Example sentences of "which [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly something which operated on two unusually distinct levels . |
| 2 | Intercity buses in the United States carry 375 million passengers a year across more than a billion miles — quite a legacy from the first US bus service which operated on Long Island in 1899 . |
| 3 | Named after the famous battleships and secured by a £12 patent , the twenty Dreadnoughts which operated on Blackpool Promenade from the turn of the Century until 1934 , were certainly unique . |
| 4 | Sitcoms like Love Thy Neighbour , Till Death Us Do Part and Mind Your Language were stuffed to bursting with gags which operated on the principle that differences of colour or culture were an endless source of easy laughs . |
| 5 | So , Fearnley was under continuous threat from the two or three agencies which operated on an international basis , and especially from the most powerful , Mike Martinez . |
| 6 | Partial debt remission would reward enterprises which agreed on a restructuring programme with their creditors . |
| 7 | [ For November SPD congress which agreed on the need to tighten the law see p. 39208 . ] |
| 8 | In our discussion of theories of crime , in Chapter Two , we examined various theoretical approaches which centred on class differences in crime and , in particular , juvenile delinquency . |
| 9 | Founded in 1860 by a group of railwaymen at the Eastern Counties Railway works at Stratford , it had progressed steadily , in part through amalgamation with smaller societies at Canning Town in 1882 , Plaistow in 1883 and Beckton in 1892 , all of which centred on colonies of skilled and semiskilled labour ( Marriott 1984 ) . |
| 10 | A notably successful example of a glass shot ( see page 44 ) appears in the Powell/Pressburger version of Rumer Godden 's 1938 novel , Black Narcissus ( 1947 ) , which centred on a small group of nuns in the Indian Himalayas . |
| 11 | The dispute between , on the one side , the News International newspapers ( Sun and News of the World ) , the Times Group ( The Times and The Sunday Times ) and others , and , on the other side , the unions ( SOGAT 82 , the NGA and others ) which centred on the new site at Wapping , followed the breakdown of negotiations and the dismissal of all those on strike . |
| 12 | Luxurious private supper rooms in the West-End known as ‘ the finishes ’ organized part-orgies part entertainments which centred on the ‘ erotic ’ degradation of women by male clients . |
| 13 | Within a few years of the introduction of the Dip.AD , it became apparent that all was not well and discontent in some of the art colleges culminated in the so-called ‘ revolution ’ of 1968 which centred on the then Hornsey and Guildford Colleges of Art . |
| 14 | Fifty or sixty parents were present , and were talking in nervous or gushing little groups which centred on one or other of the teachers . |
| 15 | Three congressional panels and the Justice Department were conducting the investigations , which opened in mid-May , and which centred on the HUD 's Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Programme . |
| 16 | Hitherto , the Frelimo president was also President of the Republic ; the proposed change followed discussions at the fifth Frelimo congress in July 1989 , which centred on ways to broaden popular support for the party and strengthen national unity [ see p. 36804 ] . |
| 17 | The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister , Mahmud Va'ezi , visited Bonn on Dec. 11-12 for discussions which centred on the hostage issue . |
| 18 | After several months of growing pressure the " Iraqgate " affair — which centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence — burst into the open during October . |
| 19 | Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres visited Japan on Dec. 14-17 , for talks which centred on the Middle East peace process . |
| 20 | More than two hundred officers took part in the operation which centred on the Toxteth area of the city . |
| 21 | Even so , in the diffuse community which centred on the church there might be those willing to shelter him . |
| 22 | A committed member of the circle of reformers which centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , he spent four years in the second half of the 1850s investigating the financial procedures of various west European countries and the United States . |
| 23 | Mr Essex trained at Dartington College of Arts , a progressive place of the 60s which centred on music , art and drama and which , he says , proved to be the making of him in many ways . |
| 24 | The head of MI5 , and formerly a member of the ‘ domestic subversion ’ department , which snooped on Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman ( who went on to become Kinnock 's press secretary at the last election , and Labour 's health spokeswoman , respectively ) . |
| 25 | Such a lifespan is not uncommon for a captive tortoise , the oldest one recorded being a male , which lived on Mauritius for 152 years . |
| 26 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 27 | For many years all British clubs used 1,000 lb weak links which failed on any two-seater launch where the pilot tried to get the maximum height . |
| 28 | Next morning the whole town and bay were shrouded in mist which condensed on every cold surface . |
| 29 | In Indonesia a large part of the argument which led on two occasions to undeclared war turned on the federal nature of the new state . |
| 30 | In 1964 she completed the Keep Fit Association 's teacher training course , which led on the Medau teacher training . |