Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ricardou was particularly guilty of attempting to establish an officially sanctioned list of approved modernist precursors : the criteria he used were based on a simplistic and over-schematic distinction between writers who accepted a mimetic function and those for whom the materiality of language could be shown to be paramount . |
| 2 | Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies . |
| 3 | The data used was based on the 1972 , 1973 and 1974 intakes of all UK Universities and was provided by The Universities Statistical Record . |
| 4 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 5 | ‘ Kitty told us you 'd been killed on the Western Front and that was why she ‘ ad to sell 112 . |
| 6 | They 'd been typed on an old portable with a faded ribbon , so badly laid out that it was obvious Diane was no typist . |
| 7 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 8 | The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 . |
| 9 | The names of those who served and of those who died are recorded on the magnificent War Memorial in the vestibule of Thomas Street Church . |
| 10 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 11 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 12 | Robert Schuman , the French foreign minister after July 1948 who had been raised on the Franco-German border , was attracted to European unity as a way to bring a rapprochement between the two countries . |
| 13 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 14 | The houses had been built on a concrete raft on an infilled site . |
| 15 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 16 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 17 | On July 16 the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the nature of a concrete platform that had been built on the disputed site , and on July 22 declared that it would refuse to adjudicate on the issue until all construction activities had ceased . |
| 18 | A low , curving wall faced with flint had been built on the seaward boundary behind whose shelter every spring a bright ribbon of daffodils strained and tossed in the March winds . |
| 19 | It had been built on the seaward side of a small cottage that had evidently existed before it . |
| 20 | The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber . |
| 21 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I made some further enquiries and it transpired that Len had been convicted on a drink-driving offence and had lost his driving licence . |
| 22 | Although trenches had been constructed on a limited scale in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 , they became a significant factor in warfare only in World War I. By the end of 1914 , the conflict had developed into what amounted to a siege and both Allied and German soldiers dug trenches to protect themselves from enemy small-arms and machine-gun fire . |
| 23 | It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation . |
| 24 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 25 | Mandy 's parents had been understandably concerned at her friendship with Mark , but their demands on her had been bordering on the unreasonable . |
| 26 | The setting for Adieu consisted of a couple of pillars and a couch that was all too obviously a crude wooden structure draped with material , giving the clear impression that the ballet had been mounted on the cheap . |
| 27 | He ascertained that it had been a normal birth , but that terrible injuries had been inflicted on the poor child soon afterwards . |
| 28 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 29 | Nothing quite like it had been seen on the Allied side hitherto . |
| 30 | The work for this group had been arranged on a large but highly specialised farm , which concentrated on growing bulbs , flowers and potatoes . |