Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were loosely based on aspects of service management and |
| 2 | court of appeal decision : unfavourable medical reports obtained confidentially by a plaintiff for the purposes of personal injury litigation which were inadvertently disclosed on discovery to the defendant could be used by them at the trial . |
| 3 | In September 1295 custody of alien priories had been seized by the king and they were only restored on payment of fines . |
| 4 | At the first village , Amsiwi , we were soon sprawled on cushions under the carved guest-room ceiling in the chief 's house , drinking tea and eating hot , wholemeal pancakes and butter . |
| 5 | These were always printed on paper of a lurid colour — a different colour for each song — and illustrated with crude drawings of the events described . |
| 6 | Robert Maxwell 's sons , Kevin and Ian , were yesterday remanded on bail until April 1 by City of London magistrates . |
| 7 | Managers were yesterday working on plans for a buyout to save up to 1,400 jobs at the Birmingham factory and a management team at the Washwood Heath van plant confirmed it was developing a take-over plan . |
| 8 | Managers were yesterday working on plans for a buyout to save up to 1,400 jobs at the Birmingham factory and a management team at the Washwood Heath van plant confirmed it was developing a take-over plan . |
| 9 | Thus although the rating tasks performed in this study are not uncorrelated with the risk and accident estimates previously obtained for the stimuli from Study 2 there is no reason to assume that subjects were unnaturally concentrating on risks in the way they may have been for Studies 1 and 2 . |
| 10 | The duchy resources were still used on behalf of the royal retinue and it is striking that most of the best offices and farms went to the king 's household . |
| 11 | The duchy resources were still used on behalf of the royal retinue and it is striking that most of the best offices and farms went to the king 's household . |
| 12 | Dolly and Carrie were still working on Anna in the bedroom when Seb heard Boz at the door of the cottage . |
| 13 | Winnie Mandela and Xoliswa Falati , who was also imprisoned for six years , were both released on bail pending an application for leave to appeal . |
| 14 | There is a possibility that dun Galloways , which were traditionally fattened on turnips in East Anglia in large numbers in the nineteenth century , contributed to the now extinct Suffolk Dun which was part-originator of the Red Poll . |
| 15 | Although acquitted of attempted murder and sodomy , Raymond Santana , 15 , Yusef Salaam , 16 , and Antron McCray , 16 , were also convicted on charges of riot , robbery and assault arising from attacks upon other people in the park on the same night . |
| 16 | And copies of it were also served on Winchester by fax on 31 October 1990 . |
| 17 | Experiments were also performed on animals on days 11–14 after infection when the nematodes had been expelled from the animal . |
| 18 | Talks were also held on co-operation over judicial disputes and verification of documents . |
| 19 | These were often built on top of a hill like an acropolis in Ancient Greece . |
| 20 | Interesting , though scarcely decorative , was an early custom of writing the author 's name and title in ink on the fore-edge — a reminder of times when spines carried no information and books were often put on shelves in a way we would consider back-to-front , with the fore-edge outwards . |
| 21 | By contrast , wind-dispersed species in a Mexican study normally fruited during the dry season , producing a large amount of seeds , which were simultaneously dispersed on days with low relative humidities . |
| 22 | For extraction of platelet activating factor and platelet activating factor precursors , gastric juice samples were immediately mixed on ice with 100% ethanol ( 1 vol:4 vol ) and kept at -20°C until platelet activating factor assay . |
| 23 | According to the Professor , people were virtually living on mountains of asbestos and despite this ‘ gross exposure ’ there was no evidence of people who had contracted mesothelioma , a form of cancer related to asbestos ’ , the Cork Examiner reported . |
| 24 | The ground was largely excavated by hand , and shovelled into small tipping trucks , which were then hauled on rails by horses.4 ; Excavated material from the lower level was raised to form the top of the planes and a stretch of embanked canal to connect them with the summit pound . |
| 25 | The solutions were then put on ice for 10 min and the RNA was precipitated by the addition of 4 µl of 3 M potassium acetate and 3 volumes of ethanol . |
| 26 | Now I have to tell you that last year we raised a hundred and thirteen million pounds and of that over ninety per cent , that 's a hundred and four million pounds were actually spent on projects for children and I 'm very proud of that ratio indeed and I think it ought to give you , the raisers of money , a great deal of comfort because for a fund with two headquarters buildings which operates all over the world this is a distribution of funds of which to be proud . |
| 27 | Following the death , on 29 June 1523 , of Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ‘ the rich clothier ’ , his commercial empire had been dismantled , and his immense fortune , £3,200 net , dispersed among his heirs , most of it to his widow and daughter ; his son had already chosen to live as a gentleman and was duly taxed on £20 from lands in 1524 , and the firm ceased trading . |
| 28 | When pressure was eventually put on L.E.A.s in the 1950s to take over employment of the various county organisers whose salaries hitherto had been paid from Carnegie Trust funds , most authorities did so on condition that the organisers ' work should be extended to schools . |
| 29 | A deal with EMI beckoned , and 15-year-old singer Stinky Turner was soon going on stage in his pyjamas and bawling , ‘ You insult my intelligence but I a not a fool ! ’ to the band 's legion of admirers ( affectionately known as ‘ The Rubber Glove Firm ’ ) . |
| 30 | A deal with EMI beckoned , and 15-year-old singer Stinky Turner was soon going on stage in his pyjamas and bawling , ‘ You insult my intelligence but I a not a fool ! ’ to the band 's legion of admirers ( affectionately known as ‘ The Rubber Glove Firm ’ ) . |