Example sentences of "on whose [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is first the admission of cravings , sexual and other , felt as unspeakably ignoble , and there is the unappeased fear that the very gifts on whose existence all rescue depends might be mere fantasy , delusion . |
| 2 | She is one of several on whose services I may call from time to time . |
| 3 | Day by day , under the hot September sun , it wound its way steadily southwestwards , stopping for a few hours here , for half a week there , while Balboa attempted — in most cases , successfully — to make and consolidate friendships with the leaders of the tribes on whose lands he trod . |
| 4 | The cheques are then passed back to the branches on whose accounts they are drawn . |
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| 6 | ‘ It depends on whose money it is , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Upon his accession he set about the introduction of the Norman feudal system by dividing his realm up into feus or fiefs , and gave monopolistic trade charters to many towns on whose loyalty he henceforth hoped to rely . |
| 8 | It is one of the paradoxes of contemporary political thinking that at the same time as much conventional theory has tried to restrict the idea of democracy to that of choosing a government from competing elites , it is also widely admitted that the theoretical sovereignty of these democratic governments is not in fact matched by their actual powers over society , particularly in relation to the vast conglomerate firms and multi-national companies on whose policies and decisions the employment and livelihood of so many millions now depend . |
| 9 | As designed by architect Thomas Jeckyll for the London dining room of shipping magnate Frederick R. Leyland , the 20 x 32-foot compartment was lined with sixteenth-century leather wall hangings , and ornamented with walnut wainscotting and trellises on whose shelves were displayed blue-and-white Chinese ceramics . |
| 10 | Within the Labour party there was considerable suspicion of the League , expressed , above all , by the UDC intellectuals on whose expertise in foreign affairs the Party was heavily dependent in the 1920s . |
| 11 | Of course if they can find someone on whose sympathy to play , someone who will pay one hundred or perhaps one hundred and fifty pounds then so much the better for them . |
| 12 | Towards noon , the Lord Hasan 2nd , on whose name be peace , wearing a white garment and a white turban , came down from the castle , approached the pulpit from the right side and in the most perfect manner ascended it . |
| 13 | In democracies that power is attributed to the people , on whose ratification the legitimacy of a constitution depends and , with it , the legitimacy of the governmental system . |
| 14 | The OPCS surveys , on whose findings the benefit reforms were premised , have been criticised as significantly underestimating the extra costs of disability . |
| 15 | While most eighteenth-century beaux were obviously not disposed to live within their income and affected a bland indifference to the need to manage their personal finances , the tradesmen , the creditors on whose forbearance their insouciance depended , were campaigning against any legislation which seemed to reduce any further the chances of recovering what was owed them . |
| 16 | In the time of Diocletian the principal apartment was a long gallery on the south side facing the sea on whose façade a magnificent colonnade stretched along the Adriatic . |
| 17 | For the England team , on whose success depends not only the financial viability of the counties themselves , but also the capacity of the game to attract young people to play and watch it as a part of their heritage , the preparation for Test cricket provided by the present hotch-potch is clearly unsatisfactory . |
| 18 | It is a special category of voluntary school on whose management committee the education authority is represented , and for whose buildings and equipment the education authority takes financial responsibility . |
| 19 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 20 | Secondly , the judiciary can impose limits on whose views should be taken into account when discretion is exercised . |
| 21 | Jack glanced across the table at Ray Shepherd , on whose shoulder black blood was congealing . |
| 22 | To the man on whose support he would now increasingly depend , he wrote a little before the end , ‘ It is not pleasant , Thomas Poole ! to have worked 14 weeks for nothing — for nothing — nay — to have given the Public in addition to that toil five & 40 pounds ! ’ |
| 23 | His output in these later years shows that he made every effort to adapt to changing economic circumstances : Austria was then at war with the Ottoman Empire , and the war effort had begun to drain the financial resources of the upper-class patrons on whose support Mozart relied . |
| 24 | The measures were designed to combat the economic crisis , rising inflation and industrial unrest , but failed to win the backing of the Green Ecology Party and the Communist Left Party ( VpK ) , on whose support the Social Democrats depended in parliament . |
| 25 | In Tasmania there was increasing friction between the minority ALP administration and the Green Party legislators on whose support it depended . |
| 26 | To this end , he boosted the standing and weaponry of the armed forces on whose support his prestige as a monarch substantially rested . |
| 27 | I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along , rather that it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him . |
| 28 | Thus the farmer on whose land the first find was made discovered his land was being prospected only when he found the prospectors sampling streams on his land . |
| 29 | It was Jim who had investigated the crash site and carried out the negotiations with the very helpful and understanding farming family on whose land the aircraft had crashed . |
| 30 | In addition , and in recognition of the difficult position of the landowner on whose land the find is made but who in law has no claim to any precious objects , trespassing in search of treasure would carry a maximum £5000 fine . |