Example sentences of "which [vb past] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres visited Japan on Dec. 14-17 , for talks which centred on the Middle East peace process . |
| 3 | Thus Morrissette was able to perform readings of his work which concentrated on the psychological realism of the texts in question . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dalmatian architects and sculptors developed a style which built on the Romanesque tradition but which blended elements from the later Gothic and Renaissance styles . |
| 7 | About a million tons of lava are pouring every day from the fissure which opened on the Sicilian volcano in December . |
| 8 | The second half of the year witnessed a superficially arcane debate on vodka which touched on the whole question of government finances ( because more than one-third of the state 's revenue derived from its involvement in the vodka trade ) . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , it is inescapably true that the familial ideology was accompanied by , and often relied on , a vast underbelly of prostitution , which fed on the double standard and an authoritarian moral code . |
| 10 | A thousand years ago , humans used a similar but much cruder system which relied on the strongest part of the pattern , a band of polarised light arcing the sky . |
| 11 | Constitutional changes were first announced on April 28 at the extraordinary congress of the ruling National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) which began on the same day . |
| 12 | A doctor is called , and he 's diagnosed as having a minor case of blood poisoning , caused by drinking too heavily ( a three-day stint which started on the transatlantic flight and ended in the White Horse Tavern ) . |
| 13 | Mountaineering Council of Scotland president Bob Reid described the news , which broke on the same day as the much criticised Cairngorms Working Party consultation paper was launched , as part of ‘ a double whammy for the Cairngorms ’ . |
| 14 | Basse-Navarre , or Lower Navarre , was originally the French end of the kingdom of Navarre , the larger part of which lay on the far side of the Pyrenees , in Spain . |
| 15 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 16 | A big hand indicated the pair of envelopes which lay on the unpolished table top . |
| 17 | She shivered , her right hand moving restlessly towards the gold chain with its rectangular pendant which lay on the exposed skin of her neck above the scooped-out neckline of her dress : Rune 's parting gift given to her that dull morning when , after having insisted on collecting her from her hotel , he had driven her to the airport at Kastrup . |
| 18 | Shallow water clastic sediments were deposited in north Devon , which lay on the northern margin of the basin . |
| 19 | Which he did , a good two feet clear of the gaping open ditch which lay on the blind side of the hedge . |
| 20 | Rupert picked up the book which lay on the little table by the fire . |
| 21 | This recommended the adoption of a contributory social security system which improved on the existing system by protecting all citizens in sickness , unemployment and old age . |
| 22 | We wandered on , enjoying the flowers which grew on the arid soil : black meddick , heath bed straw , spring vetch , storks bill , red fescue , wild pansy , scarlet pimpernel . |
| 23 | Outside the marched in the aborigines had their fire of gum tree branches to purify the atmosphere very much like the flames of fire which appeared on the first whit Sunday . |
| 24 | Alan Rawley , prosecuting , told the judge , Mr Justice Waterhouse , there would now be no trial on four other counts which appeared on the original indictment , involving other alleged land deals . |
| 25 | A representative from the Bishop 's Castle Railway was an invited member of the party of this unique occasion , joining the electric car No I of 1893 , which ran on the wrong line just ahead of ‘ Loch ’ , which managed the gradients with ease . |
| 26 | Brackenshaw Park in Daniel Deronda forms a picturesque background for an archery contest : ‘ The castle , which stood on the highest platform of the clustered hills , was built of a rough-hewn limestone , full of lights and shadows made by the dark dust of lichens and the washings of the rain . ’ |
| 27 | of Holborough , this was a corrugated iron building lined with timber , which stood on the opposite side of the road and lower down , where now the houses of Browndens Road , begin . |
| 28 | During his time as Colonial Secretary he had established the measured steps towards independence for all Britain 's dependent peoples , the speed of which depended on the current state of development in each territory . |
| 29 | Henry V restored them in 1416 , perhaps because he hoped to use their local authority , which depended on the personal loyalty felt towards them , to safeguard his rear before further campaigns in France . |
| 30 | Now in that room at Fontainebleau so many years ago , I studied Francis but my eyes were drawn to that bloody ring which sparkled on the fourth finger of his left hand . |