Example sentences of "is [vb pp] on [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An upperplate margin is formed by crust lying above the detachment fault while a lower-plate margin is developed on deeper crustal rocks lying below the detachment zone and which may be overlain by faulted fragments of the upper plate . |
| 2 | In the third year the student chooses two branches of Chemistry to an advanced level , and is examined on all three branches . |
| 3 | Our ability to deliver an effective service is built on four simple principles : |
| 4 | The machine seems to need neither worship nor fear to make it run ; it is built on rational philosophical principles and sustained by money , labour , steam and steel . |
| 5 | Stockholm , often called the Venice of the north , is built on 15 small islands , all linked by bridges . |
| 6 | The success of the student management system , and the many subsystems that now pervade the management and administration of the Polytechnic , is built on these close links . |
| 7 | The master copy is made on special coated paper which has a glossy surface on one side . |
| 8 | There are three different rates of income tax : the new 20 per cent rate introduced in the 1992 Budget which applies to the first £2,000 of your taxable income ; the 25 per cent basic rate tax which applies to the next slice of taxable income between £2,000 and £23,700 ; and the 40 per cent higher rate tax which is levied on all taxable income over £23,700 . |
| 9 | We welcome the positive moves of recent weeks on economic and political reform , but further effort is needed on key economic issues . |
| 10 | The Teacher Placement Service is founded on four basic principles : |
| 11 | The Medicines Information Bill is founded on two main principles : that those who keep secrets should not have the last word on where secrecy begins and ends and that openness should be the rule and secrecy the exception . |
| 12 | The co-operation is founded on strong mutual interests , with each body sharing a commitment to training which : |
| 13 | The second move which might be made to counter the relativistic flavour of my earlier argument would be to argue that , despite the changing discipline-bound truth criteria , the intellectual enterprise as a whole is founded on certain context-independent truth criteria . |
| 14 | It is universal in the sense that it is used on all five continents . |
| 15 | The upper dentition is borne on two maxillary tooth-plates , each of which has several rows of teeth and is bisected by a deep longitudinal groove ( figure 1 ) . |
| 16 | He says the development is based on advanced new technology which he declines to name but promises to show in July at the Sun Expo in Anaheim , California . |
| 17 | The UBR is based on new Inland Revenue valuations of commercial Rate properties undertaken in 1988 . |
| 18 | Porosity nomenclature is based on two classic papers : Choquette & pray ( 1970 ) and Schmidt , McDonald & platt ( 1977 ) . |
| 19 | The best practice approach adopted by Lucas Automotive is based on two simple premises : that in any activity carried out by two or more groups of people , one group will be better at it than the others ; and that there will be real benefits to be achieved by the other groups learning from the experience of the ‘ best ’ group . |
| 20 | The Society 's action , initiated after taking advice from leading counsel , is based on two main grounds . |
| 21 | Etymologically , as Fromm reminds us ( 1973 : 189 ) , the English word is based on two Latin words , ad and gradior , with the combined sense of ‘ movement towards ’ . |
| 22 | It will only change when the psychology behind it has changed ; and this psychology is based on two die-hard principles which together constitute almost the last vestiges of his own Indian-ness . |
| 23 | Nor can generalised criticism be justified if it is based on one isolated incident . |
| 24 | ‘ The IS-LM model is based on comparative static analysis and ignores the dynamic processes of a modern economy . ’ |
| 25 | Astrology is based on many empirical observations about the positions of stars and planets , and about certain vague characteristics of people born at particular times and places . |
| 26 | Each unit covers a specific area of finance and is based on unsimplified written extracts from The Economist magazine and recorded extracts from the BBC 's International Money programme . |
| 27 | It will be obvious by now that my account of the emergence of black sportsmen runs contrary to such views and I can not accept that blacks are ‘ made for physical things ’ any more than I can that their continued failure in more formal academic realms is based on inadequate intellectual resources . |
| 28 | LTQ is based on five processual mechanisms : standards and measure-ment ; reward and recognition ; training ; communications ; and the use of senior management as role models for the process . |
| 29 | Marley 's Classico system is based on four individual blocks . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , a recently completed tower in New York is based on early nineteenth century designs for Chippendale furniture . |