Example sentences of "upon which [pron] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 2 | They still remained somewhat too close to the American School Mathematics Study Group materials upon which they had been modelled . |
| 3 | They also lost their entitlement to housing benefit and income support , upon which they had been very dependent as they were unemployed . |
| 4 | Hardly any of the studies of the crisis go on to consider why the National Government broke the specific pledges upon which it had been formed and went to the country as a government in an election which bore some considerable resemblance to the ‘ coupon election ’ of 1918 . |
| 5 | The stony-hearted shore upon which she had been washed up was always in sight of a fretting , dull , menacing sea : potentially dangerous , urged on by the tide , looking for a killing . |