Example sentences of "on [subord] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Dr Richard Gill , senior executive in the Pharmaceuticals Division at the British Technology Group , which helps industry seek out and develop new technology originating in universities and institutes , the decision on whether a project goes ahead rests in part on animal welfare issues . |
| 2 | ( In the Penn country one can tell who is anyone — it depends on whether a woman kisses Lady Curzon or not . ) |
| 3 | The reality of such choice depended on whether a reader cared who owned the papers . |
| 4 | It is not obvious whether there are any other independent aspects of the syntactic structure which may influence the question whether a minor property qualifies another property or " passes through " it to reach a referential locus ; we may provisionally assume that the nature of the individual lexical items provides the primary constraint on whether a property qualifying another property finds the latter to be permeable or not . |
| 5 | Commenting on whether a cake had been promised to Miss Dodd , she said : ‘ We were prepared to give it to her as a donation but she cancelled the order . ’ |