Example sentences of "[noun] on which [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone was to blame , it was the anti-drugs policy of successive governments , and especially president Richard Nixon 's , but that 's another talking point on which he would hold forth at the drop of a hat . |
| 2 | It now runs quite well apart from two problems on which we would like your advice . |
| 3 | Opposing traits in his make-up were already evident during his last year at school , when he was voted both class optimist and class pessimist , though , at that time , he had yet to appreciate certain complexities of character on which he would draw for his screen creations . |
| 4 | When Peter made his profession of faith at Caesarea Philippi , Jesus declared that this was the rock foundation on which he would build his Church , which realisation provided the keys of the Kingdom ( Matt. |
| 5 | But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment . |
| 6 | The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp . |
| 7 | Scrutton L.J. , at p. 67 , said that the payment was demanded by the Shipping Controller colore officii , as one of the only terms on which he would grant a licence for the transfer , and he quoted Abbott C.J. and Littledale J. in Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 . |
| 8 | Thus , the purpose of a rent review clause is not to revalue the original bargain between the parties , but to give the landlord the income which he would have got , on the terms on which he would have let , if he had had the property in hand on the rent review date . |
| 9 | Notably absent from his remarks were any clear or explicit indications of the terms on which he would agree to return or any clear or explicit criticism of the insurrection in Algiers . |
| 10 | He expected it to be the only example of its species on which he would set eyes . |
| 11 | In his inaugural lecture he imagines a utopian plurality of languages on which we would draw ‘ according to the truth of desire ’ : |
| 12 | The amount of rent charged would be a matter within the jurisdiction of the tribunal , a matter on which it would have the power to err . |
| 13 | It has elicited a number of interesting points on which we would do well to reflect . |
| 14 | Indeed , Opposition Members did nothing to clear up the uncertainties about the huge expenditure on which they would have to embark to renationalise these industries before messing them up again as they did in the 1970s when they were under national control . |
| 15 | However , 90% of funding to be distributed to authors was not fanciful , and indeed the new Registrar , Dr James Parker , was keen to establish a figure of 11% on which he would work for administrative expenses . |
| 16 | I explained what I wanted and arranged a date on which I would collect it . |