Example sentences of "on whom the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in one of those reeds is hidden a girl on whom the starry sky would gaze with smiles , for she is the most beautiful creature on the whole round of the earth . " |
| 2 | Between these officials and the mass of the peasantry were the mainly urban-dwelling traders , merchants and manufacturers , on whom the feudal obligations ( which bore heavily on the country folk ) were somewhat lightened . |
| 3 | This has been defined as ‘ systematic and continuous abuse of an elderly person by the carer , often though not always a relative on whom the elderly person is dependent for care ’ ( Cloke , 1983 , p. 2 ) . |
| 4 | rankled with the Caribbean public on whom the social and political significance was not lost . |
| 5 | In the first , direct taxes are seen as being paid by those on whom the formal incidence sits , e.g. income tax , whereas indirect taxes are those that are shifted so that the formal or statutory and actual or effective incidence diverges . |
| 6 | While he was not typical , the notorious sadist , Lieutenant Colonel Muraviev , one of the former Tsarist officers on whom the Red Army was obliged to rely , vowed to hold the Ukraine by fire and the sword . |