Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A customer asked Sarah if her brother had been near Guernica in Spain when bombs were dropped on it from aeroplanes . |
| 2 | Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Oxford ( 1957 ) , Natal ( 1962 ) , and Edinburgh ( 1974 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ No nomes were left on it in hibernation or anything ? ’ |
| 4 | This decision was somewhat controversial and a gloss was placed on it in Boyle v Kodak [ 1969 ] 1 WLR 661 . |
| 5 | Northwich , Middlewich and Nantwich , as well as Droitwich in Hereford and Worcester , were all known to the Romans for their salt deposits , and several ancient routes across Britain are known as ‘ salt ways ’ because salt was carried on them in trains of packhorses to the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 6 | The sentence of death was imposed on him by Ayatollah Khomeini for alleged blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses . |
| 7 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 8 | Bob 's humour was based on everything from swearing to drug-taking and bodily functions . |
| 9 | That same year the rabbinical diploma was conferred on him by Rabbi Weiss , lector in Vienna . |
| 10 | Nick claimed 15 grams of cannabis was planted on him by police , in an attempt to extract a bribe . |