Example sentences of "on [pron] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between these officials and the mass of the peasantry were the mainly urban-dwelling traders , merchants and manufacturers , on whom the feudal obligations ( which bore heavily on the country folk ) were somewhat lightened . |
| 2 | The warrant officer was speechless , but not for long and he thundered at him as he had on me a few minutes before . |
| 3 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |
| 4 | In an attempt to define the basis on which a comprehensive GIS user environment could be built Rhind et al. ( 1989 ) proposed the Universal Geographic Information eXecutive ( UGIX ) as a system design . |
| 5 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 6 | This recommendation , which has not been implemented , appears to accept that legal need can be defined by reference to the existence of a legal problem on which an individual wishes to be advised , albeit that part of the half-hour would be used to examine the case and determine the ‘ need ’ for further advice . |
| 7 | They 're usually purchased over the counter with no instructions , but last week I bought one in a plastic sleeve , on which the following instructions were printed : ‘ This voltage indicator is suitable for testing AC voltage from 100 volts up to a maximum of 500 volts against earth The metal part on top of the indicator must be touched to operate it , and the earthing position of the user largely determines whether it lights up or not . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 10 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm glad er at last after some further delay that members of this house have the opportunity to discuss the important matter of the boundaries on which the European elections will be fought on June the ninth and the extension to the vote to E C citizens in the U K for those elections . |
| 11 | This gradual variation of the gradient is effected without disturbing the horizontality of the lift dock by providing at least at the upper part of the incline two or more sets of rails for each carriage supporting the dock , the said duplicate sets of rails being in different alignment and gradually assuming different levels , the wheels of each carriage being adapted to travel thereon so that on the diminished gradient the leading wheels will travel on rails at a different level from those on which the trailing wheels travel , the duplication of the rails and their difference of level being variously arranged according to circumstances . |
| 12 | Thereafter , and for more than a generation , Germany was the stage on which the rival powers played out their conflicts . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Havel visited Moscow on Feb. 26-27 , holding talks with President Gorbachev on bilateral relations and developments in Europe , including the unification of the two German states ( on which the two leaders were reported to hold a very close position ) . |
| 15 | It was reported that among other items under discussion were the questions of US support for the mandatory repatriation of Vietnamese boat people and of US passports for Hong Kong citizens , issues on which the two countries had had differences of opinion during the past year . |
| 16 | An additional Chlidema rug was specially woven for the pillared dias on which the two thrones sit . |
| 17 | The reason for this choice is associated with the convenience of aligning the coordinate directions with the shear axes on the surface on which the two waves mutually focus each other . |
| 18 | The plane on which the two waves collide is given by , or by which is between the two horizons . |
| 19 | IF THESE SALES HAVE NOT BEEN ACHIEVED THEN THE BALANCE OF ROYALTIES UNPAID WILL BECOME PAYABLE THREE YEARS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE FIRST CASSETTES WERE MANUFACTURED . |
| 20 | IF THESE SALES HAVE NOT BEEN ACHIEVED THEN THE BALANCE OF ROYALTIES UNPAID WILL BECOME PAYABLE THREE YEARS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH THE FIRST CASSETTES WERE MANUFACTURED . |
| 21 | Computer aided instruction ( C.A.I. ) strictly should cover other techniques such as simulation and computer based procedures but it is usually intended to mean a situation where a student sits in front of a screen on which the presented formats relate to his developing cognitive activity as expressed by his manipulations of the associated key-board . |
| 22 | On Nov. 27 , 1989 , mujaheddin representatives handed over two Soviet prisoners of war to the Soviet ambassador to Pakistan in Peshawar ; this was the first occasion on which the rebel forces had released any Soviet prisoners . |
| 23 | case of the diagnostic tests this model looks reasonably okay , we have n't got erm significant serial correlation , we have n't breached form , we have reasonably normally distributed residuals , right , test for hetero skilasticity that just a test to see whether the residuals are growing over time , right , hetero skilasticity is where we have non constant , non constant variance of our , of our error term right , and very often you , you find that the variance through the residuals , something like that the residuals will look like that , I think , they 're growing systematically over time , right , these are homo skilastic right , and these are hetero skilastic right , residuals and again we would n't want to have a model of hetero skilastic residuals , right , simply because that violates one of the assumptions on which the blue properties are based . |
| 24 | In most fungi the main structure consists of a number of threads ( hyphae ) which collectively form a mycelium , but the vegetative body of Laboulbeniales usually consists of an ordered array of cells , a precisely-arranged axis on which the reproductive organs are borne . |
| 25 | Nor was such military service the only obligation on which the sixth-century Merovingians could rely : they could expect the provision of hospitality , which could be an extremely costly business , as when Chilperic I 's daughter , Rigunth , set out to meet her intended husband in Spain — her retinue devastated the country it passed through . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ BEST-EXECUTION' — an adviser or broker dealing on the best available terms — was one of the pillars on which the Financial Services Act was built six years ago . |
| 28 | SSAP 18 requires that ‘ a material contingent loss should be accrued in financial statements where it is probable that a future event will confirm a loss which can be estimated with reasonable accuracy at the date on which the financial statements are approved ’ ( para 15 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The black car was parked near the Lagonda , on which the four figures in overalls were working . |