Example sentences of "on [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A panel of subscribers on whom we tested a dummy issue was torn between fondness for the old style and revolutionary zeal , the revolutionaries being in a clear majority . |
| 2 | This brings as its corollary the awareness of the one on whom we depend . |
| 3 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | There are 500,000 nurses in Britain today on whom we depend for our good health at home , in hospital and at work . |
| 5 | Our scope is also even further limited by the set of authors on whom we have chosen to concentrate . |
| 6 | Treading the water , not knowing on whom we feed . |
| 7 | Parasitic flies are one of the hazards of the male cricket 's sex-life ; they are attracted to calling males , on whom they lay their eggs . |
| 8 | As well as having to adapt to major changes in their status , environment , lifestyle and relationships , Elizabeth and Helen have to cope with the adjustments made by the people on whom they depend . |
| 9 | Inevitably , however , they took over many factual and theoretical shortcomings from the anthropologists on whom they relied and most of the problems we have seen in their work they inherited from their sources . |
| 10 | However , the bishops ( both heterosexual and gay ) were not keen on being forced to harass priests , deacons and layworkers whom they liked and respected , and on whom they relied . |
| 11 | Though almost certainly untrue , the tale succinctly illustrates the prevailing princely ambivalence : they distanced themselves from the servants on whom they relied . |
| 12 | From there they were accustomed to having something like a bird's-eye view , seeing their husbands and the other male members of their families not as the tall figures they were familiar with and on whom they relied but as the busy little children they often privately felt them to be . |
| 13 | Hosea has to recall them to Yahweh , their first love , when they have gone and committed adultery , like Hosea 's own wife , with some other ‘ Lord ’ on whom they have lavished their worship and devotion . |
| 14 | If two persons agree that the price of property should be fixed by a valuer on whom they agree , and he gives that valuation honestly and in good faith , they are bound by it . |
| 15 | Certainly , as I will argue later , ’ sport and show business constitute the two spheres in which blacks have made immense contributions and which seem to throw up figures with whom black kids tend to identify and on whom they model themselves . |
| 16 | Jade accessories featured in rituals designed to ensure good relations between emperors and the celestial powers on whom they depended to ensure the continued mandate of heaven . |
| 17 | The slave-owning aristocracy of the Southern United States , the estancieros of Argentina , the great wool-ranchers of Australia , were as enthusiastically devoted to free trade and foreign enterprise as the British , on whom they depended , since their incomes depended exclusively on the free sale of the produce of their estates , in return for which they were more than ready to accept any non-agricultural products which their customers exported . |
| 18 | How individuals view themselves depends in part on whom they compare themselves with . |
| 19 | They were symbols of the fact that Osiris brought life by growing food — " the body of the god on whom one feeds " , thus providing eternal sustenance and the hope of eternal life . |
| 20 | It is true we have not yet been told , nor has Abraham , that Sarah will be the mother of the son on whom everything depends . |
| 21 | Unless there is a really determined effort to ‘ burn the books ’ , and reduce this tangle of bureaucracy , the people at the bottom of the organization on whom everything depends feel an increasing lack of responsibility for the achievement of the objective . |
| 22 | In part , this stems from society 's ability to handle risk better than the private individuals on whom it falls , and who therefore require large profits in compensation . |
| 23 | It would not challenge capitalism , so it tried to support it ; but it could not make its policy acceptable to the trade unions on whom it depended . |
| 24 | Now when Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them much money , saying , give this authority to me as well , so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 25 | Now when Simon saw was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them money saying , give this authority to me as well so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 26 | On whom I think the world ought to take a little pity . |
| 27 | ‘ He was a gentleman on whom I built |
| 28 | As he said : ‘ If I 'm deciding on whom I want to live with for fifty years — well , that 's the last decision I want my head to be ruled by my heart . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Nath said : ‘ The reason I became involved was I went to Romania to see another child , Bogdan , on whom I did an operation . |
| 30 | Sidonius , like the Late Antique authors on whom he modelled himself , had written such letters to ensure the existence of a pool of friends on whom he could count in times of need . |