Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organizations which were represented on the Council of Representatives and which had " armies " could apply to have their armed forces officially registered . |
| 2 | The Head of Department was first asked to specify how he and his colleagues assessed their pupils ' work , illustrating the process by assessing a pencil drawing which was mounted on the wall . |
| 3 | The Duke stared at Sharpe for a few seconds , then flinched at the blood which was caked on the Rifleman 's jacket . |
| 4 | In the late nineteenth century Sinhalese élites invented a racial consciousness which was based on the assumption that all who spoke Sinhala were of Aryan origin . |
| 5 | The act of grinding , which could be continued for several hours , resulted in the insoluble starting material being reduced to very small fragments which were distributed on the surface of the lactose particles . |
| 6 | Angrily she turned to the door and yanked it open , almost colliding with David Markham who was standing on the threshold . |
| 7 | A police spokesman said : ‘ He told them he could not wake his mummy who was found on the ground floor . ’ |
| 8 | When the fear eased , she had banged on the locked wooden door , but there had been no response , apart from the laughter of the guards who were stationed on the other side . |
| 9 | A test ban would destabilise the nuclear balance because neither side could be sure what effect it was having on the other . |
| 10 | there were four people at the last meeting er and two others from the department a male and a female who looked after the bits of the department but I can not now remember what their names were let me just see if I 've got my notes which were written on the inside of a British Airways flight ticket come in , hi ya |
| 11 | Unwin 's middle class " rational cottage " had an aesthetic unity which was focused on the fireside . |
| 12 | Please identify this coin which was found on the Thames foreshore . |
| 13 | He was given a 15-day prison sentence which was suspended on the provision that he paid £2.50-a-week off his debt to the council . |
| 14 | I used to go to work fearful of the dialogue I was putting on the screen . |
| 15 | The exhibition ends with the remnants of the statue of Stalin which was destroyed on the night of October 23 , 1956 , to show the collapse of a main feature of that sad era — that of the cult of personality . ’ |
| 16 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
| 17 | By eliminating all theological and metaphysical elements from his work , he sought to challenge the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy which was founded on the natural rights of the citizen and the inalienable sovereignty of the state . |
| 18 | It was built in 1907 to serve the local soft fruit trade , and although it is an elegant bridge it is actually built of concrete blocks which were made on the site . |
| 19 | This led to the everyday use of microphones which were mounted on the end of a short boom extending from one of the ear-pieces of the pilot 's radio headset to a position in front of his mouth . |
| 20 | This was part of a wider strategy throughout the public sector which was based on the simple ideological premise that the private sector had everything to teach the public sector and nothing to learn . |
| 21 | the authority was not liable for the sexual abuse which was committed on the boys . |
| 22 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 23 | He trained on until dark , when it was just he , Isay and the three Myrcan instructors who were left on the practice field . |
| 24 | ‘ Hello , ’ I said to the Puerto Rican child who was sitting on the lap of the woman beside me . |
| 25 | ‘ I saw a young girl who was lying on the side of the road . |
| 26 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 27 | It were a month after they first started playing with the machine that someone hears one of the tunes they were singing on the wireless set . ’ |
| 28 | When Richard was a young man there was reckoned to be a tournament about once a fortnight on the Continent ; in England they were prohibited on the orders of Henry II . |
| 29 | The truth is that while batting in the indoor nets he was struck on the toe by a ball from paceman Chris Lewis and an X-ray over the weekend revealed he had indeed suffered a cracked bone . |
| 30 | ‘ Mike 's changed , ’ Laidlaw answered , staring at the beer can he was turning on the table . |