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

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31 Your contract is made on the terms of this Charter and is subject to English law and exclusive jurisdiction .
32 If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) .
33 No distinction is made on the grounds of students ' field of study , mode of study or status .
34 The handle is modelled in the round with a man engaged in sexual intercourse with a woman who is positioned on the shoulders of a kneeling figure .
35 It is grown on the slopes of the Himalayas in Pakistan and has very thin grains and a surprising fragrance .
36 John and Pauline Lusher think of Whitfield House as an old-fashioned residence and are rightly proud of the fact that , with the exception of ice-cream , all food is prepared on the premises .
37 Rowing , sailing , canoeing , sub-aqua , and water skiing , are centred in the Water Sports Centre , which is sited on the banks of the River Bann .
38 He gives it its full title : ‘ the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts , who is enthroned on the cherubim ’ .
39 The symbol is seen on the underparts or pads in a left-handed or anticlockwise configuration , which would become a right-angled or clockwise image if an imprint of the foot was imagined .
40 They enable the text of bills to be much shorter than would otherwise be possible and so much time is saved on the discussions of new legislation .
41 The rate is the net amount required by the local authority to meet the estimated expenditure and is levied on the occupiers of all properties in the valuation list according to the assessment of each property .
42 Much more research is needed on the differences between TNC , joint venture and domestic firms , in the private and public domains , in this context , particularly as it is likely that more Third World governments will insist on joint venture and similar agreements as a condition for the continued presence of the TNCs .
43 But some brief comment is needed on the remedies available to the holders of other types of security interests .
44 ‘ Drivers want to be able to put the same smart card in a holder ( or a different card in the same holder ) whether driving in the Netherlands or on a French autoroute , ’ says Ian Catling , a member of an EC group which is ensuring that electronic Babel is avoided on the roads .
45 Namibia is the first African nation to implement a communication policy which is founded on the principles of justice , participation and the two-way flow of information .
46 Namibia is the first African nation to implement a communication policy which is founded on the principles of justice , participation and the two-way flow of information .
47 If this is not the image that most people have about mental handicap hospitals it is because their concept of such places is founded on the attitudes toward mental handicap prevalent in society , and on various myths surrounding mental handicap which persist to this day .
48 The internal classification of the genus is founded on the arrangements of the nowers : heads of only fertile flowers for one entomophilous section ; similar but with a distal zone of nectariferous ones in another ; the distal ones are fertile and separated from the proximal staminodal ones by a zone of nectariferous ones in a third .
49 The ‘ outside ’ way of accounting for behaviour is modelled on the methods of natural science and is usually described as a search for causes .
50 Oxford Pocket English Grammar is modelled on the authors ' best-selling classic , Practical English Grammar , and is designed for learners of English at lower intermediate and higher levels .
51 Later the building was reconverted into two cottages as is shown on the maps of the 1850's , with stables at the western end .
52 The job is made easier if the bending machine is mounted on its own stand or in a vice and if some light oil is used on the formers .
53 Here , the claim that the empire of Charles V was calculated and designed by Spain is challenged on the grounds that ‘ there was no such thing in the late fifteenth century as a Spanish collective will ’ .
54 The Namutamba Rural Education Project started in 1967 , is based on a teachers ' college and involves fifteen primary schools near the town of Mityana , some fifty miles from Kampala .
55 Some of the nursing activities which might be relevant can be deduced from the following discussion , which is based on the reports of two studies of accidents in hospital .
56 The book is based on the scripts of programmes broadcast in the Nova television series on America 's Public Broadcasting System .
57 The poll is based on the responses of 1,016 adults in 52 randomly-selected constituencies throughout Scotland .
58 The density of CO2 at s.t.p. is thus given by It should be noted that the calculation is based on the assumptions that ( a ) CO2 obeys Avogadro 's law at s.t.p. and ( b ) CO2 is an ideal gas and thus obeys the ideal gas equation .
59 It is based on the proposals contained in the Board 's Discussion Paper ‘ Accounting for capital instruments ’ which was published in December 1991 .
60 This alternative is based on the observations in ( 2 ) above that ultradian rhythms arise after removal of the SCN .
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