Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 2 | It may well have been a more sensible policy , therefore , to make the Phase 1/3 disparity less extreme , and to use the resources to ensure that all schools were staffed on the 1986 Select Committee recommended basis of n registration groups plus one , with further pro rata adjustments for school size and specific challenges like those of the inner city . |
| 3 | Before PNP , Leeds primary schools were staffed on the conventional basis of a head plus a teacher for each registration group , and in the national league table many Leeds primary classes were very large . |
| 4 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 5 | In addition project outcome correlations with project-independent variables were calculated on the pooled data . |
| 6 | He was n't looking at me as he spoke , his eyes were fixed on the tatty door of the Mimosa . |
| 7 | Eyes were focused on the new Pastoral Centre strategically placed based on Viewley Way into which an estimated 250 people were gathering . |
| 8 | Behind his Oakley sunglasses his eyes were focused on the inner drama of his own existence . |
| 9 | Thin Cambrian quartzites and limestones were deposited on the continental shelf of the North-west Foreland . |
| 10 | Indeed some of the grandest designs were based on the weakest economic need . |
| 11 | Some seals are cylindrical , and in the earliest period , from 2500 BC onwards , the designs were carved on the flat end , not on the curve as in Syrian and Mesopotamian seals . |
| 12 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 13 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 14 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 15 | For the primary tumour , allele losses were found on the short arm of chromosome 17 ( probe : p144-D6 , 17p13 ) and the long arm of chromosome 5 with the probe Lambda MS8 ( 5q35-qter ) ; other probes showed either no allele loss or a non-informative pattern . |
| 16 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 17 | As all the carcinomas were located on the right side of the colon , except the rectal carcinoma , which was found by rigid sigmoidoscopy , barium enema would seem to be an appropriate initial method of investigation . |
| 18 | A month later my parents were met on the open plain outside Addis Ababa by Lord Herbert Hervey and a deputation of Abyssinian notables who escorted them to the Legation , at some distance to the east of the town , in an extensive compound at the foot of the Entoto hills . |
| 19 | When Carl Mathers 's car pulled up in view of the rose garden , just a few golden trails were left on the hard blue , a threadbare tapestry . |
| 20 | Despite the impact of the discount rate rise , which caused the dollar to fall in value , concerns were expressed on the international markets that a weak yen and high rates of domestic investment would mean an increase in Japan 's export capacity which would detrimentally affect global trade balances . |
| 21 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 22 | Yesterday a Birmingham small claims court ordered Warwickshire , the ground authority , to repay the full admission price to five England supporters who felt cheated after only two balls were bowled on the second day of the first Test . |
| 23 | Expectations were examined on the first day of the course and reviewed at the end . |
| 24 | Though stations were built on the main line west of Paddington after its opening in 1838 the initial suburban service was poor and the passenger receipts small . |
| 25 | All these elaborations were built on the basic Hippocratic theory of the Four Humours . |
| 26 | Hartlepool then comprised 6,000 people , no longer a simple fishing village since dock facilities had recently brought it into the coal-export and timber-import trades ; but Jackson 's sights were set on the adjacent hamlet of Stranton , with a population of 350 . |
| 27 | Ten days were needed on the first few clauses alone . |
| 28 | Six left handers were operated on the right hemisphere of whom one was affected by stimulation and also showed aphasia post-operatively . |
| 29 | Every working moment of those two uncomfortable , exhausting , memorable weeks were lived on the extreme edge . |
| 30 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |