Example sentences of "which [vb past] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Named after the famous battleships and secured by a £12 patent , the twenty Dreadnoughts which operated on Blackpool Promenade from the turn of the Century until 1934 , were certainly unique . |
| 2 | Founded in 1860 by a group of railwaymen at the Eastern Counties Railway works at Stratford , it had progressed steadily , in part through amalgamation with smaller societies at Canning Town in 1882 , Plaistow in 1883 and Beckton in 1892 , all of which centred on colonies of skilled and semiskilled labour ( Marriott 1984 ) . |
| 3 | Mr Essex trained at Dartington College of Arts , a progressive place of the 60s which centred on music , art and drama and which , he says , proved to be the making of him in many ways . |
| 4 | Hitherto , the Frelimo president was also President of the Republic ; the proposed change followed discussions at the fifth Frelimo congress in July 1989 , which centred on ways to broaden popular support for the party and strengthen national unity [ see p. 36804 ] . |
| 5 | In our discussion of theories of crime , in Chapter Two , we examined various theoretical approaches which centred on class differences in crime and , in particular , juvenile delinquency . |
| 6 | The head of MI5 , and formerly a member of the ‘ domestic subversion ’ department , which snooped on Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman ( who went on to become Kinnock 's press secretary at the last election , and Labour 's health spokeswoman , respectively ) . |
| 7 | Such a lifespan is not uncommon for a captive tortoise , the oldest one recorded being a male , which lived on Mauritius for 152 years . |
| 8 | A communiqué was released on the last day of the sixth plenary session of the 13th Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) central committee which met on March 9-12 . |
| 9 | The government called a session of the National Security Council ( NSC , comprising the four heads of the armed forces and police , the President , the President of the Senate , the President of the Supreme Court , and the Comptroller-General ) , which met on March 27 and agreed that each branch of the armed forces would make its own report public . |
| 10 | A session of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of CIS Armed Forces which met on Nov. 18 was , however , unable to reach agreement on a specific list of units which should comprise CIS strategic forces under the new definition . |
| 11 | Mr Vanner , not being a member of the committee which met on Monday night , was not able to speak on his motion , but Tory colleague Doug Pallett was the only councillor to support it . |
| 12 | The ANC also received encouragement from the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) which announced on April 29 that it would consider staging a general strike if the government failed to take effective steps to halt the violence . |
| 13 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 14 | The moderate section of the FLNC , which announced on Jan. 8 that it was freezing all military action because this was alienating the Corsican people , attributed these murders to Mafia-style property speculators . |
| 15 | The group discussions ( Appendix II ) , which concentrated on people who it has been suggested might face difficulty getting credit because their backgrounds might not find favour with lenders , again showed very little sign that even ‘ problem ’ customers are often refused credit which they try to get . |
| 16 | In the first volume which concentrated on recordings dating from 1920 to 1931 even the dim and distant sound can not mar the sheer charisma of much of the playing . |
| 17 | Until he was fifteen he had private tuition which concentrated on classics and law , but in August 1803 he was able , with much difficulty , to break away to sea , entering the Royal Navy in 1803 . |
| 18 | At Vladivostok , the station which rose on Nicholas 's foundation stone was a baleful prison-like building with two blocks linked by a single-storey entrance range . |
| 19 | Other shares on the move today included Rolls Royce which benefited from continued overseas demand and British Steel which rose on news of a major contract with Iran . |
| 20 | News of these transactions gradually leaked out and the matter was investigated by a parliamentary select committee , which reported on party lines . |
| 21 | Professor Michael Rutter , a prominent member of the Lawther committee which reported on lead three years ago , told a conference at the Royal Institution that ‘ it now seems ’ that the Lawther committee ‘ very substantially underestimated the risk from lead in petrol . ’ |
| 22 | The days leading up to the fifth anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station , in the Soviet Ukraine , were marked by a series of reports on the consequences of the accident ( which occurred on April 26 , 1986 — see pp. 34460-62 ) . |
| 23 | I join the hon. Gentleman in his moving remarks about graveyards across the Province and in his condemnation of sectarian attacks such as that which occurred on Friday last week . |
| 24 | The accident , which occurred on August 13 , did not involve the release of radiation or damage to the reactor core . |
| 25 | The bomber attacked would seem to have been an aircraft ( 4D+CT ) of 9/KG 30 which crashed on return , Lt. Albrecht Irion and all his crew being reported lost . |
| 26 | The fifteen year old was a passenger in the Escort XR3 which crashed on Shaftesbury Avenue in Swindon . |
| 27 | We may never be certain , but it seems most likely that the Odonata were part of a cargo in a trans-stellar vessel which crashed on Earth by accident . |
| 28 | This natural theology was then supplemented and completed by ‘ revealed theology ’ , which drew on scripture and the teaching of the church . |
| 29 | The dealer ‘ showed you his marvels , caressing them with his hands and his eyes , then cursing the fate which weighed on Modigliani and spitting in disgust … what poetry ’ , he said . |
| 30 | Mitchell , in his analysis of Hoccleve 's works , calls it ‘ an emotional disorder which bordered on insanity ’ . |