Example sentences of "on [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in one of those reeds is hidden a girl on whom the starry sky would gaze with smiles , for she is the most beautiful creature on the whole round of the earth . " |
| 2 | Between these officials and the mass of the peasantry were the mainly urban-dwelling traders , merchants and manufacturers , on whom the feudal obligations ( which bore heavily on the country folk ) were somewhat lightened . |
| 3 | This has been defined as ‘ systematic and continuous abuse of an elderly person by the carer , often though not always a relative on whom the elderly person is dependent for care ’ ( Cloke , 1983 , p. 2 ) . |
| 4 | rankled with the Caribbean public on whom the social and political significance was not lost . |
| 5 | In the first , direct taxes are seen as being paid by those on whom the formal incidence sits , e.g. income tax , whereas indirect taxes are those that are shifted so that the formal or statutory and actual or effective incidence diverges . |
| 6 | While he was not typical , the notorious sadist , Lieutenant Colonel Muraviev , one of the former Tsarist officers on whom the Red Army was obliged to rely , vowed to hold the Ukraine by fire and the sword . |
| 7 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |
| 8 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 9 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 10 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 11 | Moreover , he intended to take on himself the national leadership of the party thus created , which would be called Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista ( FET y de las JONS ) . |
| 12 | The second is the principles on which the modern world professes to want to run its affairs . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr. Fitzgerald … submitted that the lack of care which could form the basis of the verdict could be a legitimate method used by the jury of expressing a view that there was a culpable breach by someone of a legal or moral duty to take care of the deceased which would be distinct from the general duty of care on which the modern law of negligence is based . |
| 14 | Is there anything on which the Labour party has not changed its mind ? |
| 15 | They 're usually purchased over the counter with no instructions , but last week I bought one in a plastic sleeve , on which the following instructions were printed : ‘ This voltage indicator is suitable for testing AC voltage from 100 volts up to a maximum of 500 volts against earth The metal part on top of the indicator must be touched to operate it , and the earthing position of the user largely determines whether it lights up or not . |
| 16 | Wilde ( 1968 ) exemplifies the approach on which the following analysis is based . |
| 17 | But does this observation not give us an insight into a deeper foundation on which the individual disciplinary culture is based , a foundation which is common to all disciplinary formations permitted entry into the academic community ? |
| 18 | Several other independent technological businesses provide models on which the future AEA might be based . |
| 19 | This is the ultimate overall analysis of the Northern Vasari , Van Mander 's crucially important Book on Picturing , published in 1604 , on which the entire modern canon of fifteenth- and sixteenth- century Northern art was based . |
| 20 | In other words , the conviction of the Israelites that they were ‘ God 's chosen race ’ is now generally regarded by scholars as not greatly different from the fundamental belief on which the Sumerian and Babylonian city-states had been based , namely , that the king was divinely elected . |
| 21 | This was reflected in the literary diet on which the radical subculture fed . |
| 22 | Without qualifying their opinion , auditors Hacker Young draw attention in their report to the basis on which the industrial textiles group 's accounts have been prepared ; they have been drawn up on a going concern basis . |
| 23 | To the masses which the French Revolution had made politically aware and on which the Industrial Revolution was imposing new and appalling burdens while increasing exponentially the capacity to create wealth , Owen 's new view was of a society which had realised their aspirations . |
| 24 | It was the first occasion on which the atomic constitution of matter had been recognised as producing visible effects . |
| 25 | One of the fundamental principles on which the present day French and German constitutions are based , as will be seen later , is the need to preserve governmental stability and executive initiative in the day-to-day running of government . |
| 26 | There must be many who since the appearance of the original work on corporation tax by Messrs Talbot and Wheatcroft , on which the present book is based , have found the original book and its successor useful aids to company taxation problems . |
| 27 | Its external borders shall be the borders of the FRG and the GDR and shall be definitive from the date on which the present treaty comes into force . |
| 28 | It also reacted strongly to the proposal of a white veto over CODESA decisions , which , it said , " smacks of the very precept of racism on which the present unjust order is based " . |
| 29 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 30 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm glad er at last after some further delay that members of this house have the opportunity to discuss the important matter of the boundaries on which the European elections will be fought on June the ninth and the extension to the vote to E C citizens in the U K for those elections . |