Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The High Performance Fortran FORALL is based on this development , but adds nested FORALL statements , limited function calls and multiple statement capabilities . |
| 2 | The HPF FORALL is based on this development , but adds nested FORALL statements , limited function calls and multiple statement capabilities . |
| 3 | For this reason , the draft Regulation provides that , where an SE is superimposed on two or more other companies as a new holding company , there will be an easy mechanism for the resultant merger , with both original companies being automatically dissolved and their former shareholders automatically becoming members of the SE : this is similar to a British Scheme of Arrangement approved by the High Court . |
| 4 | The historical sources tend to be accepted unless there is evidence to the contrary , by which process much of what can be read about Anglo-Saxon England is based on uncorroborated historical evidence written down hundreds of years after the events they describe . |
| 5 | The first of a new series of annual reports on attitudes , values and beliefs , Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland is based on detailed interviews carried out with a large and representative sample of adults , and presents exacting analyses of their opinions on a wide range of issues — including national identity , law and order , discrimination , the role of women , morality , poverty and AIDS . |
| 6 | Dickens is published on 3 September by Sinclair-Stevenson , £19.95 . |
| 7 | The DPN-100 is based on wide area data network systems which offer the user interconnection with multi-vendor data processing developments , including high-speed point-to-point interconnection . |
| 8 | The city of Prague is built on both sides of the beautiful river Vltava . |
| 9 | LC is based on literary warrant , as is evident in the collections of the Library of Congress . |
| 10 | The right of Lloyd 's to draw on such funds is at present being challenged in the commercial court by more than 800 members led by solicitor Michael Freeman . |
| 11 | The main incentive to write to Punch is lost on these people . |
| 12 | A city of 3.2 million people , Rangoon is surrounded on three sides by water and dominated by the glistening gold stupa of the Shwedagon . |
| 13 | If Mr Lightbown is set on young and weak Tory miscreants , they either crumble or he persists until they do . |
| 14 | Storr 's agreement with Rundell 's terminated on 18 February 1819 , by which time he had already found suitable workshops in Harrison Street , Gray 's Inn Road , where he set up once more as an independent manufacturer . |
| 15 | Moore is relying on Irish referee Stephen Hilditch , who sent off two French players in Paris last season for foul play , to lay down the law . |
| 16 | OXFAM is calling on Western governments to write off billions of dollars of foreign debt to help countries rebuild after war and faminine . |
| 17 | ‘ Jack 's put on ten years specially , ’ explains Miriam . |
| 18 | Oxford University , home of scholars since the day of Alfred the Great , was an all but religious ideal for generation on generation of humble schoolmasters and their pupils : Thomas Hardy 's tragedy of Jude is based on that assumption — to enter Oxford was to enter the Golden Kingdom . |
| 19 | ‘ Iris is checkin' on that now . |
| 20 | The Hobby is often associated with heathland , and the Dartford Warbler is found on some heaths , but neither Woodlarks nor Red-backed Shrikes , both once typical heathland birds of Sussex , have bred in recent years . |
| 21 | Holland is based on three divisions , France has four , America four , Australia two and there are also operating companies in Hong Kong and Japan . |
| 22 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 23 | If Iran is cheating on nuclear weapons , the International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to catch it at it . |
| 24 | This was provided by Eminox Ltd , with whom JM is working on such devices . |
| 25 | Our vision for Britain is founded on these values . |
| 26 | The medium obtained by the workers in California is based on oleic acid . |
| 27 | Erm it has been suggested I think Naomi 's saying on this side of the room that if there is an element of bad taste because the baby is chained up or whatever and it 's in er has had to be placed in an undignified or uncomfortable position in order to be photographed and Naomi 's question . |
| 28 | With these objectives in mind , the TSB is embarking on second generation development of both its systems , and is looking forward to their continuing to make a positive contribution to the successful operation of the business . |
| 29 | In a move towards enticing buyers into the lower end of the market , Sotheby 's announced on 28 February that it was introducing ‘ Arcade sales ’ in a new pillared gallery bridging their main galleries and the St George Street and Conduit Street galleries . |
| 30 | The threat comes at a time when BA is putting on extra flights to cover the rush , which would have seen 100,000 passengers a day at Heathrow alone . |