Example sentences of "which [vb -s] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 2 | In a discipline like psychology , which insists on the specificity of its vocabulary , procedures and concerns , feminist initiatives which stay close to the traditional discipline are valuable . |
| 3 | There is also more overlapping , of a kind which insists on the notion of depth : a despairing woman on the far side of the statue from which the lesser Ajax is about to drag Cassandra to rape her ; hidden faces ( Priam 's and Aeneas 's — he is shown at one end , escaping with his father and son ) . |
| 4 | Many note that the ‘ traditional ’ has been largely replaced by ‘ informal ’ music which plays on the emotions , with ‘ joy ’ being given great prominence . |
| 5 | There is a passage in Mr Palomar which plays on the dialectic between speech ( or communicative language ) and silence and which might be taken to foreshadow the structure of the book as a whole . |
| 6 | The next level up is the Mach 2 , which builds on the Mach 1 by doubling the basic amount of logic with the same pin-count , and with an additional buried macrocell added for each output . |
| 7 | Bernstein and Reynolds give a very full treatment of the subject , much of which turns on the interpretation of provisions in commercial leases . |
| 8 | As the pressure for the hot system is provided by the cold feed tank , which sits on the ceiling joists — now a few inches below the new floor level — you would have to raise it as high as possible . |
| 9 | This light emulsion contains an ultra-fine powder ingredient which sits on the skin and alters the rate at which light bounces off it : the result is a complexion which refuses to look or act its age . |
| 10 | In the 1940s , Angélique Arvanitaki , and in the 1950s and 1960s Ladislav Tauc , in Paris , began studies of the sea mollusc Aplysia , a slug-like hermaphrodite creature which lives on the sea floor close to the beach and grazes on seaweed . |
| 11 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 12 | The smaller T110 , which stands on the workbench and carves pieces up to 18in tall by 10in diameter ; low relief panels 10in wide and limitless length ; and spindles 36in long by 8in diameter . |
| 13 | The village association committee runs the village hall which stands on the field . |
| 14 | which stands on the sideboard , |
| 15 | On Saturday the two prelates attended a service of vespers at the Church of San Gregorio , which stands on the site where Pope Gregory sent St Augustine of Canterbury off to become the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597 . |
| 16 | The name ‘ Satis House ’ , however , CD took from that of another Rochester residence which stands on the site of the mansion of Richard Watts . |
| 17 | There is a very well-stocked general store incorporating the post office , a public house , the Bosville Arms , which stands on the site of a previous public house of several centuries ago , and a petrol station and garage . |
| 18 | A.D. 130 , which stands on the summit of the acropolis city . |
| 19 | The Egyptians are asking for Cleopatra 's Needle , the great granite obelisk of 1500 BC which stands on the Thames embankment just a few yards from the Savoy . |
| 20 | Another listed building is the fine windmill which stands on the hill above the village and makes an outstanding local landmark . |
| 21 | One night , early in February 1518 , the three of us were in a tavern called the Chariot , a cosy little ale house which stands on the corner of the Rue des Mineurs near the church of Saint Sulpice . |
| 22 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
| 23 | First the system which develops on the basis of the covenant includes inter alia a complex set of property rights , income transfer mechanisms , and restrictions on the capital and labour markets , in addition to a set of values and prescriptions which prove a rigorous test of motives . |
| 24 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 25 | On some islands , there is a lethargic variety of sea-snake which lies on the sand in the shallow , and which can give a nasty poisonous bite when stood on . |
| 26 | One belongs to Kythera , which lies on the trading route from Pylos to Crete . |
| 27 | One of these is to Liechtenstein , the tiny principality which lies on the border of Switzerland and Austria . |
| 28 | If he wins his group he will meet Colchester colleague and world number seven Chris Walker , the second seed , in the main event which starts on the Thursday at Beckenham and Cheshunt . |
| 29 | So what you 're saying , in terms of the eight minutes , is that something , an event which happens on the sun , which is visible , takes about eight minutes to reach us . |
| 30 | The Times , more restrained , came to the same conclusions : ‘ To most sensible , rational people , a verdict which depends on the evidence of a man like Mathews , in the circumstances in which he gave that evidence , can not be safe . ’ |