Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 2 | Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 , Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 and Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 were founded on by the claimant and Slater v. Burnley Corporation by the respondent . |
| 3 | Demonstrations were put on by the Institute of Aquaculture and the departments of Environmental Science , Education , Psychology , Biological and Molecular Sciences , Japanese Studies , English Studies and Information Services . |
| 4 | ‘ It was voted on by the clubs but there has been no ratification of that by the management committee . |
| 5 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 6 | However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 7 | A free coach was laid on by the Sun bringing fans from London . |
| 8 | A helicopter trip , intended to demonstrate ‘ the size and diversity of the Highland area ’ was laid on by the association for Mr Lang , although bad weather forced the cancellation of one leg . |
| 9 | Such a practice was frowned on by the church , and instructions were given to the warden of the building that if any young woman allowed a man to stay overnight then she was to be reported to the Mother Superior . |
| 10 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 11 | But mother-of-two Mrs Spence said her sick leave was brought on by the stress of overwork . |
| 12 | Rob Allen , 41 , is thought to have suffered a heart attack which his wife believes was brought on by the strain of their daughter 's condition . |
| 13 | Hopeful Bid looked as if he would win easily but was taken on by the Clive Brittain-trained Braveboy inside the final furlong . |
| 14 | About a dozen mental patients going through rehabilitation in Aylesbury have been working on the boat which was taken on by the Dandelion Trust . |
| 15 | Although the wool producers seem to have borne part of the tax costs , the substantial increase in cloth production during the war is most easily explicable if a large part of the wool tax was passed on by the exporters to the foreign buyers , while the English cloth manufacturers were able to undercut their Continental rivals ( 88 , pp.39–40 ) . |