Example sentences of "on [Wh det] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is the principles on which the modern world professes to want to run its affairs . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Is there anything on which the Labour party has not changed its mind ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Wilde ( 1968 ) exemplifies the approach on which the following analysis is based . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Several other independent technological businesses provide models on which the future AEA might be based . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was reflected in the literary diet on which the radical subculture fed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was the first occasion on which the atomic constitution of matter had been recognised as producing visible effects . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Indeed , Derrida 's quarrel with classical structuralism does not concern its Saussurean inspiration , but rather the way in which it has unwittingly betrayed the very principle on which the Saussurean revolution was founded . |
| 21 | On Jan. 2 , 1993 ( the date on which the civilian administration was to have been inaugurated ) the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) would be dissolved and replaced by a National Defence and Security Council ; the present Council of Ministers would also cease to exist , giving way to a civilian Transitional Council with the responsibility of overseeing the final stages of the transition . |
| 22 | Platinum is another metal on which the industrialised world relies , mainly for its role as a catalyst in chemical reactions . |
| 23 | But he was taken last month to Bill Wightman 's gallops on the lovely downland on which the great Halloween was trained . |
| 24 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 25 | The Ovetari frescoes , on which the young Mantegna worked from 1448 to 1455 , were almost entirely destroyed in 1944 , during a World War II air raid . |
| 26 | This gradual variation of the gradient is effected without disturbing the horizontality of the lift dock by providing at least at the upper part of the incline two or more sets of rails for each carriage supporting the dock , the said duplicate sets of rails being in different alignment and gradually assuming different levels , the wheels of each carriage being adapted to travel thereon so that on the diminished gradient the leading wheels will travel on rails at a different level from those on which the trailing wheels travel , the duplication of the rails and their difference of level being variously arranged according to circumstances . |
| 27 | Core histones are considered to be the proteins forming the backbone on which the genomic DNA finds a support generating the nucleosome , which is considered to be the structural chromatin unit ( 1 ) . |
| 28 | Returning now to the referral and investigation work undertaken by the team between October 1987 and March 1988 , Table 3 provides some detail about the range of activities on which the total time of 253 hours was spent and shows that the bulk of the activity time was spent in direct contact with children and/or their caregivers . |
| 29 | When Chaovalit 's resignation was announced early on June 11 ( the day on which the Prime Minister was due to embark on a tour of the United States ) there were immediate fears that a coup attempt might be launched , as soldiers in Bangkok and other areas began demonstrating within their barracks . |
| 30 | Yesterday was to have been the day on which the Prime Minister would restore his credibility and breathe new life back into his party . |