Example sentences of "[adj] on [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These brought to centre stage their concern with media ‘ reality ’ : the public is dependent on what the mass media disseminate ‘ yet under no circumstances can the picture replicate the world in its full complexity ’ . |
| 2 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 3 | One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine which asserts , that the true electric current on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend , is not the same thing as the current of conduction , but that the time variation of the electric displacement must be taken into account in estimating the total movement of electricity . |
| 4 | In the first , direct taxes are seen as being paid by those on whom the formal incidence sits , e.g. income tax , whereas indirect taxes are those that are shifted so that the formal or statutory and actual or effective incidence diverges . |
| 5 | This gradual variation of the gradient is effected without disturbing the horizontality of the lift dock by providing at least at the upper part of the incline two or more sets of rails for each carriage supporting the dock , the said duplicate sets of rails being in different alignment and gradually assuming different levels , the wheels of each carriage being adapted to travel thereon so that on the diminished gradient the leading wheels will travel on rails at a different level from those on which the trailing wheels travel , the duplication of the rails and their difference of level being variously arranged according to circumstances . |
| 6 | How then are we to find a conception of mental states other than that on which the sceptical argument trades ? |
| 7 | The important point is that on which the hon. Gentleman put his finger — the quality of housing in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | But British Telecom Mobile Communications is introducing a transatlantic paging service based on frequency-hopping technology — the first on which the same pager can used in either the UK or the US . |