Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 2 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 3 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 4 | Each of the items , specially written for the project or adapted from APU practical tasks were written on to separate sheets and put in position along with pupil answer sheets and the apparatus for the task . |
| 5 | For the last six hours , the girls were operated on in separate theatres . |
| 6 | These elements were acted on by two forces : gravity , the tendency for earth and water to sink , and levity , the tendency for air and fire to rise . |
| 7 | By hook or by crook crews , competent or not , were got on to striking ships , by force if by no other method ; and the union men retorted in kind . |
| 8 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 9 | It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods . |
| 10 | The floods were brought on by three days of continuous torrential rains in the north which had begun on Sept. 8 , and spread quickly through parts of the Punjab and Sind , threatening sites of historic interest , engulfing thousands of villages and inundating vast acres of cropland . |
| 11 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 12 | We were spurred on by great support |
| 13 | Any crumbs which fell off the table were pounced on by big bronze lizards — skinks . |
| 14 | The range and richness of sport as a component of popular culture has been overlooked by those who take a ‘ diffusionist ’ view , concentrating on how middle-class games and values were passed on to industrial workers via muscular Christians and social reformers . |
| 15 | It seems certain that hidden teachings on sacred geometry — form , shape , proportion , number , measure and materials — were passed on into Christian times and were incorporated into much church architecture , including the great cathedrals . |
| 16 | Different lessons were passed on by other grandparents . |
| 17 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 18 | ‘ When the group of witnesses rushed to pull those injured from under the wheels of the armoured personnel carrier , they were fired on by automatic weapons . ’ |
| 19 | But the Hercules was locked-on to again and , as it was manoeuvring , the crew believe they were fired on by anti-aircraft shells . |
| 20 | French warships approached Haiphong on 6 March , and despite the agreement were fired on by Chinese batteries . |
| 21 | They were loaded on to two trucks at the airport , and were being moved across the tarmac when one of the bodies exploded . |
| 22 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 23 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 24 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 25 | There was a storm as we passed the southern tip of Cuba , and the ship I was on was smashed on to offshore rocks by the weather . |
| 26 | Meanwhile my cotton body was wound on to great bolts , each one five metres long . |
| 27 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 28 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 29 | London 's later partner in the Brompton Park nursery , Henry Wise [ q.v. ] , was another of Rose 's apprentices , whose influence on the design of formal gardens was handed on in this way to the next generation . |
| 30 | The business of importing dramatic madness to Broadmoor was embarked on with enormous misgivings . |