Example sentences of "on which there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is the only occasion on which there has been a substantial national strike in support of any industrial group of workers in Britain . |
| 2 | ‘ On grass , ’ says Mr Hann , ‘ where you inject into wheel markings you get more damage , as the tine is being pulled through ground on which there has already been some surface shearing . |
| 3 | This bounty was reflected in the Gasthof Löwen 's wine list on which there were eleven local wines . |
| 4 | The large frond carries many branches , on which there are numbers of leaf-like pinnules — more or less alternating on either side of the branch . |
| 5 | In reflection , Nicholson remembers that apart from the task of writing a film about a new subject on which there was very little in the way of written research material , it also came at a time when he was going through his divorce . |
| 6 | The one subject on which there seems to be unanimity , is that purity of insulin has been an important advance ( Andreani et al , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 8 | There was no occasion on which there was any negative or sarcastic comment to any child . |
| 9 | The Philippines also acted and placed a ban on all hardwood exports — again the industry will look elsewhere for its timber , most prominently Sarawak and Sabah on which there is already great pressure . |
| 10 | Intermediate grants may be given on which there is no rateable value restriction , for any missing standard basic amenities such as a bath , shower , wash-basin , lavatory , sink and hot and cold water supply . |
| 11 | This is another site on which there has been a farm for hundreds of years . |
| 12 | There was a small balcony at each stairhead , on which there was a small wheel and rod to open and close the upper saloon windows . |
| 13 | Mystified , I watched a pale brown girl in her teens enter with a tray on which there were two bottles of whisky — one squarish , one round — glasses , and a jug of water kept clean with a small muslin cover edged with blue beads . |
| 14 | In the old bay platform , a short length of standard gauge track has been laid , on which there are several pieces of GWR rolling stock . |
| 15 | They waited for the first flight out of Iraq on which there were seats . |
| 16 | That decentralized state structures serve to reduce the scope of welfare state expansion and socialist incumbency is one of the few findings in the comparative public policy literature on which there is near unanimity ( Castles , 1985 , p. 120 ) . |
| 17 | The young ruffians were all armed with thick leather belts , on which there were heavy brass buckles ’ ( The Daily Graphic , 25 August 1898 ) . |
| 18 | There would , however , appear to be one question on which there is unanimity of opinion and that is that Japan must be protected as far as possible from Communistic influences and from infiltration from the USSR . |
| 19 | In further discussion the suggestion was made that the best course would be to introduce the Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading debate that , since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote . |
| 20 | In view of the evident division of opinion among Ministers , it was suggested at the meeting of the Cabinet on 19th June that the best course would be to introduce the Criminal Justice Bill without any provision abolishing capital punishment and to explain in the Second Reading Debate that since the question of capital punishment was one on which there were differences of opinion transcending Party lines , the Government felt that the matter should be left to a free vote on the Report Stage of the Bill . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , we have been told by counsel that the matter is far from academic , in that justices ' courts are concerned , this being a matter which has exercised justices ' courts on many occasions and on which there are different practices in different justices ' courts . |
| 22 | The second point , on which there was considerable discussion , concerns the provisions of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 . |
| 23 | The grounds of relief were , inter alia , that there was a breach of natural justice and irrationality as there was no evidence on which there could have been a finding that the applicant had committed a breach of professional misconduct . |
| 24 | Linking rewards to share price movements overcomes the latter problem , but whether it will instil a more forward-looking perspective depends on how well stock prices reflect a company 's future prospects , a matter on which there is some doubt . |
| 25 | These are matters on which there is a wide legislative choice the exercise of which is likely to be influenced by the political complexion of the government and the state of public opinion at the time amending legislation is under consideration . |
| 26 | It may be suspected that issues on which there would be widespread local resistance , but where a party political split is not clearly in evidence , rarely hit the news headlines because they are quietly negotiated in private discussions between the minister , or civil servants , and the local authority associations . |
| 27 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 28 | We treated the universe as a perfectly smooth and uniform background , on which there were small perturbations of density . |
| 29 | The last part of the essay , however , is based on very recent work on which there is , as yet , no general consensus . |
| 30 | Taste : Give a blindfolded Brownie a plate on which there are four or five different powders . |