Example sentences of "which [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. Farmers in the valleys and on the edges of Dartmoor and Exmoor concentrate more on rearing young cattle , sheep and lambs , which graze on the rough moorland pasture . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The tendency to centralise power over time is frankly admitted by the Commission , albeit diplomatically : ‘ the list of policies which qualify on the grounds of being more efficiently discharged at Community level than at national level is likely to evolve gradually over time . |
| 6 | As such it is located between geography and soil science , which Bridges visualizes as concerned more with the biology , chemistry and physics of soil all of which converge on the study of soil fertility and crop production . |
| 7 | There are also a number of projects which concentrate on the production of materials and resources for educational use . |
| 8 | In the case of Gagnon and Simon and those influenced by them ( such as Kenneth Plummer ) , the theoretical framework derives from Meadean social psychology , which sees the individual as having a developing personality which is created in an interaction with others ; and from labelling theories of deviance , which concentrate on the public processes of stigmatisation . |
| 9 | Sitcoms like Love Thy Neighbour , Till Death Us Do Part and Mind Your Language were stuffed to bursting with gags which operated on the principle that differences of colour or culture were an endless source of easy laughs . |
| 10 | The advanced technology of Ticene means that any grease splashes which land on the inside of the oven , spread themselves over a large area and burn away at normal cooking temperatures . |
| 11 | These flowers are visited by larger bees such as species of Xylocopa , which land on the hood-like ligule and forage underneath it for pollen . |
| 12 | [ For November SPD congress which agreed on the need to tighten the law see p. 39208 . ] |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Luxurious private supper rooms in the West-End known as ‘ the finishes ’ organized part-orgies part entertainments which centred on the ‘ erotic ’ degradation of women by male clients . |
| 15 | Within a few years of the introduction of the Dip.AD , it became apparent that all was not well and discontent in some of the art colleges culminated in the so-called ‘ revolution ’ of 1968 which centred on the then Hornsey and Guildford Colleges of Art . |
| 16 | Three congressional panels and the Justice Department were conducting the investigations , which opened in mid-May , and which centred on the HUD 's Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation Programme . |
| 17 | The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister , Mahmud Va'ezi , visited Bonn on Dec. 11-12 for discussions which centred on the hostage issue . |
| 18 | After several months of growing pressure the " Iraqgate " affair — which centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence — burst into the open during October . |
| 19 | Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres visited Japan on Dec. 14-17 , for talks which centred on the Middle East peace process . |
| 20 | More than two hundred officers took part in the operation which centred on the Toxteth area of the city . |
| 21 | Even so , in the diffuse community which centred on the church there might be those willing to shelter him . |
| 22 | A committed member of the circle of reformers which centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , he spent four years in the second half of the 1850s investigating the financial procedures of various west European countries and the United States . |
| 23 | Carry on like this throughout the row until only one is left , which goes on the last needle , overlapping the one already on it . |
| 24 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 25 | Locomotion is effected by undulating waves of muscle contraction and relaxation which alternate on the dorsal and ventral aspects of the worm . |
| 26 | Our new critical practice is showing that the questions we pose on Renaissance writing , which insist on the importance of contextualisation , reflect our own concerns with the function of language and value within society . |
| 27 | or sorry it sends a signal to the adrenal glands which sit on the top of the kidneys yeah , and pumps adrenalin into the blood which again is something that makes you ready and that 's what all these things about about a dry throat a wonky voice a shaking limbs is all about a very primitive instinct of fight or flight . |
| 28 | In 1964 she completed the Keep Fit Association 's teacher training course , which led on the Medau teacher training . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Many note that the ‘ traditional ’ has been largely replaced by ‘ informal ’ music which plays on the emotions , with ‘ joy ’ being given great prominence . |