Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong . |
| 10 | Clods of earth were thrown on to the stout elm coffin , and the mourners began to leave . |
| 11 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 12 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 13 | Tools , especially bellows , were passed on to the eldest boy , younger sons had the opportunity to rent workshops of their own . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 17 | For the user it is as if everyone were signed on to the same LAN . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation . |
| 20 | All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty . |
| 21 | After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) . |
| 22 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 23 | James began construction of the large residential gatehouse or forework , called le dungeon , that was added on to the earlier gatehouse to provide a more fitting apartment for the Keeper — and also for the King , whenever he should visit . |
| 24 | In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
| 25 | The label was sewn on to the crinkled , elasticated hem of the pants , which were boxer shorts , blue-and-white-striped like mattress ticking . |
| 26 | Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day . |
| 27 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 29 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 30 | The devotion of the people of Dijon to an obscure tomb in one of the cemetries outside the town was frowned on by the local bishop , Gregory of Langres , who regarded it as an act of pagan superstition . |