Example sentences of "on the [noun] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 2 | We do not intend to set up an alternative formal system ( uninterpreted in itself ) to act as the interpretation for our syntax , and we shall not just specify patterns of co-occurring word classes on the supposition that causal factors are described by exhibiting the phenomena they govern ( or , worse , that the two are the same ) ; this mistake , which has been widely made , reverses the logical priorities — rather as if one were to answer an enquiry about the underlying geological structure of a region by offering aerial photographs of the terrain . |
| 3 | The temptation to equate the two positions relies apparently on two things : on the fact that in each case we have an adjective and a noun or noun phrase , and on the supposition that attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives all share the referential locus of the head noun to which they are related . |
| 4 | Positivism is the name given to the philosophy based on the principle that all claims to knowledge must be scientifically provable — there must be " positive proof " . |
| 5 | The Government 's post-1987 initiatives have , to some extent , reflected a diagnosis based on the need for better management — though on the principle that central authorities can provide a firmer grip than local ones — but combined with an anti-collectivist belief in the restorative powers of capitalism . |
| 6 | In other cases the courts have relied on the principle that private rights of property should not be taken without compensation unless there exists clear authority in the statute . |
| 7 | Reflexology is based on the principle that specific areas of the feet correspond to different organs , glands and parts of the body . |
| 8 | The liberal ( middle-class ) democracies established in Europe had , despite their generally limited franchise , to base their constitutions on the principle that ultimate authority was vested in the people . |
| 9 | Working on the principle that each person 's experience is equally valuable , it then follows that if ten people ponder a decision , it will be ten times better . |
| 10 | Resistivity surveying is based on the principle that underground features such as masonry walls have a high resistance to an electric current , whereas filled-in features , such as ditches or pits , have a lower resistance . |
| 11 | They work on the principle that most people pay up if they 're pestered for long enough . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm working on the principle that most people are okay unless they get muroculous with drink , when they become arse-holes ; you 're behaving like an arse-hole now , so maybe drink 'll make you okay . ’ |
| 13 | grant to the Scottish local authorities , basing local accountability on the principle that local councillors will determine how that money should be spent ? |
| 14 | The other stream is based on the notion that such payments have been made under compulsion , the relative positions and powers of the two parties being unequal . |
| 15 | Goodwill through golf , Hopkins ' idea , is based not on money , but on the notion that little-known golfers would broaden their horizons , and stretch their abilities , by matching shots with the stars . |
| 16 | Elsewhere , Duncan and I have made an attempt to overcome these problems by putting forward a conceptual view of local politics which stresses the social relations involved , which highlights the importance of the locality , and which is based on the notion that local state institutions can be at once an agent of , and an obstacle to , central demands ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | Current practice so far is based on the notion that some sponsorship is harmless . |
| 18 | Biological ( or physiological ) explanations are based on the notion that some individuals are predisposed to criminal behaviour because of their genetic make-up . |
| 19 | Identification , even by experts , is largely a process of elimination based on the knowledge that certain countries and individual weaving groups tend to produce only certain types of design . |
| 20 | During the first day the new members of the group followed the programme , which focused on the barriers that disabled people face in society . |
| 21 | Ray Morgan was chairman of Cheltenham magistrates on the day that 26 year old , Andrew Hagans appeared before him in July last year , charged with raping a woman in the town . |
| 22 | The father of the man accused of the M50 murder told a jury yesterday he advised his son to use the motorway on the day that pregnant housewife Marie Wilks vanished . |
| 23 | It 's asked three unemployed graduates of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education to plan and run an event on the day that New Release is launched . |
| 24 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 25 | News of the arrests comes on the day that another pensioner underwent emergency surgery following a separate vicious robbery . |
| 26 | Not all lawyers , of course , actually engage in advocacy but their work is predicated on the possibility that competing interpretations of fact and of law arising from competing interests will have to be represented and argued in court or tribunal . |
| 27 | Where previous discussions about the Britishness of British films had been coloured by official concerns about national status , and cinema 's role in boosting American economic might , filmmakers increasingly focused on the possibility that good stories might be British stories . |
| 28 | They checked on the possibility that saccadic movements made with the eyes closed , or in the dark , might be slowed , or that the velocity may then be independent of length of saccade , and found that they were not : that is , waking eye movements with eyes closed , or in the dark , are the same as with eyes opened and in the light . |
| 29 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 30 | In all cases , save possibly one , this intervention by way of prohibition or certiorari is based on the proposition that such powers have been conferred on the decision maker on the underlying assumption that the powers are to be exercised only within the jurisdiction conferred , in accordance with fair procedures and , in a Wednesbury sense ( Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |