Example sentences of "on whatever [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radical translator is faced with the task of writing such a manual on whatever evidence he can glean ; roughly , on the evidence of sentences uttered or assented to by the ‘ natives ’ and the circumstances of those utterances and assents . |
| 2 | If distances to local rural district council schools are too great , they have to rely on whatever education is provided by the farmer . |
| 3 | Train your eyes to focus on whatever distance you have a problem with — to the Snorebuster , a cordless giant wristwatch-size device which detects snoring . |
| 4 | And to do that he has to draw on whatever sources of knowledge he has , and try to arrive at an honest , unbiased conclusion . |
| 5 | This implies the global application — on whatever platform and however diffused — of digital multimedia . |
| 6 | Since Switchboard policy and response is shaped by the callers as well as the volunteers , there is bound to be an emphasis at any given time on whatever issue looms largest amongst the calls . |
| 7 | Lodging-houses these , not of the ruthlessly spotless kind kept by Sairellen Thackray but terrifying places — even to Cara — where men and women slept twenty or thirty together on whatever mattresses or bundles of rags had been thrown down on the rotting floor , tramps , drunkards , lechers , syphilitics , crude young whores , wan little virgins turned out of charity-schools who would not be virgins in the morning , packed side by side in the dark and in a horrible proximity which made Cara shudder . |
| 8 | Current members of the Club go up for the weekend to climb ( this year it was too cold — even the lakes were frozen ) and after dinner retire to doss on whatever floor may be found . |
| 9 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |
| 10 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 11 | Skymaster is on Page 1500 , which you 'll normally be able to find automatically through an access key on whatever keyboard you use . |
| 12 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |
| 13 | It is desirable to have conventional procedures like legislation and precedent so that people may rely on whatever decisions are actually reached through these procedures . |
| 14 | Thus human beings , animals , plants , and all other genuine units in the world , on whatever scale , struggle each to exist in its own way , this , on the one side , being a matter of a certain physical individual having an inbuilt tendency to operate , so far as is possible , to preserve itself , in its distinctive form , and on the other hand , of the corresponding mind having an inbuilt tendency to preserve its particular form of experience . |
| 15 | We encourage students to draw on whatever disciplines will shed new light on the topic before them . |
| 16 | Thirdly , the shape of the curve does not match objective indicators of economic performance : on whatever measure one chooses , the economy performed disastrously in 1981 , and picked up slightly in 1983 , but perceptions during 1982 and 1984 , perversely , move in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | It can , of course , be based on whatever criteria you want . |
| 18 | Thus the Tibetan Book of the Dead had stressed that ‘ on whatever sphere of being the mind of a man may be intent at the time of death ’ , this would determine his future state . |
| 19 | Of course , maybe I 've missed him entirely and he 's already set off on whatever trip Mr Archer seemed to know about . |
| 20 | The plots of land can first be dated to ownership in the 13C , hence the aggrandizing owners of the 17 and 18C had to build on whatever space was available , gradually buying up their next-door neighbours . |
| 21 | If clients are able to pay the bill they can get advice from a solicitor as often as they desire and on whatever topic they choose . |
| 22 | The question centred on whatever impressions the American had gained from a discouraging experience , another failed attempt to resurrect a career that was seriously undermined by the beating he took from Mike Tyson two years ago . |
| 23 | But once holders cash in the bonds , they will have to pay income tax at their top rate on whatever gains they have made . |
| 24 | Given the existence of these EEC policies , it comes as no surprise that the states which border on the EEC are willing to join on whatever terms they are offered . |
| 25 | Either the contract will already have been concluded , on whatever terms , in which case the delivery note 's terms are irrelevant anyway , or else , if the contract has not yet been concluded , the delivery note , being a later " shot " in the " battle " , would prevail over the conditions on the purchase order ( see the BRS case , above ) and the contract would come into existence when the buyer took delivery and signed the note . |
| 26 | Deindustrialization , on whatever basis it is assessed , has prompted discussion over whether we are now in the midst of a period of major structural change , whether the UK economy is at some kind of turning-point . |
| 27 | Around the table or squatting on whatever box they could along the burrow walls , the others reacted in their different fashions . |
| 28 | In fact it has been found that even where several surfaces , like the flat rocks and stones , have been provided , the fish will ignore these and lay their eggs on whatever flat , hard surface they expose with their digging behaviour . |
| 29 | Neither is it , nor will it ever be , affected by the advances of human knowledge on whatever frontier , for further consideration of the position in these last highly scientific decades of the twentieth century , reveals that the need for a ‘ god-dominated ’ religion not only remains but has become almost desperate . |
| 30 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |