Example sentences of "on which [noun sg] be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice .
2 In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam .
3 While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking .
4 It was well known that Sir Dennis Rooke made it clear to the right hon. Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) that the privatisation of gas should be on his terms , and those were the terms on which gas was privatised .
5 As I have sought to show in the present chapter , the philosophical grounds on which individualism is defended , though compelling at first sight , are in fact open to doubt .
6 Following Eldridge ( 1968 , pp.19–23 ) , we can distinguish different ‘ causal levels ’ on which behaviour is structured .
7 It is usually formed from lightweight prefabricated sections which are locked together to form scaffolding of the desired length and height on which boarding is placed for the working area .
8 Being proactive means negotiating with your supervisor about what you expect from her or him , instead of just accepting the terms ( often not actually made explicit ) on which supervision is offered .
9 Hence Jacques Derrida 's influential concept of ‘ différance ’ ( translated in English as at once difference and deferral ) , a concept enabling us to ‘ reconsider all the pairs of opposites on which philosophy is constructed and on which our discourse lives , not in order to see opposition erase itself but to see what indicates that each of the terms must appear as the différance of the other , as the other different and deferred in the economy of the same ’ .
10 Only in rejecting the terms on which life is offered to him can a man discover his real dignity , his real self . ’
11 The imposition of legislative constraints on profit maximisation can , therefore , be viewed as a procedure for adjusting , in the public interest , the terms on which wealth is created .
12 It can be argued that the interests of the various groups affected by company decision making — employees , local communities , consumers , and all of us , through our interest in the environment , for example — are invested with a moral significance that can not be adequately captured within the relatively finite external legal controls that are currently relied on to regulate the terms on which wealth is created .
13 Overnight stays on the trail are in pub/hotels or hostel accommodation , depending on which route is taken .
14 I have also been able to make significant extra resources available to safeguard the environment , on which expenditure is planned to increase by more than 27 per cent .
15 Where the relevant movement does not span the change in reference date of January 1987 , the indexation factor is calculated in the usual way using : where RD equals the retail price index for the month on which the disposal occurs ; and RI equals the retail price index for March 1982 or the month on which expenditure was incurred , whichever is the later .
16 What is most needed is a clear explanation of the particular point on which evidence is sought ; the model form includes requests for summaries of the parties ' positions and suggests that relevant documentation ( court orders , pleadings ) might be attached ; but these should be restricted to matters illuminating the particular request for evidence and should not seek to rehearse the whole case .
17 Having heard the evidence given by the parties , the court makes an order in favour of the plaintiff or the defendant depending on which evidence is preferred by the judge .
18 Since that time , it has become steadily more unbreakable , to the point where the courts were not even allowed to consider reports , written by Commissioners , on which legislation was based .
19 The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 .
20 If the principle on which morality is based is referred to as ‘ acting for the sake of duty ’ ( Kant ) , then that would be a way of explaining the reason a man might have for acting morally .
21 As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven .
22 To save the shot , you can then do one of two things : reframe the shot to exclude the sky , perhaps by moving to an angle where the sky is obscured by a building ; or , correct for the backlight either by pressing the backlight button or by making a manual adjustment to the iris ( depending on which facility is provided on your machine ) .
23 Nevertheless , the owner of the land on which development is prohibited will claim compensation for the full potential development of his land , irrespective of the fact that the value may shift to another site .
24 In the first case the owner retains the existing use value of his land and is worse off only in comparison with owners who have been fortunate in owning land on which development is permitted and who can therefore realise a capital gain .
25 This is paralleled on the technical plane by a sabotage of the verisimilitude on which realism is predicated .
26 the basis on which provision is made for the redemption of debt ;
27 In an action for recovery of land , the particulars must give : ( 1 ) a full description of the land ; ( 2 ) the net annual value for rating , or , if the land does not consist of one or more hereditaments having a separate net annual value for rating : ( a ) where the land forms part of a hereditament having a net annual value not exceeding the county court limit ( see under " Limits of County Court Jurisdiction " ) , the net annual value of that hereditament , or ( b ) in any other case , the value of the land by the year ; ( See as to NAV — Chapter 29 ) ( 3 ) the rent , if any , of the land ; ( 4 ) the grounds on which possession is claimed ; ( 5 ) in a case under s 138 of the 1984 Act ( proceedings to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture for non-payment of rent ) , the daily rate at which the rent in arrear or mesne profits are to be calculated ; ( 6 ) in proceedings for forfeiture the name and address of any underlessee or mortgagee entitled to claim relief against forfeiture and a copy of the particulars of claim for that person ( Ord 6 , r 3(2) ) ; ( 7 ) a claim for arrears of rent and mesne profits should be included if applicable ( see Chapter 16 ) .
28 The key was the institution of a density control based on a normal limit of floor space five times as great as the plot on which building was to take place .
29 Any criteria can be used in this situation , provided , of course , that the data on which decision are made have been captured or can be sourced .
30 This principle , or something very much like it , is the basic principle on which science is founded , if the naive inductivist position is accepted .
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