Example sentences of "[det] on [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain 's mind was only half on what he was saying . |
| 2 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 3 | In Lothian , we are concentrating very much on what it is essential to have achieved by 1 April 1993 . |
| 4 | Is it part of the Government 's duty to advise us all on what we should eat ? |
| 5 | This was particularly important when few persons were able to read and had to depend on what they were told and above all on what they could see . |
| 6 | Naturally , any prospective support from a journalist will depend most of all on what you sound like . |
| 7 | It is the latter on which I have based the intarsia . |
| 8 | But this time can you concentrate more on what you are going to do with your body to actually tell people via your body or give them a good idea of exactly what you mean |
| 9 | It 's the same as everything and everybody and because er they were satisfied with it , they wanted some more and they took the old lo lock off and put some more on what I 'd made , see what I mean . |
| 10 | The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not . |
| 11 | For the three cones indicated , we show to the left their individual absorbance spectra , which are typical of those on which we base our classification ; the solid curves fitted to the data are templates based on the Dartnall nomogram displaced on a log frequency abscissa . |
| 12 | And he was delighted to find that these forerunners of pop journalism had used the same skills as those on which he prided himself to stamp events into the nation 's consciousness . |
| 13 | It is open to the senior police officer present to impose conditions under this section whilst the march is in process , and on the same grounds as those on which he may act in advance . |
| 14 | Table 3.6 shows the comparison for each junction of the occasions on which it was recalled correctly with those on which it was not . |
| 15 | Some of these are very political and outside my brief , but there are those on which I want to comment . |
| 16 | Although we routed him , he subsequently appeared on a terrace above that on which we were walking . |
| 17 | The awareness on which valuation depends is that on which we act in ordinary life , seldom treatable by the strict methods of proof of the sciences . |
| 18 | The vice-chancellor and all professors , readers , lecturers and other salaried officers of the university shall vacate their office on the 30th day of September following the date on which they attain the age of 65 years unless the council … shall request any such officer to continue in office for such period as it shall from time to time determine provided that in the case of such persons holding office on 30 September 1977 , the date shall be that on which they attain the age of 67 years . |
| 19 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 20 | Either the landlord or the tenant may be entitled to determine a term certain at a date earlier than that on which it would otherwise expire by effluxion of time . |
| 21 | Jesus Christ several times appeared to her with a sweet and gracious countenance , saying to her to rouse her courage , ‘ remember my love , that the bed of the cross on which I died for love of you was harder , narrower and more painful than that on which you are now lying' ’ . |
| 22 | The only paper on your desk should be that on which you are currently working and material waiting to receive your attention for the first time . |
| 23 | " When you can measure what you are speaking of , and express it in numbers , you know that on which you are discoursing . |
| 24 | Had he been , or was he about to be , briefed for a mission earlier than that on which he actually set out ? |
| 25 | He was in an iron bed which resembled that on which he slept in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , but it had on one side a sad leatherette-and-wooden armchair and on the other a small white cabinet . |
| 26 | He could deal with people , erm he could communicate with people , he was always there to help with our problems and I 'm sure he felt that he could help erm you know the community and and the beat that on which he was a home beat officer . |
| 27 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 28 | The cross of Jesus is God 's final and decisive ‘ No ! ’ to all that : it leaves us literally nothing of our own on which we can rely . |