Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all it is important to realize that the anthropology on which the eighteenth-century philosopher-scientists relied reflected an indiscriminate mixture of biological and sociological concerns . |
| 2 | The terms of reference show some overlap with those of the Crowther Committee , there was considerable overlap in the pool of CACE research on which the two committees drew , and some similarity in the recommendations offered ( see 1959 Crowther ) . |
| 3 | Under normal circumstances , third party solicitors will , in response to intimation of interest , forward a letter detailing fully their clients ' contentions in respect of both the circumstances surrounding the accident and the grounds of fault on which the third party intends to rely . |
| 4 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 5 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 6 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 7 | Part of the celebration of the feast consisted of a learned discussion in which passages were read from the Koran on which the assembled scholars gave . |
| 8 | It is not an adaptation of society as a whole , and , Marx and Engels argue , it therefore has to hide the exploitation on which the dominant class relies . |
| 9 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 10 | This is one issue on which the hon. Gentleman might have commenced his supplementary question by saying that most people in Wales are pleased with the way in which the Government have fought for the British lamb industry as a whole and that Welsh consignments have been fought for , too . |
| 11 | But in one of those reeds is hidden a girl on whom the starry sky would gaze with smiles , for she is the most beautiful creature on the whole round of the earth . " |
| 12 | It had been run nose-first into the boat house where it lay like a huge , sleek beast in an undersized pen , the deep V of the forward end tucked under the gallery on which the three of them were standing . |
| 13 | This is the basis on which the various elements in the answers to the questions given on page 145 have been labelled as given or new . |
| 14 | Without qualifying their opinion , auditors Hacker Young draw attention in their report to the basis on which the industrial textiles group 's accounts have been prepared ; they have been drawn up on a going concern basis . |
| 15 | These are factors which provide the basis on which the new environmental security regime can be built , although , sadly , it will probably take more than one catastrophe to shake the world into acceptance of the sacrifices of sovereignty and treasure which will be needed to make it effective . |
| 16 | He justified the ‘ legal regulation of the problem ’ as the only way of heading off the likelihood of spontaneous ‘ defensive actions of the enraged population ’ , and claimed the German government had been compelled ‘ by the idea of being able , through a once and for all secular solution , of perhaps creating a basis on which the German people might possibly be able to find a tolerable relationship with the Jewish people ’ . |
| 17 | Experts in the held are questioning the basis on which the satanic abuse war is being fought . |
| 18 | This information is then analysed and translated into an advertising strategy , which provides the basis on which the creative team will work in devising the advertising . |
| 19 | I kept my eye on him the whole time . ’ |
| 20 | It is the point on which the academic community turns , and it is by their research performance that academics take on their professional identity and are judged by their peers . |
| 21 | I have great sympathy with the premise on which the hon. Gentleman bases his question , but such matters are best determined by individual employers and their work forces and not by the imposition of general blanket rules that may not be appropriate to individual countries or companies . |
| 22 | The HAT has purchased extra land at each site on which the first phase of new houses will be built . |
| 23 | Manners replied that the Select Committee had found no difference between Gothic and Classic , ‘ as regards economy , commodiousness and public utility ’ , and his choice of the Gothic design was governed ‘ by the site on which the Foreign Office was to be placed ’ . |
| 24 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 25 | That is the fruitful ambiguity on which the new fiction was based . |
| 26 | But by the time the delegation set out for Paris , the French Draft Constitution had already been rejected — and with it the principle of free consent on which the French Union was to be based — and while he was still en route to France Ho learned that a Provisional Government of Cochinchina had been announced . |
| 27 | This was reflected in the literary diet on which the radical subculture fed . |
| 28 | The first is a group on which the chosen mechanism elements will ultimately be drawn in their correct operating positions . |
| 29 | There were only two other cars at the front and they rolled to a stop alongside the plinth on which the antique cannon stood pointing out to sea like some deep-chested mongrel . |
| 30 | Why should I assume that in combining imperatives with propositions about other persons I can afford to ignore , while taking for granted the analogizing on which the mere use of a common name depends , the operations of assimilating to and differentiating from myself without which the propositions would not even have their full meaning ? |