Example sentences of "on [Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evaluators observed one course which was devoted to showing teachers from prospective Major Project schools a variety of worksheets , project books and software on which they might choose to spend some of their grant , and another in which nationally known figures ( Royston McHugh from the Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) and Ron Mitson from the Abraham Moss Centre ) sought to inspire a good attendance with the philosophy of a more broadly conceived RBL . |
| 2 | It can hardly be of great value to them out on the open ocean where they spend the bulk of their time , except perhaps to detect the stench of a floating carcass on which they might feed . |
| 3 | In this book authorities are said to be limited also by the kinds of reasons on which they may or may not rely in making decisions and issuing directives , and by the kind of reasons their decisions can pre-empt . |
| 4 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 5 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 6 | He may receive suggestions from the parties on which they may agree and which he can adopt . |
| 7 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 8 | The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp . |
| 9 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 10 | If joint and several liability is accepted , there is nothing to prevent the vendors from settling between themselves in a private agreement the basis on which they would each be required to contribute if a successful claim is brought against any one vendor . |
| 11 | Perhaps we should reconsider whether it is necessary to give women a precise date on which they should expect their baby to arrive . |
| 12 | Whether or not he was a sound thinker , on which they could disagree , no one could doubt that they had a professor who loved his subject ; he bubbled with it . |
| 13 | Phenomena such as suggestion , attitude , state of mind etc were promptly given a concrete target on which they could operate . |
| 14 | The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not . |
| 15 | The leaders of the non-Tory parties would have to discuss the principles on which they could agree and those on which they could not . |
| 16 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 17 | Acceptable to all shades of political and military opinion , as well as to the Catholic Church , fascist Italy and Nazi Germany , yet not identified exclusively with any one of them , Franco was the common denominator on which they could all agree , for as long as the war demanded that particular interests be subordinated to the overall objective of defeating the common enemy . |
| 18 | Classes are led by experienced staff , usually by staff at the drama school where the course is held , and at the end of the five weeks groups will present mini-production projects to each other , on which they will be assessed , and they will usually be given a certificate for having attended the course . |
| 19 | English departments in secondary schools should take some of the responsibility for preparing pupils for such purposes of spoken language in public life by providing firm foundations on which they will be able to build as adults with increasing maturity and experience . |
| 20 | Get them ( a ) to supply you with book lists and reading lists ( b ) to give you a dated list of topics to be discussed , so that you can study them before the date on which they will be treated ( c ) to become accustomed to questions from the class . |
| 21 | Publishers will need deliberately to set aside a proportion of ‘ play money ’ , which they can afford to lose , but on which they will seek to recuperate the large returns that go with true risk investment . |
| 22 | Instead of using measuring tools , many tradesmen merely estimate the dimensions of the surface on which they will be working . |
| 23 | This management agreement is to formally set out the relationship between them to establish the investment policies to be pursued , the powers of the trustees or the investors , and the investment advisors , to establish clearly the fees and charges which are to be made by the advisors and the basis on which they will be made . |
| 24 | All we can do is shape the means by which they approach us and the terms on which they will live with us in the time to come , that we may keep our honour and our identity , and be their free neighbours and allies , not their villeins . |
| 25 | Increased awareness is the basis on which they can be developed . |
| 26 | ‘ Does the profession — preparers and auditors — want the new regime to give them principles on which they can use their professional judgment or are they looking for a cookbook ? |
| 27 | Newspapers welcome with open arms a regular , efficient news service on which they can rely . |
| 28 | This may well be why older children do succeed at these tasks — they have independent resources on which they can rely — but it seems less convincing as a reason for the failure of younger children . |
| 29 | In a planted pond the fish will find plenty of algae and insect larvae on which they can feed in order to survive . |
| 30 | This information can assist individuals in developing an awareness of the areas of strength on which they can build , and areas of relative weakness which need to be developed . |