Example sentences of "which was [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a mysterious logic which was lost on the majority , a retired military officer took command , demanding total obedience from all foreigners in the camp . |
| 2 | Also in East Yorkshire are Goodmanham , which was built on the site of a pagan temple and Rudston , where the church is adjacent to the tallest standing stone in Britain . |
| 3 | Garnons-Williams RN , an enthusiastic supporter of the raiding idea , found some ‘ crash ’ air-sea rescue boats for Dudley Clarke 's first raid , which was mounted on the night France surrendered , 23 June , with four landings along a 20-mile stretch of French coast around Boulogne . |
| 4 | The Head of Department was first asked to specify how he and his colleagues assessed their pupils ' work , illustrating the process by assessing a pencil drawing which was mounted on the wall . |
| 5 | The exhibition ends with the remnants of the statue of Stalin which was destroyed on the night of October 23 , 1956 , to show the collapse of a main feature of that sad era — that of the cult of personality . ’ |
| 6 | It is at this point that the old Gotthard road and the railway line both cross to the west side of the valley while the modern motorway in galleries and tunnels cuts through the steep rock-flank of the massive Bristen , which was seen on the horizon earlier in the route . |
| 7 | The latter was done on an old cooker which was based on the storage principle . |
| 8 | It was used until about 1500 , when it was superseded by Modern English , which was based on the dialect of the East Midlands used by Chaucer . |
| 9 | When Husayn ceded sovereignty over the West Bank in July 1988 , UNLU publicly warned the leadership ‘ the PLO outside the occupied territories should not ‘ fill the gap ’ left by Jordan by duplicating its work , which was based on the principle of patronage through corruption . |
| 10 | Maconochie was the originator of the ‘ mark ’ system of prison discipline , which was based on the conviction that the state has a duty to reform criminals , and that positive encouragement was more effective than punitive measures . |
| 11 | The first ten years of the Peloponnesian War , to which we now turn , were to show that he did not , and that Periclean democracy — which was based on the power of money ( ‘ hail in due apportionment of wealth ’ say the chorus of Aeschylus ' Eumenides to Athens , line 996 ) and on the admiration of that power — was more precarious than Pericles had allowed . |
| 12 | He profited from a striking convergence between his philosophy of government , which was based on the need to bypass intermediaries such as parties and establish a direct relationship between himself and the people , and a technology which facilitated precisely that kind of personalized and direct communication . |
| 13 | Yet the above ballets are different again from de Valois ' The Rake 's Progress , which was based on the reality of Hogarth 's pictures . |
| 14 | A reading of the Act of 1968 , which was based on the draft Bill annexed to the report , leads me to the conclusion that , when using the very words of the draft , Parliament intended to implement the committee 's thinking . |
| 15 | The second theme was the adoption of a ‘ just deserts ’ approach based on the principle of proportional punishment as the primary aim of sentencing , though this was qualified in respect of certain types of offence by the third theme which was based on the retention of the now-familiar bifurcatory or twin-track approach to sentencing . |
| 16 | In the late nineteenth century Sinhalese élites invented a racial consciousness which was based on the assumption that all who spoke Sinhala were of Aryan origin . |
| 17 | They were allocated randomly to receive supportive care plus chemotherapy ( arm A ) or supportive care only ( arm B ) in the ratio of 2:1 ( which was based on the assumption of a higher refusal rate in arm B ) . |
| 18 | Opposite the approach road , on the west side of the square , was the centre-piece of his scheme , a Ministerial Reception Suite , which was flanked on the north side by a wing containing the War Office , the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's house and office , and the Prime Minister 's office . |
| 19 | He laughed down his nose , trying to sound smooth , and a huge green plug of congealed snot landed with a ‘ thwap ’ on the back of my hand , which was resting on the bar . |
| 20 | In his concluding press conference Mikoian also made it clear that it was Havana , rather than Moscow , which was stalling on the resumption of diplomatic relations , a remark which was not quoted in the Pravda report ( Dinerstein : 1962 , p. 68 ) . |
| 21 | The covered market which was situated on the corner of Chiswick High Road and Linden Gardens since the open market on that south side of the High Road had been put under its cover , was not popular and , in 1937 , it was closed and the site used for a new Station for Ambulances and Fire-Engines . |
| 22 | Also , the Christ Church Vicarage , Which was situated on the corner of Sutton Lane and Heathfield Gardens , opposite Fromow 's Corner on the south-west Corner of Turnham Green , was demolished , the Vicar moving to a new Vicarage which had been built close by , in Wellesley Road . |
| 23 | Opportunities were also given at the Interior Design International Exhibition in London , where examples of the G.S.A. students ' work was shown on the Stoddard Sekers stand , including the stunning fresco print by John MacAulay which was featured on the stand ceiling . |
| 24 | Still more important is the implementation of the draft constitution which was published on the eve of the referendum . |
| 25 | A total of 59 white rhinos — the most vulnerable population — were de-horned in the programme , which was focused on the Hwange and Kazuma Pan national parks . |
| 26 | Unwin 's middle class " rational cottage " had an aesthetic unity which was focused on the fireside . |
| 27 | It was clear that the ship 's officers spotted simultaneously the gold caste mark which was imprinted on the lieutenant 's cheek . |
| 28 | For example : The library furniture in 1981 was that which was provided on the opening of the school . |
| 29 | As we lay on my raincoat , which was spread on the grass ( one must observe etiquette ) , we talked casually . |
| 30 | I TRY TO WORK AGAINST THE WAY I WAS TAUGHT , WHICH WAS TO WORK ON THE PAINTING AS A WHOLE AND BRING THINGS UP TO A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FINISH |