Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cylinders were left on the line betweenWroughton and Wootton Bassett , immediately opposite a council-run gypsy site . |
| 2 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 3 | These schools were chosen on the advice of the Chief Inspector to represent schools which had made use of the booklet and schools which had not . |
| 4 | The Lycée of Galata Serai had been founded by Frenchmen in Turkey and English public schools were imitated on the Gold Coast . |
| 5 | The views of the Foreign , Commonwealth Relations , and Colonial Offices were sought on the security of tenure that British forces were likely to enjoy in territories East of Suez ; but in the late 1950s there was no consensus on the probable speed with which Britain 's dependent territories would advance to independence . |
| 6 | Who knows , if the Gauguins were left on the island one day they might be worth — ’ I drew a breath — ‘ twenty or even thirty thousand each ? ’ |
| 7 | Drugs and solutions were prepared on the day of use . |
| 8 | This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force . |
| 9 | Chemical pesticides were sprayed on the tomato plants to kill the whitefly . |
| 10 | DNA concentrations were determined on the basis of ε 260 = 13200 litre.mol -1 . |
| 11 | Her red high heels were clicking on the pavement . |
| 12 | Twelve of their heads were impaled on the Charles Bridge pour encourager les autres and remained there for more than a decade . |
| 13 | These probes were chosen on the basis of conserved sequences within the POU domain of octamer DNA binding proteins [ 8 ] . |
| 14 | The Sabbath laws of the Jews were based on the story of creation in Genesis . |
| 15 | Both Greeks and Jews were living on the borders of the Persian Empire . |
| 16 | Marked on the back ‘ Bristol Views ’ , these delightful transfer printed pictures were based on the work of late 18th- and early 19th-century painters such as F. Nicholson . |
| 17 | Pictures were pinned on the walls , copies of pictures she admired , notably Millais and Holman Hunt . |
| 18 | The operation of the twenty-two disciplinary offences was suspended and concessions were made on the fees for signing on and off . |
| 19 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 20 | Teenagers were gathered on the steps of the one-roomed town hall — big-boned , inactive boys and blonde girls in a twilight between ethereal beauty and over-heavy womanhood . |
| 21 | Beyond the windows , tropical trees and shrubs that bore guava , papaw , mangosteen and pomegranate sprouted in profusion from the moist earth of a walled garden , and heaped bowls of fruits picked from their branches were clustered on the altar , along with tiny dishes of spiced meats , fish , lotus seeds , vegetables and porcelain beakers of tea and rice alcohol . |
| 22 | Other cars were parked on the lines — it was difficult to find a space ! — but I was the driver he chose . |
| 23 | No cars were allowed on the road beyond it today and volunteers were patrolling it to keep out gate-crashers . |
| 24 | Two Frenchmen were standing on the sand beside their little van . |
| 25 | In this study , all subjects were selected on the basis of standard criteria of normality . |
| 26 | The cakes and the presents were put on the table , then the children hid in the other room when they heard Perks coming home from work . |
| 27 | The children 's eyes were riveted on the Headmistress . |
| 28 | He stood erect with his head thrown back , his chin jutting upwards , his mouth twitching slightly in fear , but his jaw set in defiance and bravado , as John had seen men look when clumsy hands , working without anaesthetics , had probed to extract shell-splinters from their limbs , The boy 's eyes were fixed on the master . |
| 29 | All through the night her eyes were fixed on the lights of Casterbridge , the end of her journey . |
| 30 | At the final curtain , Asshe took his daughter s hand and led her forward ; the hazel eyes were fixed on the gallery , and did not perceive Paul . |