Example sentences of "on what [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their ideas were based on what one might describe as ‘ school mathematics ’ — a set of facts and techniques — in which questions have one right answer and prescribed methods of solution . |
| 2 | In the process of losing his undisputed title to Bowe , on what one must say was an overwhelming points decision , Holyfield defined the qualities of a true champion . |
| 3 | There followed a long period of explanation of what we did followed by negotiations on what we would have to do to meet the standard . |
| 4 | Paolo Guidi , president of Sprint International , said only that his company makes ‘ partnerships with people ’ , and Randall Tobias , chairman of AT&T International , said , ‘ I wo n't put constraints on what we might do . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that most Conservative Members accept that , while some taxes may fall on income and others on spending , there is scope for a modest tax to fall on what we might describe as the amenity of property . |
| 6 | This led us to concentrate our attention on what we may term ‘ main morality ’ religions where , whatever their nature , the spirits involved act as the puritanical censors of traditional morality . |
| 7 | If some studies of style are of doubtful value because of their emphasis on quantitative methods , the opposite tendency to rely entirely on what we may call stylistic intuition has , if anything , been even more prevalent . |
| 8 | -WA serves to create a theme by identifying NP 's [ i.e. noun phrases ] that are to be placed on what we may call the ‘ thematic stage ’ . |
| 9 | Although the use of everyday common-sense beliefs is usually not only unsystematic and inadequate but also often contradictory , if we look more closely at common sense it is likely such explanations of the world are based on what we shall call here ‘ individualistic ’ and/or ‘ naturalistic ’ assumptions . |
| 10 | You decide the question type by concentrating on what we shall call the " instruction part " of the question . |
| 11 | Sometimes I think the industry tends to focus on what we 'd like the customer to want , rather than what he or she actually wants . |
| 12 | I think if we go down not having a responsible position to our debts , repaying our debts in the long term , erm , we are going to be restricted on what we can borrow with the capital , because no government is going to , you know , my party or your party , is going to let us go on building debts , and more debts by giving us permission to borrow money and more money and more money . |
| 13 | The public debate about political priorities focuses far too much on what we can do for today 's consumption and far too little about what we invest in the future . |
| 14 | I think we should attempt to focus on what we can do with the scarce resources that are available to us . |
| 15 | Yeah but the favour we 're only touching on what we can do . |
| 16 | " We 're waiting for news on what we can expect the market to be doing tomorrow . |
| 17 | Science is based on what we can see and hear and touch , etc . |
| 18 | In other words , on we can establish that we yes that 's true , but we ca n't necessarily meet it because we are limited on what we can produce . |
| 19 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 20 | Gooch , in Cities of Dreams , postulates a society based on what we can call ‘ mental artefacts ’ ; that is , ideas rather than physical constructions . |
| 21 | Recent criticism has become increasingly interested in the institutions which seek to impose controls on what we can say about the Renaissance . |
| 22 | Is it part of the Government 's duty to advise us all on what we should eat ? |
| 23 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 24 | Thus the rationality of expectations imposes restrictions on what we should find when we estimate equation ( 3.18 ) . |
| 25 | As the stray bullets whistled across no-man's-land , Charlie fell on his knees and crawled back to the reserve trenches , to brief his section on what they might expect once they were pushed forward another hundred yards . |
| 26 | Offers the nearest you will now get to an ‘ 84 Charing Cross Road ’ service , even advising clients ( Lord Lambton , Sean Connery ) on what they might like to read . |
| 27 | The debt-counselling charities shoulder much of the burden ; here Citizens Advice Bureaux workers from all over Oxfordshire are themselves advised on what they should tell the desperate people who come to them for help because of spiralling debt . |
| 28 | Make sure that there is a briefing before the visit — that people know why they are going and on what they should concentrate their attention . |
| 29 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 30 | For the families and individuals this means that they depend for their electricity on what they can generate for themselves , grow much of their own food and recycle their own wastes . |