Example sentences of "[noun pl] on which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As a Vascar , ’ said Trevor Newsom to a woman in a purple , off-the-shoulder frock , ‘ you must surely regret that you can no longer grow the extra arms and legs on which your livelihood depends ? ’ |
| 2 | He may receive suggestions from the parties on which they may agree and which he can adopt . |
| 3 | They know the country around their home well and , doubtless , the habits of the game animals on which they prey . |
| 4 | He chose as his novel substances the class of compounds on which he had worked 20 years earlier when he was a Ph.D . |
| 5 | Second , they give users a microcomputer-style interface while leaving the applications , and the host computers on which they are running , in the control of the data processing department . |
| 6 | Some wore only frilly drawers and black camisoles so you could see their bare thighs on which they wore fancy garters and suspenders . |
| 7 | The wind whipped at him , making it hard to hover and harder still to drop his talons on the moving branches on which he was trying to land . |
| 8 | Considerations on which they seem to draw include : how they construe their role as members of the police , which is itself informed by their interpretation of the organizational mandate of the force , by informal organizational requirements and occupational culture , and by local community expectations ; their knowledge of locale ; whether constables are able to resolve the momentary demands of the situation ; and their ability to handle the complex mix of law enforcement , local expectations , and the need for good public relations . |
| 9 | OVER coming weeks , this page will cover subjects on which we 'd like to hear from readers . |
| 10 | There were awkward times as well as good times , and subjects on which we could never agree . |
| 11 | In filmmaking terms , South Africa is one of those subjects on which it is fairly easy to occupy the moral high ground without subjecting you audience to a sanctimonious brow beating . |
| 12 | There were few subjects on which he did not have firm opinions . |
| 13 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that one of the most important subjects on which he obviously made so much progress with President Yeltsin was that of non-proliferation ? |
| 14 | The product sectors on which we have focused will , I believe , be proven to be increasingly beneficial to us as consumers look for fewer but better quality , better value products . |
| 15 | If stationary men would pay more attention to the districts on which they reside … from such materials might be drawn the most complete county histories . |
| 16 | Similarly , when we look at the South in contemporary perspective , we can identify a wide variety of indicators on which it stands out . |
| 17 | ‘ … bright young men of dishevelled appearance , often with sunken glowing eyes … their arms tensed and waiting to fire their fingers , already poised to strike , at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to be riveted as a gambler 's on the rolling dice . |
| 18 | In their analysis of error scores Tei and Owen combine data from trials in which the adaptation and test gratings were the same with data from trials on which they were different . |
| 19 | It is the first duty of any coach arriving at a competition to get hold of a current draw sheet , identify the areas on which his entries will be competing and confirm the timetable . |
| 20 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 21 | In relation to the vegetation communities in which the campsites were located , the major difference in impact related to campsite core size which tended to be larger in piñon juniper areas due to the more open nature of the vegetation and the less rugged nature of the areas on which it is dominant . |
| 22 | Similarly , though he insisted on doctrine which he considered essential to the Anglican faith , he did not require conformity on non-essentials , and also believed that there were divine mysteries on which it was idle to speculate . |
| 23 | The two countries on which I had set my eyes were France and Italy . |
| 24 | Reasons of that level can themselves be justified by reference to the deeper concerns on which they are based . |
| 25 | Lazzards New York managed to maintain their figures of last year in dollar terms and if we take the Lazzard houses as a whole we 're second only to Goldman Sachs now in the erm in the M and A table internationally and that 's on the value of bids on which we 've advised . |
| 26 | And one looks at the two most likely existing settlements on which you could do that to are , of course , Easingwold , to the Nor to the Northwest , and Tadcaster to the South . |
| 27 | It climbs the palm with ease and once in the crest , cuts down with its gigantic pincers the young coconuts on which it feeds . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | At this stage the bill was not printed but the sponsors explained why they felt legislation was necessary and the lines on which they were planning to draft the measure . |
| 30 | The information that the Departments have presented to us on which to er respond to the consultation has n't even been very and indeed when we requested after the first round of consultation to know the existing number of lines on which they placed er their , their recommendations . |