Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year on Trinity Sunday , a candle-lighting ceremony with music , poetry , banners and balloons was held on the steps of St Martin's-in-the-fields church to mark AI 's anniversary . |
| 2 | Although the sciences had begun to develop in English universities in the nineteenth century ( following Scottish innovations ) , it is probably fair to say that the dominant culture of the universities was founded on the humanities up to and even a little beyond the Second World War . |
| 3 | Her original wish to run two candidates in at least one-third of the country 's 130 multi-member constituencies was abandoned on the grounds that it would have split the socialist vote in many areas . |
| 4 | A request by opposition parties to allow a transitional period during which the newly formed parties could prepare for elections was refused on the grounds that the election dates were specified in the Constitution . |
| 5 | On 6 November 1905 , 3,000 working women marched silently from Walworth and Poplar to Westminster , after Lansbury 's request that the Queen should receive a delegation of unemployed women was refused on the grounds that it was ‘ contrary to all custom and quite impossible ’ . |
| 6 | The building of any further houses was resisted on the grounds that the additional families which they would attract might eventually become a charge on the poor rates during periods of economic depression . |
| 7 | In every instance one of the birds was sitting on the eggs and the other perched on a neighbouring bough , both invariably asleep . |