Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The depths they had dived to , that were recorded on the sheets before her , were exceptional .
2 These control subjects did not all undergo all the tests that were performed on the patients with idiopathic DU and , therefore , the number of control subjects for the different tests varies .
3 somewhere it says about the am amounts that was spent on the costumes .
4 Each ability grouping consisted of a girl and a boy and was based on the results from a weekly arithmetic exercise in the 6 weeks prior to the study .
5 One legend , often called " The Deliverance of Mankind " or " The Destruction of Mankind " , was inscribed on the largest gilded wooden shrine surrounding the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun and was written on the walls of later New Kingdom royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings , those of Seti I and Ramesses II possessing the most complete texts .
6 Helen Zeitlin , who worked in the haematology unit at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for five years , and was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy , has won her appeal against the decision .
7 He began work as a mining engineer in Lanarkshire and applied to Alexander Hamilton Douglas , tenth Duke of Hamilton [ q.v. ] , for permission to open a new mine on his land , but was refused on the grounds that he was too young for such responsibility .
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