Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four-party Swedish coalition is likely to be split on the issue , with Environment Minister and Centre Party leader Olof Johansson under strong pressure to drop the project . |
| 2 | It purports to be based on the recollections of courtiers and retainers hunted up after the fall : but I have heard it suggested that the author did not take to the Picador edition 's cover display of a picture of Haile Selassie , perhaps on the grounds of a misleading particularity . |
| 3 | Claims to be based on the real-life experiences of LAPD detective Jerry Beck . |
| 4 | It was to be based on the British proposals in Chicago . |
| 5 | At the Haymarket he directed Alec Guinness as John Mortimer 's blind father in A Voyage Round My Father ; at the Royal Court his version of Charles Wood 's Veterans starred John Gielgud and John Mills as two film actors on location ( the play was said to be based on the filming of Tony Richardson 's Charge of the Light Brigade ) ; and at the New Theatre , Donald Sinden scored a brilliant success as an urban fop pursuing a country heiress in Eyre 's revival of Dion Boucicault 's London Assurance . |
| 6 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 7 | The arbitrator 's decision is meant to be based on the other reasons , to sum them up and to reflect their outcome . |
| 8 | Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks . |
| 9 | The first sift has to be based on the written application , hence the need for a good form and experienced people who are able to make suitable assessments of candidates ' experience , and strengths and weaknesses against the requirements of the job . |
| 10 | In broad terms , resource levels would continue to be based on the existing weighted factors . |
| 11 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 12 | Consequently in 1835 the Geological Survey of Great Britain was established by the government for the purpose of producing geological maps of the country to be based on the Ordnance Survey maps as they became available . |
| 13 | It seems to be based on the implicit assumption that women who reject dieting and respond to their bodies ' hunger can have no role to play in their own , or anybody else 's , fantasies . |
| 14 | For them the extent of the new prosperity may be doubted , although their relationships with their masters had come to be based on the basis of cash rather than service . |
| 15 | The point here , I think , is that if the latter is to be an ability , and not just a performance repertoire , then it has to be based on the internalization of systemic knowledge as a communicative resource . |
| 16 | This appeared to be based on the geographical location of their offices , although the structure of the firm may also have been a factor . |
| 17 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , the first FRS to be based on the ASB 's own proposals rather than those ‘ inherited ’ from the Accounting Standards Committee , is based on FRED 1 and the comments received on the exposure draft . |
| 18 | In the event of the Publisher receiving from other parties payments for exploitation of the Work in any other form or manner then the Publisher shall pay the Author a portion to be based on the Publisher 's net receipts from such other parties . |
| 19 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 20 | In the absence of any other plausible plan , that peace will have to be based on the Vance-Owen deal . |
| 21 | If the tax is intended to discourage landfill , ought it to be based on the volume of a product ? |
| 22 | The views of both theorists seem to be based on the distinction between a law-governed nomocratic social order and a purpose-governed teleocractic order . |
| 23 | This is not generally reflected in work on Japan published in English where the debate , if it is mentioned at all , seems to be based on the early works of Marx and a selective version of Weber . |
| 24 | With little in the way of landmarks , accurate navigation had to be based on the position of farm buildings , roads and the occasional flash flood riverbed . |
| 25 | The power output ( wattage ) of new microwaves will continue to be based on the IEC ( International Electrotechnical Commission ) 705 system , adopted as industry standard since August 1990 . |
| 26 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 27 | An explanation for this may lie in the way that children are treated in these two cultures : Western conditioning tends to be based on the idea of guilt . |
| 28 | It 's the idea that you ca n't have socialism in one country , it has to be international it 's the idea that it has to be based on the working class because the working class is the agent of socialism and it has to be by revolution because the ruling class wo n't give up its power and wealth voluntarily . |
| 29 | First of all , clerical taxation in the 1290s was to be based on the new and higher valuation of their livings made for the purpose initially of papal taxation in 1291 ; this assessment replaced that of 1276 which had itself supplanted the valor of 1254 . |
| 30 | First , this definition of topic seems to be based on the same ‘ topic = single term title ’ notion which we challenged earlier . |