Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The tax year runs from 6 April to 5 April the following year , so the amount of tax you pay in any one year is calculated on the income you receive ( or are deemed to have received ) between these two dates .
2 A student 's weekly expenditure — which is calculated on the basis of the price of a basket of goods in May — amounts to £160.13 .
3 CGT for an individual is calculated on the basis that the first £6300 net gains are exempt , and gains over £6300 attract a tax rate of 30 per cent .
4 The economic effects of a service such as education are clearly impossible to quantify accurately , and attempts by economists to calculate returns on investment in education are laden with many assumptions and are unavoidably narrow in approach ; in particular , the financial return is calculated on the basis of a ratio between income and the cost of educational qualifications [ Blaug , 1965 ; Morris and Ziderman , 1971 ] .
5 GOVERNMENT STANDARD SPENDING GRANT : The amount of Standard Spending Grant ( Otherwise known as Revenue Support Grant ) for each area is calculated on the basis that ( subject to the effect of the safety net ) a standard level of service can broadly be provided everywhere in England for the same community charge — this year £278 .
6 The financial cost is calculated on the basis of both direct losses — as a result of reduced earnings for the timber and wood processing industries — and indirect ones in the form of the loss of the forests ' environmental and social benefits , such as their protection of soil and water resources and their tourism and amenity value .
7 The maximum permitted expenditure is calculated on the basis of a fixed sum plus a limited amount based on the number of electors : in an average-sized English county constituency in 1983 , the ceiling was approximately £4,700 ( just over $7,000 ) .
8 This figure is calculated on the assumption that an album retails for just under £7 .
9 ( Note that a rate of discount is calculated on the face value not the purchase price .
10 This is taken as the RPI value 8 months before issue and each coupon is adjusted on the basis of the inflation which occurred during the half-year which ended 8 months before the coupon is due to be paid .
11 Emphasis is placed on the processes by which medical practitioners attempted to further themselves both professionally and socially , through intra-professional activities and interaction with local ‘ elite groups .
12 The way in which they do that is to abolish the old tenancies and to introduce long leases under which full repairing responsibility is placed on the tenants .
13 The fifth card is placed on the t of mutus and the sixth on the t of dedit .
14 In theory , at least , this will relieve the tremendous burden that is placed on the micro to both run the desktop publishing program and control the printer .
15 A heavy burden is placed on the magistrates to protect individual liberty from the abuse of police power .
16 When this process is completed , the plate is ready for printing and is placed on the bed of the etching press .
17 With increase in overburden pressure , more stress is placed on the grain to grain contacts and compaction starts to proceed by chemical processes .
18 A Ward of Forbiddance spell is placed on the door .
19 In many cases it is easy to demonstrate that the tonic stress is placed on the word that is in some sense the ‘ most important ’ , as in : She went to Scotland
20 The focus is placed on the user 's information needs and overall searching behaviour in order to build a conceptual framework for qualitative research on the use and evaluation of online catalogues .
21 The Scales are in the Cruachan Caves , in the Court of the Soul Eaters , and every soul I offer up is placed on the Scales .
22 The patient is placed on the toilet or commode every two or three hours , and the carer carefully explains why each time .
23 Their year is split up equally between Woodwork , Metalwork and Log Book production and great stress is placed on the mastery of learning .
24 Once a child 's name is placed on the register an inter-agency child protection plan must be formulated and a key worker appointed with responsibility for implementing this plan .
25 If the child in question is placed on the Child Protection Register , review conferences must be held regularly to monitor the child 's safety and to review his or her registration .
26 As in a lot of one-design racing , class rules ensure that the emphasis is placed on the ability and performance of the crew : owners are not allowed to make modifications to their boats .
27 Emphasis is placed on the responsibility of individuals to provide for their own welfare needs and those of their dependants .
28 Matrix calculus is introduced via the Sylvester expansion theorem and considerable emphasis is placed on the matrix eigenvalue problem .
29 The other key aspects of teaching that it is useful to record are the level of demand that is placed on the pupil(s) at each stage and the amount of guidance that the teacher provides .
30 Yet , when frog surface layer is placed on the newt near the mouth region , suckers develop in just the right place even though , in evolution , newts and frogs separated millions of years ago .
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