Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] on [art] [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 | Hydrogen concentrations were measured on a GMI Exhaled Hydrogen Monitor ( FMI Medical Ltd , Renfrew , Scotland ) , and methane by gaschromatography ( PYE 104 , PYE-Unicam , Cambridge , England ) using flame ionisation and a 2 m× 4 mm glass column packed with Poropak Q. Oven temperature was 50°C and the detector 100°C , with nitrogen as carrier gas . |
| 6 | His decisive opinions about the correct attributions of authorship in pictures were founded on a personal method , partly inspired by his medical training . |
| 7 | We need to consider , however , whether the different approaches of the two parties were based on a rational assessment of party advantage . |
| 8 | Makarenko revived the military model in microcosm , and his strict pedagogical methods were adopted on a vast scale in the 1930s by Stalin , who reawakened many other lingering aspects of military-inspired government . |
| 9 | In addition project outcome correlations with project-independent variables were calculated on the pooled data . |
| 10 | The remaining variables were measured on a five point Likert scale . |
| 11 | He was n't looking at me as he spoke , his eyes were fixed on the tatty door of the Mimosa . |
| 12 | Eyes were focused on the new Pastoral Centre strategically placed based on Viewley Way into which an estimated 250 people were gathering . |
| 13 | Behind his Oakley sunglasses his eyes were focused on the inner drama of his own existence . |
| 14 | Thin Cambrian quartzites and limestones were deposited on the continental shelf of the North-west Foreland . |
| 15 | Indeed some of the grandest designs were based on the weakest economic need . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 18 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the 1840s , when coffee plantations were established on a large scale , it expanded into the central highlands . |
| 22 | In the Groeger and Chapman study responses were made on a seven point response keypad with the question repeated each time a rating was required . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Her feet were resting on a small , aluminium step-ladder . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Unless cash ratios were imposed on every single financial institution , the control of certain institutions ' lending would merely shift business to other uncontrolled institutions . |
| 27 | Thus in Israel associations were formed on an industry-wide basis which usually coincided with product and labour markets ( Shirom and Jacobson , 1975 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Which artistes were appearing on a certain date , that sort of thing . |