Example sentences of "is [adj] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that on existing beds or will it be for new beds only ? |
| 2 | If even one person is hesitant on tricky sections it will , at the very least , slow the whole group down . |
| 3 | Yet as Shaw ( 1980 ) has argued the assumption that mixed schooling is preferable on academic grounds is not well supported by educational research . |
| 4 | annotation is possible on all objects , e.g. on pictures as well as text . |
| 5 | Local residents can make representations against the grant of a licence on the basis that the proposed operating centre is unsuitable on environmental grounds . |
| 6 | She is popular on both sides of the Commons , and has some support from Conservative MPs who would like to see a woman Speaker . |
| 7 | So it is not only the composition of species that is different on urban commons , but also the life-styles of those species . |
| 8 | The yellow brain fungus Tremella mesenterica is conspicuous on dead twigs and branches at this time . |
| 9 | the holder of a valid certificate in a form supplied by the Secretary of State , containing the information required by it , and signed by a medical practitioner to the effect that it is inadvisable on medical grounds for him to wear a seatbelt ; |
| 10 | Both sets of rules for the domestic knockout competitions include the same addendum , which is anomalous on two counts . |
| 11 | This is fallacious on two grounds . |
| 12 | What the ads do n't say is that the food is as low on nutrition as it is high on unhealthy fats and additives . |
| 13 | So far as rainwater is concerned , this should discharge cleanly from the roof into an eaves gutter preferably 150mm ( 6in ) in diameter , though 100mm ( 4in ) is acceptable on short runs . |
| 14 | In this section , I have argued that the inductivist is wrong on two counts . |
| 15 | The truth of the conditional is dependent on other things . |
| 16 | That is not dependent on other things in just the way that ( 3 ) is dependent on other things . |
| 17 | Other than that , though , it is dependent on other nations either wholly or in part for products such as bauxite , copper , lead , tungsten , tin , nickel , phosphates , potash , rice , corn , cotton , silk , coffee , tobacco , and forestry products , among others . |
| 18 | Informed policymaking in education is dependent on accurate forecasts of the future demand for places . |
| 19 | The report says that the future of Hamilton 's four virgin oil and gas fields is dependent on gas-fired stations being able to generate electricity . |
| 20 | Like the northern spotted owl , the tiny bird is dependent on old-growth forests . |
| 21 | The value then of a political product ( produced of course by the professionals in the political field ) is dependent on two factors : ( 1 ) the symbolic capital of the political agent and his/her party ( political-symbolic capital includes the holding of party posts and the holding of local and less major national offices ; its maximization entails hyperconformity to social norms ) and ( 2 ) the extent to which these political symbols ( Bourdieu likens them to ‘ signifiers ’ ) corresponds to the interests and central meanings ( ‘ signifieds ’ ) of stratified consumers in the social . |
| 22 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 23 | Our usual sense of time is dependent on measurable changes proceeding in a linear sequence and this having been thoroughly and very pleasantly disrupted , a kind of musical clairvoyance is created in which past , present and future seem to intermingle . |
| 24 | However , in the passage in which he specifically considers whether a woman can be ordained , his answering in the negative , it must be pointed out , is dependent on biological presuppositions which we now know to be false . |
| 25 | This enzyme exhibits a high degree of substrate specificity ( NO is not produced from D-arginine ) and is dependent on several cofactors , among which are Ca 2 + , calmodulin , and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate . |
| 26 | How close it approaches a food item is dependent on several factors , because the bream , in common with other bottom feeding fish , has the facility of extending lips which it uses to suck and blow a food item to clean it before consuming it . |
| 27 | Of course this possibility is dependent on national markets being ‘ segmented ’ or uncorrelated with each other . |
| 28 | LIMB development is dependent on epithelial-mesenchymal interactions . |
| 29 | Interest is payable on all claims at a composite rate of 38 per cent . |
| 30 | This is payable on all properties valued at over £30,000 and is a fixed rate of 1 per cent . |