Example sentences of "a [noun] on which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routes like the Nameless/Autumn Flakes combination , a cuddly VS which can be protected , but a route on which climbers have lost their lives through belay failure . |
| 2 | There is no doubt that Saul 's Crack is not a route on which to learn the mystical art of jamming , but it is a good test of technique . |
| 3 | In addition , where the landlord pays an inducement to the tenant in order to persuade the tenant to take up the lease , that is a payment on which the tenant must account for VAT ( Nevile Russell v Commissioners of Customs & Excise [ 1987 ] VATTR 194 ) . |
| 4 | Concrete can also be used as a base on which to lay paving slabs on five dabs of cement and sand , or you can bed crazy paving on it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm after a Brian Clough-style dynasty , which we could use as a base on which to build everything else . ’ |
| 6 | The first product to come from the alliance is expected in the second quarter of 1994 , and is intended to form a base on which network operators can develop specific software applications . |
| 7 | The Sun , top seller by 1989 , was a tabloid relaunch , twenty years previously , of an ailing broadsheet paper with an entirely different character , some of whose readers nevertheless stayed with it and were a base on which the new ownership could build . |
| 8 | It will rather , seek to provide a cogent and detailed description of the situation as a base on which practical solutions may be built . |
| 9 | The figure is seated on a throne on which can be read the text : ‘ Friend of kings , Per-Neb the chamberlain and courtier ’ ( est. £600,000–800,000 ; $918,000–1,224,000 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ How is Kathleen ? ’ she asked , to give herself some time and in an effort to restore the conversation to a level on which she could cope . |
| 11 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 12 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 13 | Congressional leaders were set to meet the president on January 3rd , perhaps to find a course on which all could agree . |
| 14 | Now as you probably know this is a level nine course it 's a it 's a course on which a platform is erected for other courses as Gordon said then the the introduction to management you have to make a short presentation do n't you but it does n't concentrate just on this . |
| 15 | Ostyaks ( Khantys ) swore in front of a bearskin on which were laid an axe , a knife and some bread . |
| 16 | Although this exclusion would not be valid if it was not reasonable , it is likely that in such a contract on which the acquirer had received professional legal advice the provision would be upheld as being reasonable . |
| 17 | On that basis the Irish Parliament , whose legislative powers had since the fifteenth century been subject to the sanction of the executive in London , had that limitation removed from it and became a ‘ free Parliament ’ , but a Parliament on which no executive , not even the local Irish executive , was dependent . |
| 18 | If objectives are understood by all staff in a school , they will help to form a framework on which the activities can be based . |
| 19 | Such a plan will inevitably be modified , but it does provide a framework on which to build . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , a basically sound plan provides a framework on which you can build and progress in the light of experience and changing conditions . |
| 21 | They can be used to simplify the skeleton of the topic still more , until it stands out in its bare bones , giving you a framework on which memory can hang the developments , opinions and controversies . |
| 22 | Thanks to the excellent response — nearly a third of the University 's 65,000 alumni replied — we now know enough to build a framework on which the University can base its future plans for alumni relations . |
| 23 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 24 | It actually gives you a framework on which to base any any few words or any talk that you you have to give . |
| 25 | [ An interference is deemed to have been committed when one surfer ‘ drops in ’ on another , that is , takes off on a wave on which the other has already established priority . |
| 26 | They can have a seat on which you can travel facing sideways , or facing to the front ; a platform on which you can stand , or a platform on which a wheelchair will travel . |
| 27 | Inside were three bottles of pills , a card on which was printed a prayer invoking the assistance of the Virgin Mary , and a small black book . |
| 28 | Stuck in the door , under a card on which was written ‘ Open ’ in an italic hand , was a smaller visiting card reading : ‘ Francis K. Jowle . |
| 29 | A coast on which the wave energy is low , though here again how low will depend on other factors such as sediment supply and tidal range . |
| 30 | In fig. 122 Herakles stands three-quartered , offering the birds ' bodies ( lost ; we know the subject from Pausanias ) to Athena , who sits up on a rock on which her left hand rests , legs three-quartered away from Herakles , but she turns back towards him . |