Example sentences of "[noun sg] on which he [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the conservation aim , there will initially be a greater , not a lesser , consumption of paper , if members are to be persuaded to be content with the summary , it will be necessary to undertake what the Regulations call a ‘ relevant consultation ’ which involves sending to each member both the full accounts for the financial year and a summary financial statement plus a postage-paid card on which he can make his choice for the future . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Short spent his last Saturday afternoon in London 's Tottenham Court Road buying a Notebook computer on which he will plot Karpov 's downfall from his room at the Hotel Anibal , the venue . |
| 7 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 8 | Heard that he had a walkie-talkie radio on which he could give the engineer instructions to slow down further , and to stop . |