
| 8 | Since aggregate demand policies are decided on the basis of the information available at the end of period t - 1 , it follows that the systematic component of aggregate demand will , as before , have no effect on real output . |
| 9 | ‘ Our policies are based on the proposition that we need to bring the enterprise economy into the inner cities . |
| 10 | The offline operations are designed on the assumption that there will not be constant manning of the physical units used to mount the offline media . |
| 11 | All the MEDIA projects are run on the basis of offering limited seed money to be used as a means of attracting further funding . |
| 12 | We will transform transport policy by ensuring , for the first time , that all road , railway , aviation , shipping and inland waterways projects are judged on the basis of their environmental , social and economic impact . |
| 13 | Expected numbers of cases are calculated on the assumption that the true rates are the same as those for England and Wales . |
| 14 | Acquisition research cases are conducted on a fee paying basis . |
| 15 | Vocabulary explores words and the learning process in the context of the learner 's thinking and feeling , and its activities are based on the premise that depth of experience and personal interaction are necessary for words to be permanently acquired . |
| 16 | The activities are recorded on the cassette , so that even non-specialist English teachers will be confident that their pupils are exposed to the correct pronunciation . |
| 17 | Meantime at Southampton University , which prides itself on having the largest optoelectronics research group in the UK with 100 scientists , its own fabrication facilities and 35 dark room labs , activities are focussed on a variety of optical fibre , laser and sensor devices . |
| 18 | The maps are based on the well- known Michelin series and courses are indicated by a numbered flag relating to a key giving the address and phone number . |
| 19 | The SYMAP system is used in this section as an example of a line-printer mapping system ; contour and choropleth maps are generated on a line-printer or dot-matrix printer ( Section 4.2.2.2 ) . |
| 20 | High-quality pen-and-ink maps are produced on a graphplotter . |
| 21 | The local authorities are represented on the district authorities , and health districts have been partly designed to facilitate liaison with local authorities . |
| 22 | But if you do n't tell them about things like banker 's order about the signature , particularly if two s two erm signatures are wanted on the cheque and the banker 's order , if the other guy 's not there you do n't go round until he 's available . |
| 23 | The partnership agreement may deal with where the band 's joint bank account is held and how many signatures are required on the account to deal with the band 's finances . |
| 24 | Their wet suits are dumped on the trailer and they change into warm clothing which we 've brought with us in a minibus . ’ |
| 25 | No special syntax forms are imposed on the searcher . |
| 26 | The codes and their meanings are described on the form . |
| 27 | The checks are done on a charge code basis , specified by the user , on the latest ‘ n ’ issues of each module . |
| 28 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 29 | In addition integrity checks are performed on the text of individual entries and the integrity of the population of entries as a whole is ensured . |
| 30 | These dot patterns are based on a 9-row by 5-column matrix on an Epson RX-80 printer ; the sixth column is left blank to form a vertical space between characters . |