Example sentences of "on [pron] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't be so fucking patronising , ’ she said , turning her back on me to continue a conversation with Geraldine Porter . |
| 2 | As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling , so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups . |
| 3 | It was a situation organized football had never had to face before , and there was no precedent on which to base a decision . |
| 4 | There is now a much greater difference between the probabilities of success and failure on which to base a decision . |
| 5 | There is now a much greater difference between the probabilities of success and failure on which to base a decision . |
| 6 | Until then , I simply have no evidence on which to base a response to individual cases such as Mr. Hall 's . |
| 7 | The person from whom you have to get these things needs to interview you simultaneously in order to get the facts on which to base a judgement of what you need and/or whether you should have it . |
| 8 | for services , information has to be made available so that you know what sort of services are , are available , erm on which to base a judgement about what so , what sort of erm , services you would like . |
| 9 | The tend to be unappreciative of the farm worker 's skills , not out of malice , but because they simply lack the detailed knowledge of agriculture on which to base a judgement . |
| 10 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 11 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said , the spokesmen got themselves into an even bigger twist over the question whether cost should be the primary basis on which to judge a contract , or whether then to introduce another element so as to ensure that white collar services can be won by the private sector . |
| 12 | Moving together on the rope in such conditions offers very little security because the leader has no decent footing on which to hold a slip . |
| 13 | If there were no refractoriness ( no failures to experience X when trying to have an X-experience ) there could be no basis on which to draw a distinction between appearance and reality , and without this distinction there can be no possibility of thinking about reality . |
| 14 | That is to say , will there be a table in my room on which to put a typewriter , and can I bring an anglepoise ? ’ |
| 15 | Unwritten rules may be a precarious basis on which to run a factory . |
| 16 | Because we do not have a suitable track on which to run a World Superbike round , the idea of running one in England under the Irish flag of convenience was hailed as a lucrative alternative , beneficial to the ACU and MCUI . |
| 17 | She had always lived in a town , with a street light shining outside the window , so the first thing she hastened to buy was a chair on which to place a candle , beside her bed . |
| 18 | To illustrate the conceptual basis of her thinking when arriving at a public relations platform on which to build a campaign for a consumer client , no better example could be found than her approach to the problem of one international manufacturing giant . |
| 19 | I had run away from Sir Tom because I needed to find a bedrock of truth on which to build a life . |
| 20 | The structure of the economy is clearly the basis on which to build a classification of the countries of the world in terms of their economic growth , or lack of it . |
| 21 | I had to enlist Butler , Maudling and Hailsham at the very least , to have the foundation on which to build a Cabinet and Government which would command support in the country and respect overseas . |
| 22 | It establishes a commonality of understanding on which to build a community . |
| 23 | His full support for the anti-Saddam coalition has not been universally popular : hence his latest diplomatic effort , which he must hope will still redound to his credit and give the Soviet Union a useful base on which to build a role in the post-war Middle East . |
| 24 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 25 | Where there is no specific provision , the duty will depend on whether the parties have submitted sufficient material on which to make a decision . |
| 26 | Thus an expert may need to carry out his own independent investigations if the parties have not submitted adequate material on which to make a decision : and the expert might be liable for professional negligence if he did not do so . |
| 27 | If you have single-frame advance , you will also find this very useful to help you find particular frames on which to make a cut . |
| 28 | Next time we will have a basis on which to request a meeting , in advance — trying to arrange meetings on the spot becomes a nightmare of negotiating other prescheduled appointments . |
| 29 | With no shell and thus no firm base on which to attach a muscle and nothing rigid to serve as a lever , these larvae are indifferent movers . |
| 30 | To give a concrete example , there is in the early development of vertebrates a process called gastrulation , during which a hollow ball of cells , the blastula , is folded in on itself to form a ball of two cell layers , with an opening , the blastopore , at one end . |