Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 2 | Somehow , he had moved closer , and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat . |
| 3 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Transit times were measured once on the basal diet and once during sulphate feeding . |
| 9 | His proposals for the composition of his government were approved overwhelmingly on the following day . |
| 10 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We were consulting widely on the possible change to a single-tier all-purpose authority structure in Scotland . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Leader and the thin man were advancing cautiously on the remaining horses which were standing restless , uncertain and in need of quieting . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Across the bridge in Aberfeldy more people than usual were standing about on the dried mud of the half-built streets . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 23 | As the church owned and managed the majority of the schools its faithful attended , and had a role in the management of the bulk of the remainder , the Roman catholic laity were left mainly on the receiving end of the educational policy thus legitimated . |
| 24 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 25 | The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank . |
| 26 | At the Organising Committee , the retiring CEB chairman had confidently suggested that the old CEB organisation could continue to handle matters in this field and there would be little need for change : ‘ The CEB in conjunction with a strong committee on which the Ministry of Supply were represented were working hard on the generating plant extensions and it would not be necessary for the Organising Committee to worry over-much about the details of this programme in the meantime . ’ |
| 27 | Einstein 's solution was to fall back on the old Romantic notion of the Imagination , suspending his disbelief in order to conduct what he called a " thought experiment " . |
| 28 | Now a mile or two ahead , we could see a white line where the swell was crashing up on the fringing reef . |
| 29 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 30 | Yet anyone who read the popular literature on the subject from the 50s found a massive denunciation of the welfare state which was blamed solely on the growing decline in parental responsibility . |