Example sentences of "[be] an [noun sg] on which " in BNC.
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| 1 | She now had three of that lady 's outfits in the wardrobe and there had not yet been an occasion on which she could wear one of them : the last one had been a winter coat sporting a large fur collar , and the previous one , as Miss Belle called it , an afternoon tea gown . |
| 2 | This is an issue on which it is extraordinarily difficult to find conclusive arguments either way … |
| 3 | I am delighted : it is an issue on which I have campaigned vigorously for more than two years . |
| 4 | But the notion of a ‘ toxic mix ’ of prisoners is an issue on which we definitely part company . |
| 5 | In part this was intended to embarrass President Bush into having to choose whether or not to veto the legislation before the 1992 election , since abortion is an issue on which he was seen as vulnerable among women who would otherwise vote Republican . |
| 6 | In contrast , although few people believe that the poor should starve , the extent to which incomes or resources should be redistributed from the ‘ haves ’ to the ‘ have-nots ’ to increase the degree of vertical equity is an issue on which different people take very different positions . |
| 7 | The current crisis places a new agenda before trade unionists and community groups , and it is an agenda on which many of the items are common to both . |
| 8 | A hazard is an occasion on which an individual can gain the respect or risk the contempt of his fellows . |
| 9 | As Richard has said earlier , this is an area on which strategic work will be undertaken in the next couple of years or so . |
| 10 | This chapter completes the course by looking at three further areas of study ; each is important in its own way , and each is an area on which students working at an advanced level in phonetics and phonology spend a considerable amount of time . |
| 11 | It was an issue on which he never bent . |