Example sentences of "which [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Structuralism may be employed to excavate the principles of classification and order which unite what on the surface appear as highly disparate domains , so that for a particular society food preparation , kinship and myth may be revealed as transformations of each other . |
| 2 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 3 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 4 | ( He gets up and ‘ accidently ’ scratches the record — which knocks it on the head for Vixen — and me , since we are reviewing the singles on the editor 's stereo . ) |
| 5 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 6 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 7 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 8 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 9 | Set the microphone so that it picks up that group and use the resulting recording to set tasks for trainees which focus them on the learner . |
| 10 | The historical development of associations concerned with the employment relationship during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be explained as a negative response on the part of employers to accommodate the external challenges which confronted them on the basis of three broad sets of factors . |
| 11 | Solid and secret behind a high stone wall it remains a world apart from the crawling traffic which skirts it on the routes out of town . |
| 12 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 13 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 14 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 15 | April 1 , Bath : Mr Major was struck by a single egg , which hit him on the shoulder and neck . |
| 16 | Oh blimey , the Euphoria one was the only one which grabbed me on the day , but I 've a lot of attachment to The Orb … |
| 17 | After the original grants to her supporters in the coup d'état of 1762 which placed her on the throne , Catherine made very few presents of this kind during the decade 1762–72 , when her dependence on noble support is usually supposed to have been at its height . |
| 18 | What is the role of the to which distinguishes them on the level of the sign ? |
| 19 | The light then passes through a small transparent section of the protective outer coating ( the cornea ) , and continues via a lens which focuses it on the back of the retina . |
| 20 | When Bruno landed his Radio One job , she followed him south , a move which put her on the road to showbiz fame when she was signed up to host Saturday morning kids ' show , Going Live . |
| 21 | To try to discover the form which put him on the verge of Ryder Cup honours in 1989 he finished 17th on the money list that year Walton has gone through around a dozen putters . |
| 22 | Tony Greig obviously was n't seeing the situation as I was and bowled him a bouncer first ball , which struck him on the point of the elbow . |
| 23 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 24 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 25 | When we are too old to force our limbs up the crags and are ready to regale our grandchildren with tales of derring-do it will be the epics which have them on the edge of their seats . |