Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 2 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 3 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 4 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 5 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 6 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 7 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 8 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 9 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 10 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 11 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 12 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 13 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 14 | Moreover , the SPOs — who were intended to be the key link between ‘ bottom-up ’ development and strategic planning — had large managerial responsibilities and were grafted on to the developmental CMHT model rather than being key initiators of it . |
| 15 | They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong . |
| 16 | Clods of earth were thrown on to the stout elm coffin , and the mourners began to leave . |
| 17 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 18 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 19 | Tools , especially bellows , were passed on to the eldest boy , younger sons had the opportunity to rent workshops of their own . |
| 20 | He quoted fully from Miller 's letters on pollination of tulips by bees and on cross-fertilisation of white and red cabbage , and these observations were passed on to the Royal Society ( Phil . |
| 21 | Cuts last year in the Dutch health budget were passed on to the national applied research organization ( TNO ) , whose own grant is being halved by 1994 . |
| 22 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 23 | For the user it is as if everyone were signed on to the same LAN . |
| 24 | We wo n't know till tomorrow what sort of dog 's breakfast they 'll dish up out of it , but they were waffling on about the poor little guinea-pig baby . |
| 25 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 26 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 27 | His turnout exceedingly elegant , the father was walking on over the hard curd-white earth down the double track of the carts towards the small port on the coast ahead . |
| 28 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 29 | The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation . |
| 30 | All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty . |