Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] on which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all . |
| 2 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |
| 3 | The broad foundation on which our degree specialisations are built is considered particularly desirable by employers in industry and other fields . |
| 4 | Max appeared disappointed by the reply as he peered down again at the grisly work on which he was engaged . |
| 5 | He was as pale as the bleached wood on which they were both now perched . |
| 6 | All this produced a growing demand for printed collections of the treaties between the European states on which so many claims and counter-claims were based . |
| 7 | But by the end of the 1980s record balance-of-payments deficits , rising inflation , a weakened pound , and failure to impose the monetary disciplines on which the government had prided itself , suggested that most of the old problems were still present . |
| 8 | She could see that , although never aggressive , he was the strong rock on which his family relied . |
| 9 | They were talking as the horses climbed the low hill on which church and manor stood facing each other , when Carrie suddenly exclaimed , ‘ What 's that light in the window of the manor , Seb ? ’ |
| 10 | In occasional clearings the American boys caught sight of slender natives in conical , palm-leaf hats bending over fishing lines or snares for river fowl , but they rarely looked up ; only the naked , potbellied children paid any attention , staring at the Avignon with brown , expressionless eyes as it swung past the low banks on which they stood . |
| 11 | They sought both to contest his method and to expose the political values on which his theory rested . |
| 12 | The creation of a capitalist , consumer society and the rapid expansion of the urban middle classes which characterized Spain in the 1960s took place without making any fundamental modification to the political premises on which the regime was posited . |
| 13 | Legal questions which challenge the nature of our constitutional order can only be answered in terms of the political morality on which that order is based … |
| 14 | Despite this indication that Franco had not changed the political principles on which his regime had been established in 1939 , the US military establishment pressed ahead with its plans , on the one hand to secure bases in Spain and , on the other , to help Spain become militarily capable of joining NATO . |
| 15 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |
| 16 | I therefore contend that ‘ scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do ’ — in the sense of attempting to elaborate credible options for policy at a national level , while recognising the real problems involved — is actually a rather important part of developing ‘ the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 18 | A break with this doctrine was made by the Divorce Reform Act 1969 , now replaced by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 , as amended in 1984 , and the present position is that the sole ground on which a petition for divorce may be presented is that the marriage has broken down irretrievably . |
| 19 | Conscious manipulation of tears is very rare , although most women acknowledged how powerful tears can be and could remember the odd occasion on which they had been used as a weapon when all else failed . |
| 20 | So whilst you might think it 's a nice idea to make a change to some procedure or work instruction or whatever you want to call it , there may be the odd occasion on which it 's not actually possible to bring in a change because we 're faced with still er meeting the requirements in the base er I S O Nine Thousand document . |
| 21 | The line commenced on the Mitcham side of the London/Mitcham boundary , immediately beyond the hump-backed bridge on which Tooting Junction station was located . |
| 22 | In the pulps ( so called because of the low-quality paper on which they were printed ) , explanations and morals are often given explicitly . |
| 23 | Wisden records that ‘ on five of the eight occasions on which Gatting changed the bowling , the man brought on took a wicket in the first over of his spell ’ . |
| 24 | This ‘ destroys the technical foundation on which the division of labour in manufacture was based ’ ( ibid. ) , but it does not destroy the advantages which the division of labour offers the capitalist in terms of controlling and cheapening labour power : |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The foregoing explains a powerful method of analysis and assessment that the NRC requires to be carried out on a variety of systems within the PWR plant , such as the emergency feedwater system , ECCS injection and recirculation , containment cooling , actuation of safety features , the auxiliary systems on which these depend , for example the AC and DC supplies and essential service water and cooling systems , and they must allow for possible interactions between different parts of the overall system . |
| 27 | The precise transmission mechanism has not been explored , although the oral histories on which Krieger and Waller rely are vital in tracing not only the nature of the current culture but also its roots . |
| 28 | The reason is that he began to seen the economic concepts on which the society of his time was based , such concepts as value , price , property , and above all , labour , as the nineteenth-century equivalent of religion . |
| 29 | In presenting his administration 's programme to parliament on April 24 , Mitsotakis stressed his desire for consensus and reaffirmed the economic platform on which ND had been elected . |
| 30 | This necessitated the abolition of the whole Bakufu- han system and the economic structure on which it rested . |