Example sentences of "on which [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conscious manipulation of tears is very rare , although most women acknowledged how powerful tears can be and could remember the odd occasion on which they had been used as a weapon when all else failed . |
| 2 | After an hour or so they are given a brief rest by switching the lights off and then they are tested by being given a choice between attempting to follow the light on which they had been imprinted ( say the red ) and another , unfamiliar light , say the yellow . |
| 3 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 4 | Although she could have sworn she had blacked out , she still somehow recalled the journey on which she had been taken by the tall man and a few others . |
| 5 | C. , 1976 ) the court indicated that while it would determine the existence and the scope of the prerogative power , it would not review the propriety or adequacy of the grounds on which it had been exercised . |
| 6 | This was the 10th occasion on which Congress had requested the appointment of a special prosecutor , and only the first on which it had been denied by an Attorney General . |
| 7 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 8 | Erm , it was written in eighteen fourteen , and the author , at the time , was watching the bombardment of Baltimore from a British ship on which he had been detained . |
| 9 | Notwithstanding the two occasions on which he had been tempted to abandon the Army for politics , and the cordial relations he had maintained with the CEDA , Franco was disdainful and suspicious of politicians . |
| 10 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 11 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 12 | He had known the poor child was not robust : this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat , through an English lady , an Oxford acquaintance , then at Nice , who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American family looking out for something really superior in the way of a resident tutor ( 11 ) . |
| 13 | Further enlightenment is delayed until ( 11 ) , which at last explains how the interview came to take place at all ; but again , this information is postponed to the end of the main clause , in the relative clause " on which he had been invited which in turn contains a further relative clause " who happened to know … resident tutor " . |
| 14 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 15 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 16 | He was remembering again the time when he returned to England fifteen years ago from the tropical island on which he had been left . |
| 17 | Harbury dived in with a question about the legality of such a transfer which , like much of what MacQuillan had done , was contrary to the conditions on which he had been allowed to acquire the paper . |
| 18 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 19 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 20 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |