Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus waved in the direction of one of the stalls where fish were arranged on beds of ice . |
| 2 | We often simply do not know in what ways people in the past were drawing on ideas about obligations , rights or duties when they provided assistance for their kin ( Medick and Sabean , 1984 , pp. 20–1 ) . |
| 3 | In 1959–60 intermediate range ballistic missiles were located on sites in Turkey pending the development of reliable American ICBMs . |
| 4 | Data were collected on crystals of selenomethionyl GH5 by rotations about the a and b axes , using an Enraf-Nonius FAST area detector and the computer program MADNES on beam-line X12C at the NSLS at Brookhaven National Laboratory . |
| 5 | Cause of the last-minute rush was a ruling by KEMI , the Swedish chemical inspectorate , that special safety warnings were needed on cans of antifoulings . |
| 6 | Straight lines were drawn on maps by Whitehall bureaucrats to represent the borders of countries , and concerns for the disappearing wildlife were manifest in the establishment of National Parks and reserves to protect wildlife and in the expulsion of the villagers from their traditional homes to be re-settled outside the borders of a park . |
| 7 | To give one obvious example ; for decades earlier in this century the major differences in economic activity between regions in this country were based on sectors of production . |
| 8 | On one day in March 1969 , four and a half hours were spent on points of order and discussing the confidentiality of attendance records . |
| 9 | In 1854 , appeals were introduced on matters of law and lawyers were allowed to practise in these courts . |
| 10 | Presumably I did hear him right saying that Labour 's spending plans were predicated on assumptions about Labour 's ability to produce economic growth . |
| 11 | On May 20 the former Chairman of the East German Council of Ministers , Willi Stoph , 76 , the Minister of National Defence in 1985-89 , Heinz Kessler , 71 , and two members of the former East German National Defence Council , Fritz Streletz , 71 , and Hans Albrecht , 81 , were arrested on charges of incitement to manslaughter in connection with the East German government 's " shoot-to-kill " policy towards those trying to escape to the West . |
| 12 | Ershad and a number of former ministers were arrested on charges of corruption and abuse of power , and the transitional government on Dec. 14 announced that parliamentary elections would be held on March 2 , 1991 ( subsequently brought forward to Feb. 27 ) . |
| 13 | The empirical investigations of Modigliani and Miller 2 were conducted on examples of oil and electric utility companies . |
| 14 | Some were sent on courses of instruction . |
| 15 | Convictions were obtained on charges of money laundering , cocaine manufacturing and distribution , racketeering and the building in Panama of a state-of-the-art drug laboratory . |
| 16 | Convictions were obtained on charges of money laundering , cocaine manufacturing and distribution , racketeering and the building in Panama of a state-of-the-art drug laboratory . |
| 17 | Workers with less than two years service CAN have their case heard if they were fired on grounds of sex or race . |
| 18 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 19 | Clad in a coat which was so stiff with gold wire and seed pearls that he could scarcely bend his arms he rode with his escort beneath a line of arches which were suspended on ropes between houses on opposite sides of one of the main streets . |
| 20 | From the outset the polytechnic directors were divided on matters of strategy , on the nature of future relationships with the CNAA , on the precise nature of the aims . |
| 21 | Matthew Belsham , of Sale Harriers has been added to England 's Commonwealth Games team , in the pole vault , taking the place of Michael Edwards , who was withdrawn on grounds of misconduct . |
| 22 | Maids took trays of drinks round , and a great banquet was placed on rows of tables that covered one whole side of the lawn . |
| 23 | Former LDP Cabinet Minister Toshiyuki Inamura , who served as Director-General of the Environment Agency in 1986-87 , resigned from the party on Dec. 26 , a day before he was indicted on charges of tax evasion . |
| 24 | As the son and grandson of miners , I was reared on stories of coal and collieries . |
| 25 | When the Consultative Report was issued in November , ( reproduced in ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 147 ) a tight deadline of 31 January 1993 was imposed on members in order that the Institute would be able to respond promptly to members ' current needs . |
| 26 | In April 1991 a visa requirement was imposed on nationals of Uganda ; from January to September 1990 , some 1,960 Ugandan nationals sought asylum in the UK . |
| 27 | In 1513 there was opposition to a tax imposition in Yorkshire — indeed on this occasion a remission of assessment was granted on grounds of poverty , so the government seems to have been prepared to meet genuine grievances . |
| 28 | At Powick the strongly centrist mode of operation meant that the health authority and local authority service framework adopted was built on assumptions about needs that were established wisdom ( though whose , as was seen in Chapter 2 , was not clear ) . |
| 29 | The intention was to focus on programmes of care to meet the needs of different client groups , and to plan services jointly . |
| 30 | The hammer-beamed GREAT HALL was built by James IV in the sixteenth century and was used on occasions for meetings of the Scots parliament . |