Example sentences of "which [vb past] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dispute between , on the one side , the News International newspapers ( Sun and News of the World ) , the Times Group ( The Times and The Sunday Times ) and others , and , on the other side , the unions ( SOGAT 82 , the NGA and others ) which centred on the new site at Wapping , followed the breakdown of negotiations and the dismissal of all those on strike . |
| 2 | Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres visited Japan on Dec. 14-17 , for talks which centred on the Middle East peace process . |
| 3 | Thus Morrissette was able to perform readings of his work which concentrated on the psychological realism of the texts in question . |
| 4 | David Hall exhibited at MOMA an elegant piece which drew on the lost potentialities of the Nipkow disc , mechanical heart of the early Baird Televisor , ‘ superseded ’ and eradicated by a progress which has been synonymous with standardization . |
| 5 | To put it very generally , from the mid-1950s ( the rock 'n' roll moment ) to the end of the 1960s the dominant sensibility in pop was a rock sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on the Marxist critique of mass culture . |
| 6 | But there was always a second non-evangelical element in his political support which drew on the independent unionist populist tradition . |
| 7 | Dalmatian architects and sculptors developed a style which built on the Romanesque tradition but which blended elements from the later Gothic and Renaissance styles . |
| 8 | And her voice was a parody of a servant 's showing dissent , a politeness which verged on the impolite . |
| 9 | The politics of economic reform in the Soviet Union were dominated in 1990-1991 by the choice of strategy for making the transition from an administrative-command to a market-based economy , and by emergency measures to tackle the immediate economic crisis which verged on the catastrophic . |
| 10 | As a piece , although the overall process had taken almost a century to unfold and the measures were sometimes half-hearted in terms of their practical realisation , these changes signalled the arrival of a distinctively modern penal system which rested on the reformative and deterrent influence of the prison as its major instrument . |
| 11 | About a million tons of lava are pouring every day from the fissure which opened on the Sicilian volcano in December . |
| 12 | Chainarong Noonpakdi , head of the First army region and responsible for directing the army units which fired on the unarmed demonstrators , was made director of the Institute of Army Academics . |
| 13 | The second half of the year witnessed a superficially arcane debate on vodka which touched on the whole question of government finances ( because more than one-third of the state 's revenue derived from its involvement in the vodka trade ) . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , it is inescapably true that the familial ideology was accompanied by , and often relied on , a vast underbelly of prostitution , which fed on the double standard and an authoritarian moral code . |
| 15 | Smaller raids which followed on the south-German cities of Munich , Augsburg , and Nuremberg , had a disproportionate psychological effect in demonstrating the extent of allied air supremacy in the capacity to reach so far south , and in illustrating that few could now consider themselves immune from the dangers of bombing . |
| 16 | A doctor is called , and he 's diagnosed as having a minor case of blood poisoning , caused by drinking too heavily ( a three-day stint which started on the transatlantic flight and ended in the White Horse Tavern ) . |
| 17 | The attack was denounced by the Hungarian government , which called on the Romanian authorities to stop such " terrorist acts " . |
| 18 | These feelings of dwindling authority and social discontinuity which focused on the young were informed by the wider political insecurities of this anything-but-carefree era which was plagued by engulfing fears of national decline and incohesion . |
| 19 | Basse-Navarre , or Lower Navarre , was originally the French end of the kingdom of Navarre , the larger part of which lay on the far side of the Pyrenees , in Spain . |
| 20 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 21 | A big hand indicated the pair of envelopes which lay on the unpolished table top . |
| 22 | She shivered , her right hand moving restlessly towards the gold chain with its rectangular pendant which lay on the exposed skin of her neck above the scooped-out neckline of her dress : Rune 's parting gift given to her that dull morning when , after having insisted on collecting her from her hotel , he had driven her to the airport at Kastrup . |
| 23 | Further corroborative evidence was provided by the palaeomagnetic record of ocean sediments containing particles of iron-rich minerals which lay on the basaltic oceanic crust . |
| 24 | Shallow water clastic sediments were deposited in north Devon , which lay on the northern margin of the basin . |
| 25 | Which he did , a good two feet clear of the gaping open ditch which lay on the blind side of the hedge . |
| 26 | Rupert picked up the book which lay on the little table by the fire . |
| 27 | This recommended the adoption of a contributory social security system which improved on the existing system by protecting all citizens in sickness , unemployment and old age . |
| 28 | We wandered on , enjoying the flowers which grew on the arid soil : black meddick , heath bed straw , spring vetch , storks bill , red fescue , wild pansy , scarlet pimpernel . |
| 29 | Alan Rawley , prosecuting , told the judge , Mr Justice Waterhouse , there would now be no trial on four other counts which appeared on the original indictment , involving other alleged land deals . |
| 30 | The rise of Class War , who have no distinctive ideology apart from rabid anti-authoritarianism , represents an obvious reaction to the marxist-leninist model of political organisation which prevailed on the left up to the early 1980s . |