Example sentences of "which [verb] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. Farmers in the valleys and on the edges of Dartmoor and Exmoor concentrate more on rearing young cattle , sheep and lambs , which graze on the rough moorland pasture . |
| 2 | In the case of Gagnon and Simon and those influenced by them ( such as Kenneth Plummer ) , the theoretical framework derives from Meadean social psychology , which sees the individual as having a developing personality which is created in an interaction with others ; and from labelling theories of deviance , which concentrate on the public processes of stigmatisation . |
| 3 | These flowers are visited by larger bees such as species of Xylocopa , which land on the hood-like ligule and forage underneath it for pollen . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres visited Japan on Dec. 14-17 , for talks which centred on the Middle East peace process . |
| 6 | Carry on like this throughout the row until only one is left , which goes on the last needle , overlapping the one already on it . |
| 7 | Perhaps the pause is only long enough for his mind to find and form a new , fresh and appropriate body in which to continue on the mental outworking of the karmic dance . |
| 8 | At the meeting on the 5 November the BSI Standards Board agreed to recommend to the BSI Main Board , which met on the 28 November , that the new body be permanently established . |
| 9 | It is part of the daily truck in street markets ; it the kind of thing which turns on the average car dealer ; it is part and parcel of many of the transactions carried out in the building trade and cash or at least early settlement means a better price for the retailer when negotiating with a manufacturer . |
| 10 | Thus Morrissette was able to perform readings of his work which concentrated on the psychological realism of the texts in question . |
| 11 | This is the opportunity for senior managers to endorse warnings for vigilance or diligence , which they do occasionally , and for sergeants to review both the incidents which occurred on the last shift and the matters which need special attention on the present one . |
| 12 | Therefore if calves grazed from early spring are given an anthelmintic treatment in early July and moved immediately to a second pasture such as silage or hay aftermath , the level of infection which develops on the second pasture will be low . |
| 13 | David Hall exhibited at MOMA an elegant piece which drew on the lost potentialities of the Nipkow disc , mechanical heart of the early Baird Televisor , ‘ superseded ’ and eradicated by a progress which has been synonymous with standardization . |
| 14 | To put it very generally , from the mid-1950s ( the rock 'n' roll moment ) to the end of the 1960s the dominant sensibility in pop was a rock sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on the Marxist critique of mass culture . |
| 15 | Dalmatian architects and sculptors developed a style which built on the Romanesque tradition but which blended elements from the later Gothic and Renaissance styles . |
| 16 | The plan , which built on the 1988 Vienna Convention against drug trafficking [ see also p. 36780 ] , contained proposals to reduce the growing of coca and poppy plants in the Third World by developing alternative legitimate exports and guaranteeing these products access to international markets . |
| 17 | On the basis of some remarkably weak clinical evidence he decided that the site of emotional experience was the cingulate gyrus , which lies on the medial surface of the hemispheres . |
| 18 | ‘ and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence ’ |
| 19 | The closer to AD ( which lies on the stable manifold of the origin ) a trajectory starts , the closer to one of the points R or L it will return ; R is the point where the right-hand branch of the unstable manifold of the origin first strikes the top face of B , and L is the equivalent point for the left-hand branch . |
| 20 | Excursions : Liechtenstein , the tiny principality which lies on the Austrian/Swiss border is not too far away and makes for a fascinating destination . |
| 21 | The reservoir is a grim and comfortless place , flanked to north and west by the exceedingly severe Pic de Néouvielle and Pic Long — the Pic Long , 10,480 feet high , being the highest summit the entirety of which lies on the French side of the frontier . |
| 22 | Through several stages , the subject moves to an increasing degree of separation which allows on the one hand for the development of greater variability and specificity , and on the other hand for the development of abstraction . |
| 23 | We 've news from a knitting club in Canada — the New Toronto Knitting Club , which meets on the second Friday evening of each month at the Sewing and Knitting Circle , . |
| 24 | The area of suggested centuriation lies well to the north of the town on Cliffe Marshes , and Nightingale even claimed that a plot measuring 2 by I actus ( =1 iugerum ) , which features on the 1840 tithe map and is still in the possession of a single owner , was a survivor of the Roman survey . |
| 25 | However , such polymorphism does not account for senescence itself , which depends on the mean life history , determined by maximization of fitness subject to what is possible . |
| 26 | ‘ The Government is railroading through a new contract which depends on the comprehensive computerisation of practices . |
| 27 | The division of labour is the division of expertise which depends on the shared assumption that almost all work needs special skills , that we do better to concentrate on our own skills , leaving others to their own , and that this arrangement is functional for the community . |
| 28 | a demand effect , which depends on the relative labour intensities : if the corporate sector is relatively labour-intensive , then a relative rise in its output implies an expansion of employment ; |
| 29 | Having realised that conservation is always likely to fall victim to local poverty , great efforts are being made to set up small-scale sustainable industries which depend on the long-term well-being of the rainforest and other natural ecosystems . |
| 30 | Among the more common methods are those which depend on the colligative properties of dilute solutions . |