Example sentences of "[adj] were [vb pp] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 2 | Of the 51 people in the study whose voting behaviour was known , 47 were entered on the household electoral form . |
| 3 | Confidence intervals for these were calculated on the basis of the associated binomial probability . |
| 4 | The first European motorways were built in Germany and Italy in the 1920s and 1930s ; the UK had active plans to follow them , but these were shelved on the outbreak of war , and the first British motorway was not built until 1958 ( the Preston bypass ) . |
| 5 | ‘ All right , ’ said the clerk wearily and showed me where these were placed on the form . |
| 6 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 7 | These were held on the road outside the inn and the distances were : one mile , a half and a quarter of a mile . |
| 8 | These were approved on the proposal of , seconded by . |
| 9 | Three were shot on the Crumbles on 15 August 1903 ; three were seen at Warnham Mill Pond on 20 March 1908 ; one was seen on Amberley Wildbrooks on 24 March 1926 ; two , one of which was eventually shot , were present in the Rye/Midrips area from 17 November 1946 to 22 February 1947 . |
| 10 | The arbitrage arguments used in Chapter 4 were based on the idea that , by holding a portfolio of the shares in the index with the same weights as the index , the price of this portfolio must converge at delivery to that of the index future . |
| 11 | Many were built on the edge of towns or cities and have subsequently been overtaken by urban development . |
| 12 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 13 | But as he spoke , the mess created by the Downing Street duo was anything but fine , as thousands more were thrown on the scrapheap in Britain 's deepening recession . |
| 14 | A total staff of 82 were employed on the Shell Forging Plant , by far the largest proportion being men owing to the heavy work involved in handling billets . |
| 15 | About 15 of the canisters , which explode when they dry out , have been discovered on the coast at Mull of Kintyre and more than 50 were found on the Isle of Man , where five have spontaneously ignited . |
| 16 | Projects were therefore not in themselves initiated by the ERDF ; member states put forward projects to receive assistance and the limited funds available were allocated on the basis of predetermined national quotas . |
| 17 | Anyone wanting to buy a copy , only 100 were printed and of these twenty were sold on the day of publication . |
| 18 | Only a few hundred were killed on the road each year ( about 4 per cent mortality ) , which , as the Table shows , is insignificant compared with the overall annual mortality rate of 50–60 per cent . |
| 19 | Standards One and Two were taught on the ground floor — a large room divided by sliding screens . |
| 20 | The quotations which Eurofighter provided er in nineteen ninety two were based on the equipment option prices which are included in each of the equipment development contracts . |
| 21 | All twenty-six were slaughtered on the directions of an inspector from the Board of Agriculture who also said that if the Borough meat inspector passed any of them , they could be sold for food ; the others were to be buried . |
| 22 | But no treatment was forthcoming as 10 million were put on the dole , two million on food stamps and hundreds of thousands out on the streets . |
| 23 | Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor , but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health . |