Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining schemes were developed either on an LEA-wide basis or by schools working individually or in groups of six to eight . |
| 2 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 3 | Somehow , he had moved closer , and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat . |
| 4 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 5 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 6 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 7 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 8 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 9 | Letters were written either on a one-to-one basis , or , by circulating copies to network members , as one-to-many communications . |
| 10 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 11 | They left things to us and we were rushing along on a supercharged train with no brakes . ’ |
| 12 | The political parties of the narrow and fragmented centre of the political spectrum , from which all governments had to be drawn , were agreed only on the fundamental issue of preserving the Fourth Republic : they had , as it were , reserved their right to disagree on everything else . |
| 13 | Transit times were measured once on the basal diet and once during sulphate feeding . |
| 14 | His proposals for the composition of his government were approved overwhelmingly on the following day . |
| 15 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 16 | These were contacted regularly on an informal basis for several months between their initial interview as part of the known sector sample and the start of the snowballing phase . |
| 17 | Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan . |
| 18 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 19 | The issues in Samson were focused commonly on the internal struggles of the individual confronted with temptation , and whether the poem achieved a tragic dimension or not . |
| 20 | We were consulting widely on the possible change to a single-tier all-purpose authority structure in Scotland . |
| 21 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 22 | The Leader and the thin man were advancing cautiously on the remaining horses which were standing restless , uncertain and in need of quieting . |
| 23 | The government was lavishing money on roads instead of railways and the developers were cashing in on a projected ‘ up-grading ’ of the existing A road to a motorway , thus bringing Suffolk into the commuter zone . |
| 24 | Three years ago , when Dixons was the bidder , the position was exactly the reverse : electrical retailers were cashing in on an unprecedented boom . |
| 25 | WHEN Germany 's politicians agreed in March on a ‘ solidarity pact ’ to help pay the cost of unification , their eyes were fixed dreamily on a distant future . |
| 26 | There were puffins everywhere : the sky was full of whirring wings , and hundreds of birds were standing around on the grassy slope which was honeycombed with puffin burrows . |
| 27 | Across the bridge in Aberfeldy more people than usual were standing about on the dried mud of the half-built streets . |
| 28 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 29 | The Parliamentary elections of the spring proved to be bitterly contentious , and were fought largely on the old party lines , centring around the issues of Dissent and/or loyalty to the new regime . |
| 30 | A study of electoral propaganda conveys the impression that many of the General Elections were fought out on the great party issues of the day : religion , the war , and the security of the protestant succession . |