Example sentences of "on which [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one subject on which we can not give a firm recommendation . |
| 2 | I was seeking a scrap of common ground on which we could mutually back away from the argument . |
| 3 | There were awkward times as well as good times , and subjects on which we could never agree . |
| 4 | The question of constructive knowledge is dealt with in part by asking whether or not , in the circumstances of the particular case , the ticket was the sort of document on which one would reasonably expect to find legally binding terms and conditions , and in part by asking whether or not the party issuing the ticket made reasonable attempts to bring the existence of the conditions to the notice of the other party . |
| 5 | The book wastes no time in stressing in its first paragraph the medical hazards of climbing these mountains , on which one can rapidly gain height up the accessible tourist routes to altitudes high enough to cause acute mountain sickness . |
| 6 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 7 | It is a situation which poses an insoluble problem for the Monarch , since there is by definition no common organ of consent and consequently no responsible ministerial advice on which she can constitutionally act . |
| 8 | As an entertaining diversion and one on which you can again get your hands dirty we consider a small point which naturally arises here , namely : Is it in fact the case that each of the numbers Nn is itself a prime ? |
| 9 | Either the landlord or the tenant may be entitled to determine a term certain at a date earlier than that on which it would otherwise expire by effluxion of time . |
| 10 | There was no issue on which he would n't take one side or other and preferably the minority , or losing side . |
| 11 | Even so , I understand he negotiated a substantial increase : an initiative on which I can only congratulate him . |
| 12 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |
| 13 | It had a red and yellow band on which I could just read the word Cubana . |
| 14 | at an angle on which I need not elaborate |