Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applications for grant are assessed on the basis of : — |
| 2 | An executive President is elected every five years , as is a unicameral National Congress with 116 members , 87 of whom are directly elected ; the remainder are elected on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 3 | Detectives working on the case are working on the theory that they died of hypothermia or suffocation or a combination of both . |
| 4 | As we shall see , many but not all liberal theories of political freedom are based on the endorsement of one or another of several principles of restraint , of which the principle of neutrality is one . |
| 5 | The purpose of the remainder of this chapter is to analyse the changing structure and composition of the national population , assess the principal dimensions of population redistribution , and examine the impact which both these sources of change are having on the geography of Britain . |
| 6 | Too late , we realised that we were breaking a taboo of British publishing : never before ( it was thought ) had a penis of any kind been printed on the cover of a mainstream magazine . |
| 7 | The moment I throttled back below 1800 rpm ( the throttle and advance/retard are interconnected on the JAP ) the ‘ fun ’ started . |
| 8 | While there are a few vines on the flat ground just south of the village , the vast majority are found on the slopes of the Butte de Saran , the northern extremity of the Côte des Blancs , and on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon , edging the suburbs of Épernay . |
| 9 | Italy 's ills of corruption , maladministration and government irresponsibility are blamed on the extreme form of proportional representation brought in as antidote to Mussolini 's dictatorship . |
| 10 | Language exercises in the second part are based on the film and commentary , with particular attention to the formation and use of tenses . |
| 11 | West Germany 's support in 1952 and 1953 for the Political Community had in part been predicated on the idea that it could resolve the Saar issue : the territory was due to become a separate ‘ European ’ area . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For information , the delivery and collection times for each building are published on the side of all post racks . |
| 14 | Has any decision been made on the lines to be franchised ? |
| 15 | It would be interesting to know whether humans with hippocampal damage are impaired on the equivalent of a radial arm maze . |
| 16 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 17 | Deffenbacher 's argument is that those studies which show enhanced memory in arousing circumstances are operating on the ascending portion of the inverted-U function , while those which show impairment are operating on the descending portion of the curve associated with high arousal levels . |
| 18 | I er see the the way the the two parts of the photograph are joined on the |
| 19 | Most scientists believe the infill to be lava , and though there are no features yet seen on the Moon that are definitely volcanic , floods of lava from fissures that are buried beneath their own lava are known on the Earth and could account for the mare infill on the Moon . |
| 20 | Models whose bases lie under the rest of the template are hit on the D6 roll of 4+ . |
| 21 | Remaining models under the template are hit on the D6 score of a 4+ . |
| 22 | Models whose bases lie under the rest of the template are hit on the D6 roll of a 4+ . |
| 23 | Remaining models under the template are hit on the D6 score of a 4+ . |
| 24 | As we have suggested , Marxist approaches to crime are based on the wider Marxist theory of society . |
| 25 | Nowadays thousands of different types of thermometer in use in science and industry are based on the principles he laid down . |
| 26 | Leaders of Britain 's freight industry are calling on the European Commission to help free U K truck drivers trapped by road blocks on the French Spanish border . |
| 27 | Relics of the lead-mining and smelting industry are scattered on the moors in the vicinity . |
| 28 | Reminders of all the matters to be dealt with on behalf of a buyer before completion are itemised on the pre-completion agenda ( p226 ) with any items added that are peculiar to a particular transaction . |
| 29 | In his approach , selection of neighbourhoods from a lexicon for search are made on the basis of gross visual similarity . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , both the escapement and the check of the Kober instrument are mounted on the key , and the hammer is independent of the key , mounted in a hammer rail . |