Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 2 | Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned . |
| 3 | This was constructed on the base of the last remaining toastrack 163 , which had been stored in Fleetwood Depot . |
| 4 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 5 | But this was based on the assumption that the current tax relief limit of £30,000 would be increased in line with inflation . |
| 6 | This was based on the antics of a crew chief John C Ford — Jack to his friends — who had some knuckled dentistry and lost a tooth during a bar-room brawl en route to England . |
| 7 | This was based on the research of Nesta Webster , the grand dame of British conspiracy theory , who saw Jews in alliance with other subversive forces , as being behind all the ills of the modern world , from the threats to the British Empire through to the nudity movement . |
| 8 | A 4″ 90° bend was purchased and this was placed on the outlet pipe running from the new pond to the header pools to take the water from a lower level in the pond . |
| 9 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 10 | This was operated on the ICL 1900 processor . |
| 11 | This was justified on the grounds that , since lifetime gifts were exempt from inheritance tax , there was no longer double capital taxation . |
| 12 | This was justified on the grounds that , having failed to get into grammar school , I would be educationally disadvantaged further by attending the local comprehensive . |
| 13 | The system was complicated by the introduction at a late stage of a further provision enabling federal states to designate more than one Central Authority ; this was done on the suggestion of the German Federal Republic ( which had previously resisted the British proposal as tending to multiply Central Authorities ) to enable expression to be given to the sovereignty of the German Länder in the field of justice , and does require the applicant to identify the Land in question . |
| 14 | If a text needed to be amended , or comment made on it , this was done on the file itself , either on the relevant paper within the file or on a note attached to it . |
| 15 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 16 | This was rejected on the grounds that such sinister tunnels would become lurking places for thieves . |
| 17 | At ‘ Badington ’ the Duchess of Beaufort grew Cestrum nocturnum , a native of the West Indies , and this was distributed on the continent , known there as the ‘ Badington Jasmine ’ . |
| 18 | One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups : the poor , women and ethnic minorities . |
| 19 | Some IR£150 million of this was spent on the St. James 's Gate site . |
| 20 | This was sold on the telephone to a private collector for £130,000 ( $234,000 ) against an estimate of £80–120,000 , an auction record for a Pahari miniature . |
| 21 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 22 | Perhaps too much was written on the career of Mick Mannock , whose group of medals including his VC , DSO , and two bars , MC and bar were offered for sale . |
| 23 | Dr Peter Mann , Reader in Sociology in the University of Sheffield , conducted a survey among undergraduates on the use of book lists , libraries and bookshops , and on how much was spent on the purchase of books . |
| 24 | Confidence intervals for these were calculated on the basis of the associated binomial probability . |
| 25 | The first European motorways were built in Germany and Italy in the 1920s and 1930s ; the UK had active plans to follow them , but these were shelved on the outbreak of war , and the first British motorway was not built until 1958 ( the Preston bypass ) . |
| 26 | ‘ All right , ’ said the clerk wearily and showed me where these were placed on the form . |
| 27 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 28 | These were held on the road outside the inn and the distances were : one mile , a half and a quarter of a mile . |
| 29 | These were approved on the proposal of , seconded by . |
| 30 | The first of these was shown on the opening night of the new Channel Four station on November 2nd , 1982 , and regarded as the channel 's first ‘ star ’ production . |