Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to remember , for example , that our main concepts of the functional organization of primary visual cortex were developed in studies on cats rather than monkeys . |
| 2 | Lifetime gifts such as apprentice premiums or partnership capital or lump sums on marriage were treated as advances on inheritance portions . |
| 3 | Whereas influential books like Flint 's Glacial and Pleistocene Geology adopted a structure in which landforms and landscape patterns comprised the early part of the book and then were succeeded by chapters on stratigraphy and chronology in different areas and this was echoed in the structure of research on specific areas ; by the late 1970s books by physical geographers had adopted a structure in which chronology and the classic models appeared at the beginning . |
| 4 | TEN people were injured in accidents on North-East roads over the weekend . |
| 5 | Some were imposed by monasteries on benefices of which they were the patrons , sometimes as a halfway stage to appropriation . |
| 6 | In Leipzig small groups of protesters again gathered yesterday outside the Nikolaikirche in the centre of the town , where water-cannon were used against demonstrators on Saturday night . |
| 7 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
| 8 | Later in the month objectives of the air raids were shifted to attacks on troop concentrations — particularly Iraq 's elite Republican Guard divisions being held in reserve behind the front line — and on supply lines in both Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 9 | One day , West German diplomats from Budapest , Prague or East Berlin will relate how they did business in cafes and restaurants because refugees were crammed like sardines on mattresses in their offices and the corridors . |
| 10 | Armed members of the breakaway group New Islamic Jihad seized control of the nearby town of Mansheit Al Kahk , but were overpowered by police on April 30 , when 15 of them were shot dead . |
| 11 | In other incidents in early May , mainline railway traffic from Zagreb and Belgrade to the coast was halted on May 5-6 following bomb threats , lines around Knin ( the main town in the " Autonomous Region " ) were damaged by explosions on May 5 , and explosions in Sibenik on the coast damaged houses and water mains and cut off power . |
| 12 | Final days were spent in revetments on Kalaikunda airfield , 100 miles west of Calcutta , where they were used as decoys with the propellers sawn off and the tails lifted to look like tri-gear machines . |
| 13 | The offer failed to calm the situation , however , and thousands were arrested during disturbances on Nov. 19-20 [ see p. 37848 ] . |
| 14 | Car horns were blared for minutes on end , headlights were flashed , people danced and sang and shouted , " The Shah is gone . |
| 15 | A number of military commanders from the southern , central and northern regions were appointed as ministers on Sept. 24 . |
| 16 | They were followed by reports on Feb. 11 that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had written to leaders of member states recommending " the liquidation of Warsaw Pact military structures by April 1 " . |
| 17 | Computers for business use , on the other hand , were oriented towards operations on strings of characters and would require much more extensive transput facilities ; arithmetic would normally be in decimal rather than binary , to avoid the time taken in conversion . |
| 18 | Some of them were waving to friends on shore . |
| 19 | On Nov. 27 three EGPGC members , Ramón Pineiro Beiro , Eduardo Abad Lojo and Manuel Quintáns López , were convicted of attacks on banks in La Coruña in the autumn of 1988 ; at the time these attacks had been attributed to GRAPO [ see p. 36777 ] . |
| 20 | On June 29 , 11 people described as prominent members of al-Jihad were captured in raids on Manshiet-Nasser and other villages . |
| 21 | During a provincial tour of the south-west , Koirala 's motorcade was stoned by demonstrators on April 27 and some of his staff were injured . |
| 22 | The second model ( Fig 12.4 ) illustrates a systemic view of the pre-ERA situation , assuming that , although the primary aim was to deliver education to meet statutory requirements and local needs , the provision of the necessary resources was constrained by limitations on finance , in turn influenced by the requirement to ensure parity of resources in all Colleges controlled by the LEA . |
| 23 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 24 | Cardwell was interviewed by police on February 20 and released on bail . |
| 25 | It was thought in mediaeval times to have magic associations and was hung over doors on Midsummer 's Eve to ward off evil spirits . |
| 26 | In Rutland at least demand for wage labour was curtailed by restrictions on com growing imposed by the lack of means of shipment , as in Leicestershire , where labourers seem to have been even thinner on the ground ; much effort went into stock rearing , many farmers kept above-average flocks of sheep , and there was abundant fatting pasture in the Vale of Catmose . |
| 27 | At Bad Honeff the tomb of Konrad Adenauer , West Germany 's first post-war Chancellor , was daubed with swastikas on Oct. 5 . |
| 28 | INSIDE STORY : MULES looks at women who smuggle drugs and THE PRISONER looks like was made by men on drugs . |
| 29 | It may well be the oldest crane in Britain , and it was operated by men on treadwheels . |
| 30 | The problem was minimised in measurements on cells and tissues in vitro , however , and in small animals in vivo , by the ‘ flooding dose ’ technique , in which all amino acid pools are rapidly equilibrated to similar enrichments . |