Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 2 | It may well have been a more sensible policy , therefore , to make the Phase 1/3 disparity less extreme , and to use the resources to ensure that all schools were staffed on the 1986 Select Committee recommended basis of n registration groups plus one , with further pro rata adjustments for school size and specific challenges like those of the inner city . |
| 3 | Before PNP , Leeds primary schools were staffed on the conventional basis of a head plus a teacher for each registration group , and in the national league table many Leeds primary classes were very large . |
| 4 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 5 | Two minutes later , on the concrete of a Royal Air Force aerodrome , the engines of the German bomber were dying on the light west wind . |
| 6 | In addition project outcome correlations with project-independent variables were calculated on the pooled data . |
| 7 | He was n't looking at me as he spoke , his eyes were fixed on the tatty door of the Mimosa . |
| 8 | Eyes were focused on the new Pastoral Centre strategically placed based on Viewley Way into which an estimated 250 people were gathering . |
| 9 | Behind his Oakley sunglasses his eyes were focused on the inner drama of his own existence . |
| 10 | A few reindeer were grazing on the sparse tundra . |
| 11 | Thin Cambrian quartzites and limestones were deposited on the continental shelf of the North-west Foreland . |
| 12 | Indeed some of the grandest designs were based on the weakest economic need . |
| 13 | Some seals are cylindrical , and in the earliest period , from 2500 BC onwards , the designs were carved on the flat end , not on the curve as in Syrian and Mesopotamian seals . |
| 14 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 15 | These data were stored on the large IBM installation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in London , and an " in house " written data base handling language , INFSYS , was used to marshall the data . |
| 16 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 17 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 18 | For the primary tumour , allele losses were found on the short arm of chromosome 17 ( probe : p144-D6 , 17p13 ) and the long arm of chromosome 5 with the probe Lambda MS8 ( 5q35-qter ) ; other probes showed either no allele loss or a non-informative pattern . |
| 19 | Dr Cunningham was fixated on the potent effect of sex and socialism on Patricia Hewitt 's homophobic pensioners , who were yet still ignorant of their imminent deliverance by Glenys Thornton 's ‘ Plan To Win ’ : Mr Roberts , though extremely mindful of Labour 's Duty To Win , had had close working experience with the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights . |
| 20 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 21 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 22 | Fortunes changed for Douglas Reyburn golf team when the inter company Buchanan Trophy was played on the 23rd June at Belleisle Golf Course , Ayr . |
| 23 | The club was situated on the top two floors of the building . |
| 24 | Signs of Constantine 's new deal for the church were that the council petitioned and obtained from the emperor a degree of tax exemption for the sake of the church 's welfare for the poor , and that exile was imposed on the two bishops who withheld their signature to the creed and canons . |
| 25 | Rosenberg was killed on the western front 1 April 1918 and buried in an unmarked grave . |
| 26 | From that day in 1862 , when Guinness adopted the traditional Irish harp as its trade mark , a symbolic seal was set on the special bond between Guinness and Ireland . |
| 27 | This march was modelled on the famous Selma-Montgomery march of the American Civil Rights campaign . |
| 28 | It was not until 1978 that a feasibility study was undertaken on the possible application of a Company Personnel System . |
| 29 | The Albert Dock was opened on the 21st August with the arrival of the S.S. Florence . |
| 30 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |