Example sentences of "which [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials are now negotiating a $1 billion facility with the IMF , which insists on tougher credit overall . |
| 2 | MSC are opposed to schemes which can be defined by them as political or critical of prevailing government policy — in practice , this leaves courses for women which concentrate on traditional job skills and traditional job expectations — even though those skills are not valued in the present economic climate and the opportunities for women in the labour market are negligible . |
| 3 | Some are service agencies providing painting and decorating , gardening and catering services to the local community ; others have developed workshops which concentrate on one business activity — baking , furniture renovation and picture-framing are examples . |
| 4 | ‘ It is just a country festival , which goes on all night . |
| 5 | Out of the surplus-value which is unproductively consumed there will obviously be a portion which goes on personal consumption . |
| 6 | He makes his screen debut in The Power Of One , a powerful Warner Brothers production which goes on general release this weekend . |
| 7 | A practical one year course which builds on past experience and leads to a nationally recognised qualification . |
| 8 | This research , which builds on earlier work financed by the ESRC , analyses the whole process of ‘ redemocratisation ’ in Brazil , including the vitally important elections of November 1982 . |
| 9 | Mrs Burgwin , headmistress of the Orange Street School in Southwark , told the Royal Commission which reported on elementary school education in 1888 that : |
| 10 | It 's a traditional vintage type , with individually adjustable saddles mounted on a plate which pivots on two height adjustable posts . |
| 11 | It is a collective liability which lies on British Rail . ’ |
| 12 | Parents can use a repertoire of techniques for behaviour change which build on each other . |
| 13 | It was there that Mr Faith , 51 , and his co-star Zoe Wanamaker , 43 , filmed the new series of the BBC1 drama Love Hurts which starts on New Year 's day . |
| 14 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 15 | The first is the standing of authorities , which depends on effective decentralisation . |
| 16 | Adult mortality exerts no influence , except ( in the present model ) on males , where R m is a function of operational sex ratio , which depends on differential adult mortality . |
| 17 | He suggested that the police search the Sentier area of Paris , centre of the Jewish-run garment industry which depends on immigrant labour . |
| 18 | This is another skewed reality , of course , for in their pursuit of the ‘ prig ’ they are merely following a version of justice which depends on blind acquiescence to establishment values of honesty . |
| 19 | Or in the same general category there are institutions like some of those in broadcasting ( in Great Britain the BBC ) which depend on one form or another of public revenue but which direct their own production . |
| 20 | Hilton uses words like " shape " and " image " ( " oure lord God schope man in soule to his owne ymage and liknes " ) ( 1.63r. – 193 ) which depend on spatial dimension for their meaning ; but as he defines them they point to an integration of human sentient powers in a consciousness of transcendent love and knowledge . |
| 21 | One way of doing this is to establish , within the whole group framework , small groups with common interests , which depend on each other . |
| 22 | This is a lesson well learned in terms of the aquarium also , as it is quite impossible to keep reef-building corals and the large number of anemones and various other coelenterates which depend on this association with zooxanthellae , in captivity , without high-intensity lighting of the correct spectral range . |
| 23 | However , the present winds on Venus are acting to increase the retrograde rate of spin , and thus the present rotation of Venus may be a balance between the tidal forces , which depend on the Sun 's gravitational field , and the winds , which depend on solar radiation . |
| 24 | The draft directive has , however , been criticised because not only would it extend data protection to manual data such as card indexes exempt under much existing legislation but it would also have a substantial impact on charities which depend on direct mail to get support and sponsorship . |
| 25 | He did an ever expanding trade in cars and trucks under his big red neon sign , which proclaimed on one side FRIZZELL 'S GARAGE — YOU CAN TRUST MAXIE , and on the other FRIZZELL 'S GARAGE — I GREW WITH ALBERTA . |
| 26 | In the first two books there are also units which focus on situational English , while in the later parts of the series a functional syllabus is combined with a structural grading . |
| 27 | A limited-plan approach uses the historical budget as a foundation and then costs the priorities — that is , those elements of the School Development Plan which focus on desirable change . |
| 28 | They can be used with a problem-solving element to develop a knowledge of semantic meaning as signalled by lexis and syntax within sentences and can be used in support of tasks which focus on pragmatic meaning by providing a consciousness-raising extension to communication-oriented activities . |
| 29 | The 11th segment is present in the adults of the lower orders where its tergum is represented by the epiproct above the anus ( often fused with the 10th tergum ) , while vestiges of its sternum are seen in the paraprocts which lie on either side of the anus ( Fig. 42 ) . |
| 30 | Tests in use today for personnel selection include both multiple aptitude batteries like the Differential Aptitude test which provides the kind of profile described above , and specific aptitude tests like the General Clerical Test which concentrates on one group of skills . |