Example sentences of "which [vb past] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So , Fearnley was under continuous threat from the two or three agencies which operated on an international basis , and especially from the most powerful , Mike Martinez . |
| 3 | Partial debt remission would reward enterprises which agreed on a restructuring programme with their creditors . |
| 4 | [ For November SPD congress which agreed on the need to tighten the law see p. 39208 . ] |
| 5 | A notably successful example of a glass shot ( see page 44 ) appears in the Powell/Pressburger version of Rumer Godden 's 1938 novel , Black Narcissus ( 1947 ) , which centred on a small group of nuns in the Indian Himalayas . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister , Mahmud Va'ezi , visited Bonn on Dec. 11-12 for discussions which centred on the hostage issue . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres visited Japan on Dec. 14-17 , for talks which centred on the Middle East peace process . |
| 13 | More than two hundred officers took part in the operation which centred on the Toxteth area of the city . |
| 14 | Even so , in the diffuse community which centred on the church there might be those willing to shelter him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Next morning the whole town and bay were shrouded in mist which condensed on every cold surface . |
| 18 | In 1964 she completed the Keep Fit Association 's teacher training course , which led on the Medau teacher training . |
| 19 | It did not foresee the massive commercialisation of the 1970s and '80s which rode on the back of the expansion of the limited-over game . |
| 20 | At the meeting on the 5 November the BSI Standards Board agreed to recommend to the BSI Main Board , which met on the 28 November , that the new body be permanently established . |
| 21 | Rather neatly , the sale 's top lot , Mrs Johnson 's bureau plat by Leleu , which sold on a commission bid at £1.1. million ( $2 million ; estimate in excess of £750,000 ) , had been purchased by her from Christie 's for £300,000 in 1981 , where it had been consigned from Meikleour , having formed part of the original collection . |
| 22 | A record price for seventeenth-century emerald jewellery was achieved for the magnificent Spanish Colonial emerald and gold cross ( lot 153 ) , salvaged from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas , which sold on the telephone for £210,000 ( est. £150,000–200,000 ) while the next lot , another emerald and gold brooch , made £55,000 ( est. £40,000–60,000 ) . |
| 23 | Thus Morrissette was able to perform readings of his work which concentrated on the psychological realism of the texts in question . |
| 24 | He began in the autumn term and just before starting this new career he and Clinton van Sieclen wrote a paper on the theory of cold fusion , which concentrated on the muon catalysed fusion but had some prescient remarks about the possibility that fusion might be influenced by pressure and materials . |
| 25 | The present research supplements that carried out from 1982-85 at King 's College London , which concentrated on the implementation of the Scheme in areas with large independent day schools . |
| 26 | Lafontaine , although regarded as a better orator than Kohl , was unable to draw support for a campaign which concentrated on the cost of unification ( he had initially opposed the treaty on economic and monetary union — see pp. 37535-36 ) and on social and environmental issues . |
| 27 | Kang rejected Yon 's draft document , proposing instead a 10-point Basic Agreement on Inter-Korean Relations — which concentrated on the achievement of basic confidence-building measures — as a prelude to the negotiation of a non-aggression agreement . |
| 28 | The Treasury prepared a response which concentrated on the difficulty of translating economic theory into practice , and on the political implications of the economists ' suggestions . |
| 29 | The clear image of Curtis 's hostile face which flickered on the screen of his inner vision , sent a tide of rage surging through him , lending him strength to overcome the pain . |
| 30 | One of the principal figures within the Association was to be Henry Newbolt , imperialist poet , celebrant of the mystique of the public school , future chairman of the Board of Education Committee which reported on the state of English in 1921 , and — like Haldane — a supporter of the national efficiency group in its aims of planning imperial policy , improving education , and recapturing commercial prosperity . |