Example sentences of "[verb] on the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these are arranged through a voluntary organisation called Crossroads ( address on page 143 ) which takes its name from the television series because of the attention it focussed on the needs of disabled people . |
| 2 | The sun shone equally on them both : their shadows , enormous and jagged , covered the ground between the table and the eating-house , and waves of heat beat on the tonsures of the Alban priests . |
| 3 | These components are interpreted in social terms after the analysis by considering the social characteristics of the speakers who have been sorted on the basis of their linguistic behaviour into the two groups ( periphery and core ) which emerge in Figure 6.1 . |
| 4 | However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ . |
| 5 | Czechoslovak Prime Minister Marian Calfa declared on Feb. 5 that work would recommence on the basis of the so-called " C " scheme , which envisaged the diversion of Danube waters . |
| 6 | Perkin took Mackie to shuffle on the square of dance floor adjoining the table . |
| 7 | The Greek and Turkish members of the Commission were not delegates of their respective States who could act on the instructions of the member States , but members of an administrative body . |
| 8 | A trader should never act on the presumption of retrieving his circumstances when he had become flagrantly insolvent . |
| 9 | But whether Idealism helped Liberalism and the ‘ New ’ Liberals to speak and act on the basis of a more dynamic and conceptually successful social theory , or whether , to quote Michael Freeden , ‘ Rather than Idealism giving birth to a new version of liberalism , it was liberalism that was able to assimilate certain aspects of Idealism to its mainstream and thus bestow new meaning upon Idealist tenets ’ , is not a problem of immediate relevance here . |
| 10 | The line of argument depends upon two principal features : ( a ) there is a need to produce an oven justification for practices which might be criticized and this justification must explain racial discrimination in terms of anything other than irrational preferences ; ( b ) the discourse implies that irrational preference would be morally bad and the good intentions of the speaker , and those whom the speaker justifies , are guaranteed if they are shown to differ from those who might act on the basis of irrational prejudices . |
| 11 | The constable need not have witnessed the conduct in question before he utters his warning ; he could act on the basis of a report that he received from a person who has been caused harassment , alarm or distress , or on the report of somebody who has witnessed it . |
| 12 | In a situation in which the Crown can only act on the advice of her ministers and where the Lords have been stripped of powers , the Commons is the pre-eminent part of Parliament . |
| 13 | It involves making judgements about how people will and should behave on the basis of gender stereotypes believed to be determined by their sex . |
| 14 | He had read of a distinguished army career , of a decoration won on the field of battle for bravery , his invaliding out of the army , the fight against injury , and his selfless life as an East End doctor . |
| 15 | I lay in the bath daydreaming of putters that never missed and that were made of priceless and perfect metals unknown to man , of millions of pounds won on the fairways of the world , and of even more millions made off the course . |
| 16 | Many major lessons were learnt and Lord Mountbatten has written ‘ the successful landing in Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe ’ . |
| 17 | For a party whose left wing has long complained that French price stability was won on the backs of the poor , this is a tricky moment . |
| 18 | The extent of the Guinness world conquest can be imagined from a letter sent home to Ireland by an Enniskillen Dragoon recovering in Belgium after being wounded on the battlefield of Waterloo in 1815 . |
| 19 | A development of Banfield 's explanation is provided by Johan Galtung on the basis of his own research in a similar environment . |
| 20 | He can waffle on about OPEC ad infinitum , and most clients wo n't know what the hell he 's talking about , but they 'll pretend to agree with him and will buy on the strength of what he says . |
| 21 | Or when he meditates on The Price of Bras : |
| 22 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 23 | But its policies have never been attacked on the basis of her leadership . |
| 24 | Yesterday evening I went through the village and along the road leading to the village that had been attacked on the evening of the 12th June . |
| 25 | This geological evidence raises the question whether any plants survived the entire last glacial stage ( ca. 125,000–13,500 B.P. ) in the Outer Hebrides , as Heslop Harrison ( 1948b , 1953 ) and Dahl ( 1954 , 1955 ) proposed on the basis of present-day distribution patterns . |
| 26 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 27 | Would you sa you know on the basis of erm your contact with , with tenants erm in terms of living in flats , are , are there any good points that people have made about living there t I mean |
| 28 | We fly on the wings of mutual allure , but I 'm not sure whether we 've reached the heavy confidence stage yet . ’ |
| 29 | The initial reaction had been an assumption that shares would fall on the back of the changes in Advanced Corporation Tax and tax credits on dividends which , to put it simplistically , will suck £1 billion out of Britain 's pension funds , the largest providers of equity for industry . |
| 30 | That Flaubert , still damp from skewering boys in Cairo bath-houses , should fall on the name of Nabokov 's seducer of underage American girlhood ? |