Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the person on whom all hopes are pinned , ’ he said . |
| 2 | That may have been the occasion on which , according to tradition , Betsy went to her quarters and changed her clothes as disaster threatened , her fear of the elements being less than her horror of being washed ashore in less than spotless undergarments . |
| 3 | I lifted the receiver and listened and it must have been the expression on my face which stopped him in the doorway . |
| 4 | Yesterday was to have been the day on which the Prime Minister would restore his credibility and breathe new life back into his party . |
| 5 | Much of this altruistic appeal can be made in terms of common decency , for this has been the basis on which radical politicians in the past have made their pitch . |
| 6 | Accordingly , in my judgment we have in this case a clear statement by the responsible minister stating the effect of the ambiguous words used in what became section 63 of the Act of 1976 which the Parliamentary history shows to have been the basis on which that section was enacted . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What are the lumps on my Gourami ? |
| 9 | Q WHY are the leaves on my runner beans turning yellow and white ? |
| 10 | Sensible , practical disciplines which are acceptable to partners and staff at all levels are the foundations on which good financial control is built . |
| 11 | The survivors are the ones on whom suspicion falls . |
| 12 | Old fashioned notions , perhaps , but since what you want is old-fashioned marriage , those are the principles on which it should be based . |
| 13 | They are published primarily for the sake of their inherent scholarly and cultural value ; for the sake of the great prestige attaching to them , of which more is said below ( 2.9 ) ; and because they are the foundation on which all the other English language reference books published by OUP are based , reference books which are all highly successful in commercial terms . |
| 14 | ‘ What are the odds on me ? ’ |
| 15 | What are the odds on them going down this time I wonder … |
| 16 | The referential function gains its prominence only at a later stage , and the metalinguistic function also comes later ; these are the functions on which a considerable amount of attention is lavished at school . |
| 17 | One of the important aspects of country house building that is rarely demonstrated is the basic structure — your photograph shows , in admirable clarity , the arrangement of load-bearing walls ( and , incidentally , a precarious water tank in the roof ) which are the bones on which the skin and organs are built . |
| 18 | The losers are the shareholders on whose behalf the auditors are , in theory , supposed to act . |
| 19 | Miracles and dramatic visions , wonderful and fearful , are the stuff on which the faith has survived . |
| 20 | And there are those who feel that illustrators are the system on which to hinge the display . |
| 21 | You are the expert on your child . |
| 22 | It is not fully clear what are the elements on which these social constructs of sexuality play . |
| 23 | For most writers , books are the jam on their bread and butter . |
| 24 | Now while it may be difficult to gainsay the claim that these are the things on which it would be most worth spending time if there was ever no further need to struggle for the basics of human survival and comfort , life seems to be trivialised if culture and personal relations are held up as the be all and end all of what really matters . |
| 25 | Erm I think the , the thing about it , which I th the good points about it th are the light on it , the light on the water here , the light on the waves here , and even on this one and also , I think , the choice of mount is very good , that you know , to choose the blue , it may be a bit obvious but I mean I , you 'd be surprised what some people do with their mounts . |
| 26 | ‘ Those are the days on which Ubaldo had a meeting with the kidnappers , ’ she replied in a dull voice . |
| 27 | What changes are the details on which different generations base their convictions . |
| 28 | The best place to start is to consider the business you are in , and what are the assets on which your business depends which are themselves dependent on IT services . |
| 29 | In the 1896 article on R. & R. Clark in the British Printer , there is a photograph of " the girls " case-room " : on the wall at the end of every row are the pegs on which the " girls " hung their hats . |
| 30 | What , then , are the grounds on which a large number of variations are' deemed superfluous ? |