Example sentences of "on which we [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next possible commemorative year on which we might hang an Open Day and other celebrations would appear to be 1999 , marking 300 years since the Royal Charter was granted to James Sutherland ( 12 January , 1699 ) . |
| 2 | In his inaugural lecture he imagines a utopian plurality of languages on which we would draw ‘ according to the truth of desire ’ : |
| 3 | It has elicited a number of interesting points on which we would do well to reflect . |
| 4 | It now runs quite well apart from two problems on which we would like your advice . |
| 5 | We know that the actual reorganization is going to cost thirty million I would have thought that every possible drainage problem could ever West Sussex could easily be rectified with thirty million pounds and we could all name a project er on which we would like to spend thirty million pounds . |
| 6 | And although no precise mechanism for contextual retrieval has been given , the parallel with occasion setting has been noted and forms a basis on which we may build . |
| 7 | The dream ( on which we may try hard to impose a narrative structure , to make sense of it ) is unlike much fantasy in that it often does n't , of itself , contain any such structure , and the ‘ story ’ , if it tells one , may be deeply unintelligible to us . |
| 8 | There is no such provision in law , and that is one of the things on which we shall legislate . |
| 9 | They are , by way of the summary description on which we shall depend until Chapter 5 , electrochemical events . |
| 10 | I am sure that this will not be the last occasion on which we shall debate this issue . |
| 11 | This is the last occasion on which we shall have the opportunity to debate foreign affairs and the Gracious Speech in this Parliament . |
| 12 | Some of them may involve social policies ; others may involve environmental policies on which we shall have to give ground during the next 10 , 15 or 20 years . |
| 13 | It becomes possible , if we remain committed to living and working with men , to identify the terms on which we shall participate and what re-negotiation must go on if these relationships are to be transformed . |
| 14 | These are matters on which we must ponder . |
| 15 | OVER coming weeks , this page will cover subjects on which we 'd like to hear from readers . |
| 16 | ‘ While the remedial action we have taken in all our major territories is proving effective , the need to contain costs and to underwrite selectively will remain the basis on which we will continue to develop our business worldwide ’ . |
| 17 | His wisdom and strategic vision laid the solid foundations on which we will continue to build . |
| 18 | However , there are some matters on which we will seek clarification or assurance . |
| 19 | The cross of Jesus is God 's final and decisive ‘ No ! ’ to all that : it leaves us literally nothing of our own on which we can rely . |
| 20 | We have the Association for the Disabled for the blind , we have Age Concern but there is n't a for the mentally or for mental health or for whatever it might be called , and these groups are very useful in providing a focal point for liaison between statutory organizations , including the health service , and the users and carers , and providing points of lobbying concern , points on which we can comment and that that increasingly is the way we 're working in the community care consultation process . |
| 21 | However , the dimensions on which we can locate units , such as people , in some property space can be of different kinds and certainly of more than two dimensions . |
| 22 | And that entire pool of knowledge then becomes a single resource on which we can draw in solving our problems . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Everything I have seen and heard in the ensuing months reinforces my belief that drift-netting is a manifestation of an attitude which , unchecked , will in due course murder the only planet on which we can make our home . ’ |
| 25 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
| 26 | There is always a hard core of trusty stalwarts on which we can depend but most people are not by nature volunteers . |
| 27 | The present convention is long established and provides a basis on which we can stand . |
| 28 | As for the question of partnership and friendship in the 1990s , the joint declaration that we signed sets out a series of bases on which we can improve our relationship with Russia . |
| 29 | I do not see the theological basis on which we can go on saying that the human species is of such overwhelming and unique and colossal significance that it justifies as a matter of course the institutional exploitation of billions of other species . |
| 30 | That 's good news in itself , but it 's also good in that it provides a bedrock on which we can build sustainable recovery of output and and job creation . |