Example sentences of "on [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in one of those reeds is hidden a girl on whom the starry sky would gaze with smiles , for she is the most beautiful creature on the whole round of the earth . " |
| 2 | Between these officials and the mass of the peasantry were the mainly urban-dwelling traders , merchants and manufacturers , on whom the feudal obligations ( which bore heavily on the country folk ) were somewhat lightened . |
| 3 | This has been defined as ‘ systematic and continuous abuse of an elderly person by the carer , often though not always a relative on whom the elderly person is dependent for care ’ ( Cloke , 1983 , p. 2 ) . |
| 4 | In the first , direct taxes are seen as being paid by those on whom the formal incidence sits , e.g. income tax , whereas indirect taxes are those that are shifted so that the formal or statutory and actual or effective incidence diverges . |
| 5 | While he was not typical , the notorious sadist , Lieutenant Colonel Muraviev , one of the former Tsarist officers on whom the Red Army was obliged to rely , vowed to hold the Ukraine by fire and the sword . |
| 6 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |
| 7 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 8 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 9 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 10 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 11 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 12 | Will he ask his right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment to bring that home to the support services and the district decision-takers in South Yorkshire and to urge on them the prior claim of South Yorkshire police at this time ? |
| 13 | In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war . |
| 14 | Moreover , he intended to take on himself the national leadership of the party thus created , which would be called Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista ( FET y de las JONS ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr. Fitzgerald … submitted that the lack of care which could form the basis of the verdict could be a legitimate method used by the jury of expressing a view that there was a culpable breach by someone of a legal or moral duty to take care of the deceased which would be distinct from the general duty of care on which the modern law of negligence is based . |
| 16 | The second is the principles on which the modern world professes to want to run its affairs . |
| 17 | Is there anything on which the Labour party has not changed its mind ? |
| 18 | They 're usually purchased over the counter with no instructions , but last week I bought one in a plastic sleeve , on which the following instructions were printed : ‘ This voltage indicator is suitable for testing AC voltage from 100 volts up to a maximum of 500 volts against earth The metal part on top of the indicator must be touched to operate it , and the earthing position of the user largely determines whether it lights up or not . |
| 19 | Wilde ( 1968 ) exemplifies the approach on which the following analysis is based . |
| 20 | Several other independent technological businesses provide models on which the future AEA might be based . |
| 21 | It conforms to the detailed historical evidence which is available and the occurrence of mergers in waves instead of as a continuous process undermines the statistical assumptions on which the former analysis is based . |
| 22 | This was reflected in the literary diet on which the radical subculture fed . |
| 23 | To the masses which the French Revolution had made politically aware and on which the Industrial Revolution was imposing new and appalling burdens while increasing exponentially the capacity to create wealth , Owen 's new view was of a society which had realised their aspirations . |
| 24 | Without qualifying their opinion , auditors Hacker Young draw attention in their report to the basis on which the industrial textiles group 's accounts have been prepared ; they have been drawn up on a going concern basis . |
| 25 | It was the first occasion on which the atomic constitution of matter had been recognised as producing visible effects . |
| 26 | Its external borders shall be the borders of the FRG and the GDR and shall be definitive from the date on which the present treaty comes into force . |
| 27 | One of the fundamental principles on which the present day French and German constitutions are based , as will be seen later , is the need to preserve governmental stability and executive initiative in the day-to-day running of government . |
| 28 | There must be many who since the appearance of the original work on corporation tax by Messrs Talbot and Wheatcroft , on which the present book is based , have found the original book and its successor useful aids to company taxation problems . |
| 29 | You are incorporating humus on which the beneficial bacteria thrive and which both drains the soil of surplus moisture , yet holds it in the right degree . |
| 30 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm glad er at last after some further delay that members of this house have the opportunity to discuss the important matter of the boundaries on which the European elections will be fought on June the ninth and the extension to the vote to E C citizens in the U K for those elections . |