Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think some of this was lost on the non-Aryan members of our section , such as the Polynesians who could in no way pretend that their ancestry stretched back to the Vikings . |
| 2 | There was always trenchant opposition to Japanese annexation of Korea and this was revealed on the left and the right of the political spectrum . |
| 3 | Unionists had a slight majority of the English borough seats , but this was based on the small towns of the West and South rather than the heavy industrial centres of the North . |
| 4 | At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people . |
| 5 | This was based on the 1975 white paper which proposed a significant increase in home food production to reduce dependence on imports which had risen sharply in cost . |
| 6 | Déjà vu was one thing , she thought irritably , but this was bordering on the ridiculous ! |
| 7 | Under its extant rules , support from 55 per cent of those voting was required for a strike to be called , and this was achieved on the first two occasions only : in December 1971 , 59 per cent voted in favour , whereas in February 1974 support was an overwhelming 81 per cent . |
| 8 | This was protected on the landward side by the Portsea Lines but the garrison would be harassed by small boats taking them in the rear via the channel between Portsea and Hayling Island . |
| 9 | This was performed on the 10 patients with pain after gastric surgery who also carried out the sodium probe study . |
| 10 | It is difficult , perhaps impossible , to establish exactly how much was spent on the two papers , Uhuru and the Nationalist , in the years between 1964 , when the Nationalist was launched , and 1972 , when it merged with the Standard to form the Daily News . |
| 11 | The large crowd bore witness to its popularity although the course record of 68 set by Des Ballintine in 1984 was broken on the tough Prehen course . |
| 12 | The decision to go chapter 11 was made on the 21st of May — the company 's 10th birthday . |
| 13 | Growth from 1851 to 1911 was concentrated on the few urban industrial regions in which an increasing proportion of the population lived ; these experienced both net immigration and natural increase . |
| 14 | A fourth was crouched on the silvery carapace of the wreck above them . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , an estimated US$4,500 million was spent on the 13th World Youth and Student Festival in July [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 16 | The other £3 million was spent on the three ferry terminals . |
| 17 | Little was said on the homeward journey . |
| 18 | The driver of the 10pm LMS passenger and mail train seemingly overran a home signal at danger and plunged into the rear of the 9.15pm Oxley sidings to Bristol GWR fitted goods before finally colliding with another freight , the 4.45 Westerleigh to Gloucester empties , that was passing on the opposite line . |
| 19 | Yeah , I was forgetting that that was that was calculated on the two . |
| 20 | And that was approved on the twenty seventh of January ninety three and nothing has happened about it since . |
| 21 | The Theft Act 1968 was based on the Eighth Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , 1966 . |