Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Dark Age Benedictine monastery and the church were sacked by the Saracens on 10 October 881 AD , as recorded in the twelfth-century Chronicon Vulturnense . |
| 2 | The notion of violence within an urban context is reinforced by some of the titles although these paintings were completed before the riots on the Meadowell estate , near Chevallier 's studio , erupted . |
| 3 | The fact that Western cultures were placed by the anthropologists on the uppermost rungs reflects their ethnocentric perspective ! |
| 4 | Pupils were assigned to the bands on the basis of their scores on the GT4 reference test . |
| 5 | The letter P was used later and these Type letters were painted on the solebars on one side of the car only . |
| 6 | Various quotations were considered by the Goldsmiths on 1st July and the contract was awarded to the Warrington company of Hinde and Haddock , at an estimated cost of £3,526 . |
| 7 | And snowflakes were huge beautiful things that were hung from the ceilings on bits of thread . |
| 8 | Three were shot on the Crumbles on 15 August 1903 ; three were seen at Warnham Mill Pond on 20 March 1908 ; one was seen on Amberley Wildbrooks on 24 March 1926 ; two , one of which was eventually shot , were present in the Rye/Midrips area from 17 November 1946 to 22 February 1947 . |
| 9 | The formal shouts of challenge and reply were made between the guards on the watchtowers and the approaching horsemen , and a moment later there were hooves clattering in the yard . |
| 10 | The ‘ third element ’ were frustrated by the restrictions on zemstvo initiative imposed by both government and by gentry deputies . |
| 11 | In the following year the public were lectured from the courts on the duties of parenthood when , expressing himself ‘ perfectly satisfied that these crimes can be traced to neglect of parents ’ , the Recorder of Bradford struck the familiar harmonies of discontent : ‘ Parents of this time , unfortunately , do not take sufficient care in bringing up their children . |
| 12 | These Accounts were approved by the Directors on 16th June 1993 . |
| 13 | Crowds of eager spectators were massed along the paths on either side from the grand cascade to the middle of the place de la Concorde . |
| 14 | Of the 127 seats at stake ( one through a by-election ) , 77 were in 47 prefectural districts , where candidates were chosen by name , while the remaining 50 were in the national constituency and were allocated between the parties on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 15 | Tablets were provided to the patients on each visit . |
| 16 | The Rouhanyoun faction protested as some 1,100 prospective candidates were eliminated by the committees on the grounds that they did not meet minimum educational and other standards . |
| 17 | A set of 255 of the logged searches — those which were almost certainly the first search in a session or which bore no apparent relationship to the Previous search — were repeated by the experimenters on EXP CTL and a third system ( OSTEM ) which did no stemming at all . |
| 18 | Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July . |
| 19 | Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July . |
| 20 | Two lower-ranking officers were convicted of the murders on Sept. 28 , 1991 , while seven were acquitted [ see p. 38414 ] . |
| 21 | The three " suspects " were released by the Israelis on Dec. 21 . |
| 22 | Third , it is possible that the volatiles were acquired through the impacts on otherwise completed planets of volatile-rich bodies , as illustrated in Figure 5.1 ( d ) . |
| 23 | The match in Ireland ended under something of a cloud when the reigning American Club Professional Champion Larry Gilbert ( right ) was withdrawn from the singles on medical grounds . |
| 24 | Similar , though slightly more muted , approval was given to the propositions on Christian education , discussed from 17 to 19 November , and on the latter date the Council turned its attention briefly to recommendations to simplify marriage legislation and end discrimination against non-Catholic partners in mixed marriages . |
| 25 | The passenger whom I picked up informed me that , throughout the journey , no information regarding delays was given to the passengers on the train . |
| 26 | That narrow smile was pressed to the scars on Justine 's throat . |
| 27 | On 6 August 1945 , the first atomic bomb was dropped by the Americans on the town of Hiroshima in Japan . |
| 28 | The great German superiority in artillery made the outcome inevitable : the Russians abandoned Warsaw and the city was occupied by the Germans on 5 August . |
| 29 | A total curfew was imposed throughout the territories on Feb. 23 after the expiry of the deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait . |
| 30 | Postal notice of confirmation was made to the owners on 1st April . |