Example sentences of "on which [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new computer also provides an excellent platform on which to base new Columbus applications . |
| 2 | Organisations like the GMC and the BMA should provide students with the information on which to base such choices . |
| 3 | Applying this to the realities of international law , the ethical positivist in the first place rejects the search for an intuited or reasoned ‘ natural law ’ on which to base international law , for he views law as a human creation to serve those human objectives which survive ethical criticism . |
| 4 | The survey also shows that because of insufficient information on non-financial and external factors , directors only have a narrow view of the business on which to base strategic planning and control . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you have any evidence on which to base this supposition ? ’ |
| 6 | ( Rom 8 ) Not only are there the promises of Jesus himself on which to base this expectation but there is the evidence of the resurrection . |
| 7 | Yet Philip 's methods were those of his father and grandfather ; and although he had a clearer notion of feudal lordship and a broader canvas on which to exploit that lordship , even here he drew on his predecessors ' achievements . |
| 8 | Staff have been given a table on which to record assessed needs . |
| 9 | We also have a few little phrases in the UN 's so-called Global Plan of Action for Marine Mammals which give us a small hook on which to hang international actions for the benefits of both whales and seals . |
| 10 | The central question I want to use as a peg on which to hang various theories is , ‘ Why are so few Christians aware of the direct threat of modernity to the Christian church ? ’ |
| 11 | a scottish case where pursuer succeeded in proving a risk of future serious deterioration and that onset of post traumatic osteoarthritis would be a recognisable threshold on which to assess further damages . |
| 12 | As a result , the Labour party was organizationally weak in the Dukeries before the 1950s , and had no base on which to mobilize electoral support through grass roots activity . |
| 13 | In any case , the British hoped for an American-British-Dominions agreement that could be used as a basis on which to invite other countries to a conference . |
| 14 | On the same day Schalck-Golodkowski ( who had given himself up to the West Berlin authorities on Dec. 7 — see p. 37107 ) was released in West Berlin because there were reportedly insufficient grounds on which to open legal proceedings against him . |
| 15 | They concluded that , especially in relation to fluvial processes , explanations that ignore the role of human activities run the risk of eliminating one of the most significant variables and perhaps an appropriate note on which to end this chapter is their affirmation that ( Graf , Trimble , Toy and Costa , 1980 , p. 281 ) : |
| 16 | Since 1933 , and the development of recording , there has been an immense range of both well- and little-known music on which to build all kinds of ballet ( see page 56 ) . |
| 17 | It is also the most versatile structure on which to build complex graphic detailing . |
| 18 | Specific problems are resolved , while larger issues are clearly presented and students are given solid strategies on which to build long-term development . |
| 19 | Observation statements are as fallible as the theories they presuppose and therefore do not constitute a completely secure basis on which to build scientific laws and theories . |
| 20 | Shelves lined the walls on which stood magical pots — organic , looking as if they 'd grown rather than been made , with the colours of the trees , the earth and the sea merging in the glaze . |
| 21 | Inside , it was lit by a single bulb wrapped round with a brown-paper shade and furnished with three wooden chairs and a counter on which stood two telephones and a litter of timetables and pads . |
| 22 | At one end there was a green-glazed tile stove under a mantelpiece on which stood two bronzes , both modern . |
| 23 | Despite the observations of the Master of the Rolls , it is too early yet to build a pyre on which to consign conventional doctrine to its timely or untimely end . |
| 24 | ‘ … that fairy-tale defenceless land on which feed black eagles , hungry emperors , the Third Reich , and the Third Rome . ’ |
| 25 | The body mass index is a convenient measure on which to make this judgment . |
| 26 | ‘ If we find ourselves , as we did , unable to campaign , to argue , to debate on the great issues of economic policy , we are left with a very narrow terrain on which to fight economic issues . |
| 27 | If we find ourselves , as we did , unable to campaign , to argue , to debate on the great issues of economic policy , we were left with a very narrow terrain on which to fight economic issues . |
| 28 | Your authorities ' plans are shown less the amounts of these Government grants ; and of fees , charges and other income which they estimate they will receive ( on which see next note ) . |
| 29 | The office was a large room on the first floor equipped with a desk on which perched three phones in different colours . |