Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] on which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wisdom and strategic vision laid the solid foundations on which we will continue to build . |
| 2 | He would ‘ age ’ the wooden panels and painted surfaces on which he had lavished so much skill and care by exposing them to extremes of dryness and humidity , direct heat and cold ; and he used controlled violence to inflict scratches and abrasions . |
| 3 | The US also released a list of other European products on which they are considering imposing additional duties if negotiations with the EC ‘ failed to result in adequate reform ’ of its system of agricultural subsidies on oilseed exports . |
| 4 | They sought both to contest his method and to expose the political values on which his theory rested . |
| 5 | no , not directly , each regional office would have a regional M D , managing director , who would actually be on the board , the divisional board with me , each regional M D would then have his own regional board on which there would be er finance er finance director , sales and marketing director , construction director , land director , not all of them , all seven had that board immediately , some developed that board , grew that board over a couple of years |
| 6 | And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way . |
| 7 | She could see that , although never aggressive , he was the strong rock on which his family relied . |
| 8 | The problem with capitalism was not that it would fall , but that it would continue its remarkable success in raising real output and real consumption per capita , which in turn would have the effects of undermining those very social institutions on which its success depended , and creating a civilisation hostile to its continued existence . |
| 9 | Article 4 gives some guidelines for the " unfairness test " as follows : " If necessary the unfairness of a contractual term shall be assessed taking into account the nature of the goods or services for which the contract was concluded and by referring , at the time of conclusion of the contract , to all the circumstances attending the conclusion of the contract and to all the other terms of the contract or of another contract on which it is dependent " . |
| 10 | Barthes 's accounts of striptease , and all the other cultural phenomena on which he writes in Mythologies , imply that these phenomena are meaningful and that there is a ‘ true ’ meaning to which his analysis aspires . |
| 11 | There were few subjects on which he did not have firm opinions . |
| 12 | How far these two constructions — the adjective with the verb and the adverb with the verb — should be considered in company with constructions such as : ( 15 ) Heidi saw the stork falter ( 16 ) kiss her goodbye ! is an interesting question , but one which would take us well beyond the bounds of the adjectival study on which we are focusing here . ) |
| 13 | When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient . |
| 14 | The defendant was charged with the murder of Sharon Lewis on a fresh indictment on which he was tried before Parnell J. and a jury . |
| 15 | If it does not facilitate economic growth and expansion then it limits its capacity to raise taxes and so cuts into the public revenue on which its own power depends . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , there was a simple weight-loss equation on which it was possible to estimate the maximum amount of weight likely to be lost each week on any specific calorie allowance . |
| 17 | ‘ Sophie , ’ I begged , but she walked on , with a flick of a navy pleated skirt on which I recognized a cigarette burn . |
| 18 | What happens when the unconscious child in Joan Halton finds yet again that she is always losing out , this time to her husband , to his old car on which he dotes or to his mother who is still demanding so much of his time and attention , and that he appears to be forgetting that he is now married and has new first loyalties ? |
| 19 | However , there are some matters on which we will seek clarification or assurance . |
| 20 | Back came a signed copy of her latest book ‘ The Best of Edna Jacques ’ and a letter typed on the same old machine on which she pounded out her poems . |
| 21 | well that 's very kind of you that 's another basis on which it might , albeit innocently , had mislead a prospective purchaser , correct ? |
| 22 | What we need is , firstly , a more specific indication of what is meant by a route to chaos and , secondly , some ideas on which we can draw in Sections 24.5 and 24.7 . |
| 23 | This is another site on which there has been a farm for hundreds of years . |
| 24 | Anyone who has witnessed my hon. Friend and his especially outstanding and noticeable ties will see that Redditch has many lively things on which it can be commended to the nation . |
| 25 | A great deal of very useful research can be carried out wholly from documentary sources of one kind or another , but often social researchers find themselves in a position where they want to investigate social behaviour on which there is very little published research or perhaps what research has been published is not relevant enough to their own particular areas of interest . |
| 26 | Similarly , the Soviets plan to supplement the Caterpillar and Komatsu side-boom pipelayers on which they have so far relied , with a new machine that the Sterlitamak works in the Urals will make . |
| 27 | He could quite clearly see through it to the crushed grass on which it lay but , when he gingerly touched a scale that was a mere golden sheen on thin air , it felt solid enough . |
| 28 | This explains the rules under which the library operates , making it clear that SST simply provides a repository and distribution service for the software and holds no responsibility of its fitness for purpose or the magnetic media on which it is stored . |
| 29 | Another topic on which we touched , because it was one of our preoccupations , was London and the most desirable districts in which to live . |
| 30 | By day or by night , when its lights so insolently interrupt what ought to be the dark solitude of the mountains , this extension of Saint-Lary is an offence ; only when the weather closes in , and the clouds hang low , returning the high ledge on which it stands to a very satisfactory invisibility , is the valley 's honour temporarily saved . |