Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition project outcome correlations with project-independent variables were calculated on the pooled data . |
| 2 | The days of the week were listed on the left side and a space of perhaps one inch by five was allowed for brief jottings . |
| 3 | Last year 17 schemes were completed on the local network with a further 5 on trunk roads ( Table 27 ) . |
| 4 | Hollander and possibly Reichmann were placed on the British consulate blacklist . |
| 5 | The Cathedral arms were placed on the largest candles — not the tapers which the pious burnt in the side chapels but the candles which were placed on the high altar . |
| 6 | Few additional loads were placed on the original structure . |
| 7 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 8 | They were given on the express condition that they will never be played . |
| 9 | Vitrinite reflectance measurements were undertaken on the Carboniferous section in 68 onshore and offshore wells ( Fig . |
| 10 | An independent hint that it was being used even earlier than the Shang dynasty is the appearance of turquoise , the nearest sources of which were situated on the Iranian plateau , during the initial Erh-li-t'ou stage of the Bronze Age . ’ |
| 11 | Over the years many sailing ships were wrecked on the rocky shores of Madeira , driven there by foul weather . |
| 12 | They were probably not much changed since long before Vincent Van Gogh : the Phoenician auspicious eyes , white circled dot , were painted on the high prow then as in 1888 . |
| 13 | A look of determination spread over several faces as they hurtled from side to side , and several comical scenes were witnessed as spinnakers were flown on the downwind run . |
| 14 | Newfoundlanders were mortified on the very day of their 40th anniversary to learn that Ottawa had agreed that France could fish an extra 11000 tonnes of cod from these east coast waters . |
| 15 | ‘ We were driving on the main road out of Fernley , I think … ’ |
| 16 | Over the weekend of May 11-12 , power lines from South Africa supplying Maputo 's electricity were sabotaged , while vehicles were attacked on the main road north ; the main rail link with South Africa was also cut . |
| 17 | Composed in Holland , where Lambert and the Sadlers Wells Ballet Company were trapped on the German invasion in 1940 , it is a lovely and peaceful work , its unease subtle communicated : a fitting birthday-gift to Vaughan Williams , then in the years between his Fourth Symphony and his Fifth . |
| 18 | There were reports that 1,000 people a day were dying on the Iranian border alone . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 21 | They had fulfilled various ecological niches which were occupied on the American continents by other birds . |
| 22 | As all the carcinomas were located on the right side of the colon , except the rectal carcinoma , which was found by rigid sigmoidoscopy , barium enema would seem to be an appropriate initial method of investigation . |
| 23 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 24 | The survivors , three ungainly figures in robes whipped by the wind , were grouped on the remaining hover-speeder . |
| 25 | The enemy horsemen were silhouetted on the southern skyline and Sharpe suspected they must have been trailing him ever since he had emerged from the trees . |
| 26 | For Pindar , Cyrene was the place of many sheep ( Pyth. ix.6 ) , and the equestrian successes of Arkesilas and Timokrates were won on the famous bay horses of Cyrene . |
| 27 | Perhaps this flock were nesting on the grassy top of Hoo Stack , who knows ? |
| 28 | A month later my parents were met on the open plain outside Addis Ababa by Lord Herbert Hervey and a deputation of Abyssinian notables who escorted them to the Legation , at some distance to the east of the town , in an extensive compound at the foot of the Entoto hills . |
| 29 | There , writers were evaluated on the comprehensive personality questionnaire , the Minnesota Multiphasic personality Inventory ( MMPI ) : the test provides scores on a number of scales , each of which has as its reference point a particular clinical syndrome ( depression , psychopathy , schizophrenia and so on ) and is labelled accordingly . |
| 30 | Puddles were forming on the parched earth . |