Example sentences of "[noun pl] on which it be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Black report does not contain any explicit statement about the period that it covers , none of the analyses on which it is based go beyond 1983 . |
| 2 | In the latter case , the creditor has no excuse or justification for retaining the stranger 's money , unless he complies with the conditions on which it was paid . |
| 3 | The magnitude of this ratio , rather than the exact validity of the aggregate figures on which it is based , ought to be stressed , for it reveals just how much more objective damage is caused to persons at work than members of the public experience through ‘ conventional ’ criminal violence . |
| 4 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 5 | The model of monopolistic competition presented here incorporates only certain features of imperfect competition , and the assumptions on which it is based are very special . |
| 6 | Their approach , however , inevitably raised further questions both about the assumptions on which it was based , and about the implications for the standing of the Bible and for the uniqueness and distinctiveness of Christianity of this kind of historical comparison with non-biblical sources . |
| 7 | Those circumstances had brought about the capitalist system and had also created the concepts on which it was based . |
| 8 | Labour needs to review its programme , but will never win by ditching the principles on which it is based , says Deputy Leader ROY HATTERSLEY |
| 9 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 10 | The consequent crisis was an imperial crisis loosening the fabric of the absolute monarchy and bringing into question the principles on which it was based from the Basque Provinces and Catalonia to New Granada and the River Plate . |
| 11 | Finally , the actual and likely future effects of NCB ( E ) 's job creating activities will be compared with those of other agencies on which it was modelled , principally British Steel Corporation ( Industry ) . |
| 12 | Can tourism damage the qualities on which it is based ? |
| 13 | This blanket denial might have been more persuasive if the report , or the files on which it was based , had been made available for inspection by some suitably qualified independent investigator , but the subcommittee fared no better in this respect than had counsel for Pan Am . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 15 | The appearance of obedience was difficult to maintain in Tudor times when the terms on which it was founded were not clear . |
| 16 | Here the money was paid by a third person , and I have no doubt that , upon the acceptance of that money by the plaintiffs with full knowledge of the terms on which it was offered , the debt was absolutely extinguished . |
| 17 | that the plaintiffs can not be heard to say that they have acted dishonestly when an honest construction can be put upon their conduct by treating their acceptance and retention of the money as being upon the terms on which it was offered . |
| 18 | In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date . |
| 19 | A rule can never be appreciated apart from the reasons on which it is founded " . |
| 20 | If , as I have tried to show , the acquisition of the ego and superego were such important aspects of economic adaptation , first to hunting and then to cultivation , it is clear that the very success of the latter threatened to compromise the psychological foundations on which it was based . |
| 21 | ( The tablets on which it was recorded were discovered in the mid nineteenth century , and their decipherment was only largely completed by the end of that century ) . |
| 22 | From a Christian point of view therefore the root cause of the crisis of capitalism is not bigger government or more complex technology or even defects in the system of property rights , but certain false values on which it is based . |
| 23 | The belief of the City Council is that , notwithstanding there are clearly difficult traffic problems in the city , there is more opportunity to encourage people to use other more environmentally friendly modes of travel by locating development in and on the edge of the main urban area , a view that 's supported by P P G thirteen and the research document onto planning , transport and planning emis planning and transport emissions on which it was based . |
| 24 | It means broadening our agenda and questioning the decisions on which it is based , the reasons we go for one story and exclude others . |
| 25 | Other sections on which it is hoped to complete work in the next few years included : |
| 26 | The animals received , therefore , some trials on which the light was followed immediately by a weak conditioned reinforcer and others on which it was followed by a more powerful conditioned reinforcer . |
| 27 | The automatic directions confirm that only those reports on which it is intended to rely at trial need be disclosed . |
| 28 | The decision of an appeal committee and the grounds on which it is made shall be communicated by the committee in writing to … the appellant … |
| 29 | The application shall state the proposed terms , the grounds on which it is made and include a signed statement of the debtor 's means . |
| 30 | The grade seems god-given and immutable whereas the grounds on which it was decided might seem only too human and open to dispute . |