Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [modal v] [be] [verb] on " in BNC.

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1 Instead , in November 1985 , with the backing of the farming lobby , which feared that controls or taxes would be imposed on nitrogen fertiliser , the DoE granted water suppliers no fewer than 57 derogations , 48 of them for contamination by nitrates .
2 This , along with the introduction of capitation funding — where DHAs will be funded on the basis of a capitation fee for their residents — has forced the issue .
3 More specifically , four main categories of OR models can be identified on the basis of their general objective .
4 Early morning teas , telephone calls , newspapers and any other visitors ’ charge slips or paid-outs must be entered on the current tabular ledger and guests ' folios .
5 It remains to be seen whether similar restrictions or limits will be placed on these public rights to information .
6 For example , the effects of transactions or events can be recognized on an accrual basis ( that is , when the transactions or events take place ) , or on a cash basis ( that is , when cash is received or paid ) .
7 It was agreed that law and order should be restored immediately , that the conflicts could only be resolved in accordance with the USSR and Moldavian Constitutions , and that moratoriums should be declared on the resolutions by all sides which had produced the crises ( not only the Gagauz and Russian secession declarations , but also Moldavia 's August 1989 language law — see p. 36855 ) .
8 As a matter of interest , the printer 's pagination in one place runs 65 , 66 , 76 , 68 , 69 , 70 — reinforcing the statement that signatures should be relied on rather than page numbers when it is important to be completely sure .
9 The organisers ask that cars should be parked on the Butser Hill side of the A3 within the Queen Elizabeth Country Park .
10 Mr Smith blamed local authorities for changing the formulae by which budgets were calculated and blamed the Government for capping council spending and insisting that schools should be funded on the basis of the local average of teachers ' salaries rather than the actual salaries they paid .
11 At around the same time , the issue of school closure was raised with the Regional Council , which decided that schools should be closed on educational rather than financial grounds .
12 A widely held view is that animals can be ranked on a scale , a ‘ phylogenetic ’ scale , based on their degree of similarity to humans .
13 The centres might have to go cap in hand to the Croydon college and the two sixth-form colleges in the borough asking their governing bodies to apply to the funding council for funds for vocational courses , in the hope that funds would be obtained on behalf of the adult education centres .
14 She is conscious of the fact that the Arts Council is looking at the entire range of dance companies which it supports , and that funds will be concentrated on those which seem to have the most positive artistic policy .
15 Experts advise that sunscreens should be reapplied on a hourly basis ( a dollop of cream about the size of a grape is a good guideline for your face ) .
16 The notion that clients could be rated on a dimension of how worried they were about their symptoms of stress ( physical , cognitive , behavioural ) as opposed to how worried they were about factors which caused those symptoms ( Stress 's , Life Events , etc. ) is an interesting and as yet unexplored area .
17 The views of centres are therefore being sought on the year in which it is considered that candidates could be enrolled on new-style courses , for those courses which are not the subject of national development of units .
18 It was perhaps unfortunate that potatoes could be grown on land which would not support other crops because this led to countries with poor rural economies turning more and more towards potatoes as their sole means of sustenance .
19 The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago .
20 However , it is possible to concede that defendants should be judged on the facts as they believe them to be , and yet to argue in favour of an exception in rape cases .
21 Although individuals may be grouped on the basis of various variable scores , this is almost always without regard for their position within the social structure .
22 Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic .
23 RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis .
24 The new proposals are that individuals should be taxed on all their income on a common current year basis and taxpayers who are sent returns could choose whether to assess themselves .
25 Now we understand that exceptions can be made on humane grounds and we have decided to exercise that discretion in the case of Mrs Butler . ’
26 The defendant , a Greek bank of the private sector , had announced a public open competition for hiring of male and female employees , specifying that appointments would be made on the basis of separate lists of successful candidates , according to sex and marks obtained .
27 Those arrangements do not preclude education authority representatives either being appointed initially by the Secretary of State or subsequently by boards , but I stress that appointments will be made on the basis of personal qualities .
28 Sometimes the purpose is simply intimidatory , as with the racist march , rather than an attempt to coerce persons into taking or not pursuing any particular course of action , and it is difficult to see that conditions could be imposed on a ‘ racist ’ march on this ground alone .
29 During my researches for this series I have met many people who , though agreeing with the theory behind the reforms of British medical education proposed by the General Medical Council and other bodies , do not think that reforms can be implemented on a wide scale .
30 Although the ACOC has hired Mark Mac Cormack 's fiercely commercial Trans World International to sell television rights worldwide , Ehman insists that deals will be signed on the criterion of the best coverage , rather than most money .
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