Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Insulin is packaged inside β cells as the precursor proinsulin , which is cleaved on secretion into C peptide and insulin . |
| 2 | The generation of knowledge from practical activity is the basis of science in contrast to ideology which is based on speculation , ideas generating ideas : |
| 3 | Er all I can say chairman is that the County Council is is working within the approved structure plan strategy which is based on restraint , based primarily on housing restraint but I think that 's what the County Council has done in its er employment land proposals is to set certain parameters which appear to us to really reasonably meet requirements of this authority 's resident population . |
| 4 | You are creating a system within the countryside which is based on inequality . |
| 5 | I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman has said , because it enables me to explain that proposals for a local income tax relating it to ability to pay have been rejected in Committee and on Report , so we are now in the business of trying to improve this unfair tax which is based on property . |
| 6 | The importance of The increasing importance of market segmentation market segmentation as a marketing tool can in part be explained by : market fragmentation ; the development of retailer power ( which is based on concentration , and on the relative advantage obtained from centralised bulk buying ) ; the development of volume based markets for commodity-type products ( such as plant baked bread ) . |
| 7 | The church is to be distinctive from the rest of the world ; people around us are familiar with a way of life where rank and wealth matter , and people want to achieve what they think matters — only to find that it does n't satisfy them ; God 's people are to have a way of life which is based on equality in God 's sight , and not be measured in terms of social standing . |
| 8 | The only other major commodity which is based on lump sum rates regardless of quantities used , is water and the Water Companies are slowly moving over to a metered system in order to improve the discipline of use . |
| 9 | And thirdly they argue that a model formulated by Japanese scientists to estimate the numbers of sperm whales , which is based on age of whale at sexual maturity , offers better evidence about whale stocks than the model developed by the International Institute for Economic Development , which uses length of whale ; yet the Japanese model does not fit the data as well as the IIED model . |
| 10 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 11 | For instance ice which is formed on salt water is substantially fresh , to the great convenience of Polar explorers . |
| 12 | ‘ Not like Ashby Chase , which is built on rock , with the lake and moat put in later . |
| 13 | Bravo and MacDonald-Bravo described a soluble form of PCNA , which is lost on fixation in organic solvents and does not participate DNA replication , and an insoluble form , which is associated with the sites of ongoing DNA synthesis and is expressed particularly during S phase and is detectable by immunofluorescence . |
| 14 | The church mentioned above , which is sited on top of a steep hill , was built in 1735 and has beautiful inlaid wooden alters of that era . |
| 15 | As instructed , erm I present a case which is unified on behalf of all the bodies and persons I represent . |
| 16 | The generation which designed cantilevered structures for Jane Russell , had Marilyn looking permanently over-ripe and arranged a sexual encounter between Jane Fonda and machinery , has given way to a society which is hooked on fitness . |
| 17 | With regard to traditional conflicts of interest , which are also liable to be efficiency-reducing , there is little reason to think that the separation of ownership and control has contributed significantly to the scope for management self-dealing , but it does pose problems for the effectiveness of the mechanisms that regulate it , the design of which is premised on shareholder involvement . |
| 18 | Organization life which lacks this , which is premised on mistrust , is riddled with cholesterol clogging and incapacitating the system , like an epidemic of modern organizational life . |
| 19 | ‘ We believe that in tumours this particular gene , which is located on chromosome 17 , is faulty , so that it can not function normally and a cancer develops . |
| 20 | Last winter two pesticide distributors , Cleanacres and Roberts and Hewitt , were blacklisted for selling an imported herbicide Curb 50W , which is used on oilseed rape . |
| 21 | The scheme , which is administered on behalf of the Department of National Heritage by ABSA ( The Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts ) , seeks to encourage business sponsorship of arts organisations by providing financial awards to arts organisations to add to funds raised through business sponsorship . |
| 22 | Such behaviour is seen as taking place within ‘ the basic unit of society ’ , the family , ‘ which is founded on marriage ’ . |
| 23 | It is anathema to the British liberal-parliamentary system , which is founded on debate and opposition . |
| 24 | One example of this is a black inlay material known as niello , which is found on gold . |
| 25 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 26 | The principle behind the act is that marriage should be regarded as a partnership which is dissolved on divorce allowing both parties to have a ‘ clean break ’ and go their separate ways . |
| 27 | The Football Association might now look into the incident , which is captured on film . |
| 28 | Describing herself as something of a ‘ social victim ’ , she has temporarily torn herself away from urban distractions in favour of time and space at a ‘ country abode ’ , where she is working on material for a second album , due in November . |
| 29 | She is surviving on family credit and before the actor stepped in had no idea how she would buy Christmas presents for her sons . |
| 30 | Dr Terry Sloan from Lancaster University , who is working on LEP , said : ‘ Everyone is overjoyed . |