Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn of the Century Saltash was largely the epitome of Victorian respectability where ‘ many neat and tasteful villas and cottages have been built on the most interesting and commanding sites ’ . |
| 2 | This policy assumption seems to have been naive , and to have been built on the extravagantly high hopes of the public health model of intervention . |
| 3 | Had the inconceivable happened , a relisting would surely have been granted on the most fundamental ground imaginable — a failure of the court to give judgment on issues properly raised before it and essential to a disposal of the case . |
| 4 | They are based on the very unsystematic police reports about local incidents , and much depends upon the criteria used to identify politically significant disturbances of the peace . |
| 5 | These courses are based on the highly successful format of our Executive Course I. The topics and vocabulary areas are taken from the various specialised fields ; functional language is presented in relevant contexts and related to professional needs . |
| 6 | It was this nouveaux riches strategy which so jarred with those such as Veblen who had been raised on the more general American ethic that work itself was a highly moral activity in which pride should be taken , as in the case of Weber 's Protestant ethic which valued utility and austerity . |
| 7 | My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question . |
| 8 | It is only to be hoped that dispersals of any kind are restricted on the most severe criteria , and that money for acquisitions , storage and , perhaps most important , staff for cataloguing is not stinted . |
| 9 | In this tradition , before this development , the sociology of culture had significantly been concentrated on the already institutionalized areas of religion and education . |
| 10 | However , particular emphasis will be placed on the more recent techniques designed to study the differentiation of cells in their normal environment in the intact embryo . |
| 11 | With this in mind perhaps an emphasis needs to be placed on the more practical application of embalming and a greater value placed on course examinations and assessment . |
| 12 | ‘ IT IS A REGION more difficult to traverse than the Alps or the Himalayas , but if strength and courage are sufficient for the task , by a year 's toil a concept of sublimity can be obtained never again to be equalled on the hither side of Paradise . ’ |
| 13 | The Convention can not be invoked in the English courts to strike down ministerial or bureaucratic actions which imperil free speech : such actions can only be attacked on the very limited " judicial review " basis offered by domestic law , ie if they are unreasonable , irrational or perverse . |
| 14 | She looked at the tyre and saw at once that even if there had been someone about who could have helped her , the tyre could n't be mended on the spot-there was a long split in the outer cover . |
| 15 | The consumer programme shows no sign of losing momentum , indeed difficult decisions have to be made on the most effective use of resources available . |
| 16 | Improved polished stone implements , such as axes , meant that a greater impact could be made on the naturally forested wildwood landscape . |
| 17 | It originally had been suggested that one ball only might be used on the supposedly lusher New Zealand grounds . |
| 18 | Standards of typography will rarely be a decisive factor in selection , but there is no doubt that small print is disliked by many readers — including those with good eyesight — and should be avoided on the relatively rare occasions that alternatives are available ( for instance , with the different editions of popular classics , or with light fiction , where the choice is very wide and content is less variable ) . |
| 19 | One might suppose that to be based on the completely illogical argumentall persons carrying out judicial functions must act fairly , therefore all persons who must act fairly are carrying out judicial functions . |
| 20 | In the final analysis you will have to make a decision that should be based on the most objective assessment you can make but relying to a certain extent on your own instinct and intuition . |
| 21 | As a result of the exercise to be carried out during 1992 , the assessments of research quality will be based on the most up-to-date data . |
| 22 | It will be based on the exceptionally rich sequence of court rolls for the fourteenth century for the lordship of Dyffryn Clwyd , i.e. the town of Ruthin and its extensive rural hinterland . |
| 23 | If household income falls short of full employment income ( Y < Y * ; ) for Keynesian reasons , no one would suggest that household decisions will continue to be based on the palpably false premise that households will be able to sell as much of their labour services as they would ideally like . |
| 24 | This meant that the clinics were run , in the main , by trained medical officers whose special interest and expertise could be concentrated on the sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 25 | Around two thirds of promotional budgets are now reckoned to be spent on the less glitzy marketing activities such as direct marketing and sales promotion . |
| 26 | Otherwise it should be stored on the most rapidly accessible device available . |
| 27 | Now that you are completing the preliminary studies and will shortly be embarking on the more complicated part of the syllabus , I feel that , at this stage , it would be of benefit to give you the following lessons in an endeavour to press home to you the importance and value of your continued perseverance . |
| 28 | Their effects can not be isolated from the HLCA system ; in essence it has been the availability of substantial levels of grant plus the guarantee of HLCAs on the increased numbers of animals which can be kept on the agriculturally improved grassland , which together have constituted a substantial incentive for such capital improvements . |
| 29 | SVR are to be congratulated on the recently opened station buildings at Kidderminster and indeed on the whole of their operation . |
| 30 | If it is largely the public-school spirit which has made England great in the past , any means by which a similar spirit may be fostered in the boys who leave the elementary schools at the very age when the sons of the monied classes are entering on the most valuable years of their school career , is of incalculable importance . |