Example sentences of "on which it be [vb pp] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 200 per cent increase looks huge but the base on which it is calculated may be small . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | The correlation between serfdom and economic backwardness was now conventional wisdom , vague though the economic analysis on which it was based might be . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The grade seems god-given and immutable whereas the grounds on which it was decided might seem only too human and open to dispute . |