Example sentences of "on [Wh det] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole document must look suitably smart in all respects — the sort of paper on which it 's printed , the use of colour and so on — but at the same time it has to avoid being gratuitously slick , ’ Boon warns . |
| 2 | I found it boring , self-conscious and a good deal sketchier than the Balzac novella on which it 's based . |
| 3 | A person is entitled to act for the protection of livestock if either the livestock or the land on which it is belongs to him or to any person under whose express or implied authority he is acting ; and he is deemed to be acting for their protection if and only if , either : |
| 4 | NEC in Japan has adopted the corporate slogan ‘ C & C ’ — computers and communications — to indicate the basis on which it is setting out to compete across the world with IBM and many others . |
| 5 | The automatic directions confirm that only those reports on which it is intended to rely at trial need be disclosed . |
| 6 | This can be a major problem for the sponsors of the Motion if there are not many Members around the House on the day on which it is decided to ‘ put the Motion down ’ or , in other words , to go public with it . |
| 7 | The site of Castlerigg stone circle in the Lake District is an example , where the plateau on which it is sited is surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks . |
| 8 | Other sections on which it is hoped to complete work in the next few years included : |
| 9 | More and more sprays and chemicals have been used on the food we eat and the land on which it is grown and ingenious methods of preserving the appearance of freshness have been devised . |
| 10 | For buyers , that rarity would be assured by total production of only 20,000 compared with 2 million for the model on which it is based . |
| 11 | The film 's producer , Saul Zaentz , waited 20 years to obtain the rights to the Peter Matthiessen novel on which it is based . |
| 12 | Labour needs to review its programme , but will never win by ditching the principles on which it is based , says Deputy Leader ROY HATTERSLEY |
| 13 | That requires a major re-examination of our programme — though not of the philosophy on which it is based . |
| 14 | Unlike the eternal ideal model on which it is based , the universe is subject to change . |
| 15 | Such a theory is , according to Ives ( 1987 ) , too simplistic not least because much of the data on deforestation and fuelwood consumption on which it is based are unsound . |
| 16 | Urquhart says the board 's new figures can not be assessed until the research on which it is based is published in full . |
| 17 | From a Christian point of view therefore the root cause of the crisis of capitalism is not bigger government or more complex technology or even defects in the system of property rights , but certain false values on which it is based . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although the Black report does not contain any explicit statement about the period that it covers , none of the analyses on which it is based go beyond 1983 . |
| 20 | The ‘ facts ’ on which it is based are those of the unconscious emotional life of groups , and as such it can be entertained as an important contribution to the understanding of such feelings and actions in human groups . |
| 21 | The question is , does this added complexity and the assumption on which it is based add anything to the overall performance ? |
| 22 | ( g ) The ICL 2900 range of medium and large computers ( announced in 1974 ; Huxtable and Pinkerton 1977 ; Buckle 1978 ) and the University of Manchester MU5 ( Kilburn , Morris , Rohl , and Sumner 1968 ; Sumner 1974 ; Ibbett and Capon 1978 ) on which it is based , as examples of more recent architectural practice . |
| 23 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 24 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 25 | In the meantime , we will conclude by drawing attention to a number of serious weaknesses in the strategy on which it is based . |
| 26 | ‘ All metals expand when heated ’ will only be a legitimate generalization if the observations of expansion on which it is based range over a wide variety of conditions . |
| 27 | Like the implicit analogy between the Nixon pardon and a cleaning product , the comparison between denazification and the action of washing powder points to the arbitrary nature of the performative act and questions the authority on which it is based . |
| 28 | This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the chanson on which it is based is really in C major with a number of V-I and I-V cadences ( see Ex. 57 ) . |
| 30 | Any new definition that could be devised would be new in substance as well as form ; and if the case law is to be presumed , with it must be preserved , implicitly or explicitly , the preamble of the statute of Elizabeth I on which it is based . |