Example sentences of "which was [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After crossing the Border Charles 's army had split up , but the two sections were reunited at Abington , between Moffat and Douglas , after which , with a short interval between them , both went on to Glasgow , which was preached on 26 December . |
| 2 | In another letter read out to the Zoological Society in his absence , but which was written on 10 May 1839 , he recalls : |
| 3 | Thank you for your letter regarding the above which was received on 20th August 1993 . |
| 4 | The Mummerys therefore placed an order for a bitch from the next litter , which was born on 13 July 1963 . |
| 5 | Rats were given extensive pre-exposure to a tone which was followed on some randomly chosen trials by a mild electric shock and on other trials by no event at all ( i.e. they received a partial reinforcement schedule ) . |
| 6 | One type had a timber roof which was supported on two rows of columns which divided the hall into a larger , central area and two narrower , side aisles . |
| 7 | The basic study instrument was a self administered questionnaire which was completed on three occasions by all pupils . |
| 8 | The company sought judicial review of the proceedings , contending that the assessment had been effectively determined by the agreement under s 54 , which was binding on both parties . |
| 9 | It decided to do this through the dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982 . |
| 10 | Apart from the lamps that gave a yellow glow to the leaves , the only light came from the big windows of the Communist club which was packed on both floors , its discotheque going full swing . |
| 11 | In Lambeth , for example , about one-quarter of expenditure in 1979–80 went to the voluntary sector , which was represented on appropriate committees ( Spooner , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Pierpont Morgan personified the old Wall Street establishment , which was based on exclusive relations between bankers and companies . |
| 13 | The new constitution , which was based on that of the NCCL , emphasised the association 's character as a body which would make representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and would also take up individual cases of discrimination and ill-treatment . |
| 14 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 15 | The marked radicalization of Liverpool City Council in the early 1980s was clearly unlikely to assist the corporation in its demand-led , market-orientated strategy , which was based on public-sector pump-priming resources levering out greater private-sector investment ( Adcock , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Unlike Pilkingtons ' benchmarking exercise , which was based on crude physical output measures , RX 's emulative benchmarking involved identifying competitive gaps in engineering costs , product quality , product lead times , inventory levels and , most informatively , in routine business administration . |
| 17 | As to a levy , I am surprised that the hon. Member for Newham , North-East , with his experience as Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment , is not aware of the experience of employers throughout the country who sought to operate the levy that we used to have , which was recognised on all sides as a failure . |
| 18 | According to the respondents all the disputes were resolved by an oral agreement which was concluded on 6 May 1988 whereby the first two respondents agreed to pay $100,000 to the petitioner and $50,000 to Omnicorp and it was agreed by all parties that the legal proceedings and threatened litigation with regard to all matters in dispute would be abandoned . |
| 19 | It was called ‘ Pieces of Tape ’ , an anthology of broadcasts from the year 1932 which was transmitted on 13 January 1933 . |
| 20 | The Portuguese authorities had promised to hear Ferrari 's appeal against the fine next Wednesday , after which the FIA , the international automobile federation , was due to reach a decision on Ferrari 's appeal over Mansell 's ban from the Spanish Grand Prix which was staged on 1 October . |
| 21 | There are two years in which to implement the Directive , but implementing provisions relating to the entitlement to maternity leave for 14 weeks regardless of length of service are contained in the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Bill 1992 , which was published on 5 November . |
| 22 | I wonder whether Opposition Members have looked at the excellent background paper produced by the Library research division , entitled ’ The Regulation of Privatized Utility Companies ’ , which was published on 1 July and is available in the Library . |
| 23 | One such occasion caused Leslie Edwards to write a letter to The Times which was published on 18 September , 1937 . |
| 24 | Nearly 500 prominent Spanish monarchists sent him a collective letter of greeting and welcome , which was published on 13 February . |
| 25 | The king was killed in the battle which was fought on 22nd August , and Richmond became Henry VII , the first of the Tudor kings . |
| 26 | Altogether Eliot , who later offered his services to the Ministry of Information , which was founded on 5 September , two days after the outbreak of war , believed that a great deal could meanwhile be done by way of the spoken and written word . |
| 27 | The single company PEP , which was introduced on 1 January this year , has also been a success . |
| 28 | The second session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law held in 1894 agreed a draft Convention on Civil Procedure which was signed on 14 November 1896 , the first of four Hague Conventions to deal with service of process . |
| 29 | The present Comptroller and Auditor General ( C & AG ) is the fifteenth appointed since 1866 He is the head of the National Audit Office ( NAO ) , which was established on 1 January 1984 to replace and continue the work of the former Exchequer and Audit Department ( E & AD ) . |
| 30 | One witness said a security video at a takeaway restaurant which captured two men running down Pitteville Street in Cheltenham , and which was shown on Central South News , prompted her to make a statement to the police . |