Example sentences of "on which [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 2 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 3 | One of the rare occasions on which they ventured beyond the studio was for Carry On Up The Khyber . |
| 4 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 5 | The resources on which they call in making this decision include the above typifications , as well as local knowledge of the area and its crime , and contextual and time variables . |
| 6 | The same writer , using the same mix of ink , also headed several of the vocal numbers with the page numbers on which they appear in the second volume of Orpheus Britannicus , published in 1702 . |
| 7 | They even help on the shaping , by kicking out small platforms on which they lie in summer . |
| 8 | Previously they would have lost benefit solely for the one day on which they earned above the limit . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , it is uncertain how many of the clerks and knights of princely households obtained from schools the pragmatic literacy on which they called in their day-to-day business . |
| 10 | Everyone thinks the implicit extension includes one or the other of these latter propositions , but they disagree which , because they disagree which solution best interprets the abstract goal on which they agree of equality of opportunity in court . |
| 11 | Birds of prey , such as this tawny owl ( opposite , bottom ) swooping down on a mouse , are at serious risk in many parts of the world because of pesticides employed to eliminate the pests on which they rely for food . |
| 12 | The awareness on which valuation depends is that on which we act in ordinary life , seldom treatable by the strict methods of proof of the sciences . |
| 13 | We have not changed the basis on which we keep in touch with Palestinians . |
| 14 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 15 | Rumi wrote , ‘ The gallows ( on which we are killed ) is the buraq on which we ride to heaven . ’ |
| 16 | Some distance from the rock on which we sat in conference conferring about the future of the world , if that does n't sound too pompous — an angsana stood , a large tropical tree , its branches full of birds to which I paid no attention . |
| 17 | ‘ We can not simply change the face at the top and expect to win in 1996 on the programme on which we lost in 1992 . |
| 18 | The realist and the sceptic think of the world as one on which we have at best a tentative grasp . |
| 19 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 20 | She pinched herself , but might as well have been pinching the padded plastic of the bed on which she sat for all the sensation she felt . |
| 21 | Marshall outlines the history and special qualities of the so-called Piffaro Organ of 1519 in the Church of Santa Maria della Scale , Sienna , on which she brings to life works that almost demand the voicings and colours of such an instrument . |
| 22 | Address the document to Fred in the usual way but also send a blind copy to a folder called 193O728 — named after the date on which you wish to be reminded , in reverse . |
| 23 | The rectangles drawn around the row numbers indicate the rows on which you knit with the background colour . |
| 24 | If you do n't believe in the fundamentals underlying the latest fashion , go back to " square one " and carefully examine ( and develop ) the basic principles on which you manage for profit . |
| 25 | It was n't the type of climb on which you wanted to be with a total beginner — Robin . |
| 26 | Not only did it fail to achieve all the gains on which it seemed to be calculating in embarking on the assault , but it sustained one particularly debilitating blow in the course of it . |
| 27 | And that is why we are so confident IBM — at least at the high levels where policy is made — has n't a clue about the nature of the large systems customers on which it depends for a considerable portion of its revenue and , we believe , more than half its gross profit . |
| 28 | And it has now won a record-breaking fourth consecutive term , the first for 150 years , despite failing to retain even the 44 per cent share of the vote on which it came to power in 1979 . |
| 29 | Anthropological knowledge can seem , and often is , dangerous and subversive — not because we are good at digging up dirt ( we are ) , nor simply because we document what ‘ actually happens ’ rather than what is supposed to happen , but because our ways of defining situations and problems often raise questions in our minds about the fundamental assumptions on which any institution bases its own definitions , and indeed the assumptions on which it rests as an institution . |
| 30 | The problems reflect a painful transition period for Bolt Beranek as its major market — the military military , on which it depended for almost half its revenue — is slipping away while it has yet to see much return from its substantial investment in Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching or its T/10 Integrated Access Device . |