Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under their Chairman , Arthur Allen , the District 's committee raised a series of questions about the negotiated settlement and were unbending on the issue of retention of the District 's autonomy in all its affairs and highly critical of the failure to secure the appointment of Jacques as a joint |
| 2 | The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore . |
| 3 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 4 | This was long before all things that girls wear could be studied and were exhibited on the way up the escalator at Piccadilly Underground . |
| 5 | When we got to the end we had a barbecue and were tested on the Country Code . |
| 6 | Sarajevo radio reported Serb forces had breached Gorazde 's defence lines in hand-to-hand fighting at the villages of Borovac and Gornja Glavica and were advancing on the town 's outskirts . |
| 7 | Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way . |
| 8 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 9 | In the seventeenth century a weaver called Buffarot led a local revolt , and was broken on the wheel only a few metres from where we 're sitting . ’ |
| 10 | Oliver finished his speech and sat down and was slapped on the back . |
| 11 | The Blackpool Civic Trust made the restoration of the car their special project for the Borough Centenary in 1976 , and accordingly the car returned in 1975 and was displayed on the Promenade opposite the Foxhall . |
| 12 | WAITRESS Vera Nicholls served up teas on a charity stall — and was sacked on the spot by her boss , who ran a cafe opposite . |
| 13 | Instead he became a pupil of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] and was engaged on the construction of railway lines in central Scotland and elsewhere . |
| 14 | Court testimony was seen as a formula to manipulate power and was evaluated on the strength of its effectiveness . |
| 15 | In fact it was the earliest in Bohemia and was based on the column erected in Munich by Elector Maximilian I to commemorate the victory of the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 16 | The FSU was founded in 1947 , and was based on the experience of the Pacifist Service Units , which had helped families who were overwhelmed by the destruction , separation , chaos and strain of the war years to cope and re-establish themselves . |
| 17 | The Roman system of dating ab urbe condita ( i.e. from the foundation of Rome ) was introduced by Varro in the first century BC and was based on the date assigned to the fabled founding of the city . |
| 18 | Each ability grouping consisted of a girl and a boy and was based on the results from a weekly arithmetic exercise in the 6 weeks prior to the study . |
| 19 | One legend , often called " The Deliverance of Mankind " or " The Destruction of Mankind " , was inscribed on the largest gilded wooden shrine surrounding the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun and was written on the walls of later New Kingdom royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings , those of Seti I and Ramesses II possessing the most complete texts . |
| 20 | Helen Zeitlin , who worked in the haematology unit at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for five years , and was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy , has won her appeal against the decision . |
| 21 | Horus , the falcon or hawk sky god , was thenceforth intimately linked with the kingship and was followed on the throne by a line of demigods called " Followers of Horus " in Upper and Lower Egypt . |
| 22 | It 's still a great game though , and was included on the cartridge bundled with the ill-fated GS console ( Ha ! |
| 23 | As the news of Monkey Mia spread , it became one of Australia 's leading tourist attractions and was included on the itinerary of tour buses . |
| 24 | As for the Tories , Heath had replaced Douglas-Home as leader in the party 's first leadership election in ‘ 65 , and was campaigning on the basis of EEC entry , Trade Union reform and reduction in direct taxation . |
| 25 | She was dead frightened and was pressing on the bell and everything , but nobody came that night . |
| 26 | News of the Dresden talks was announced to some 20,000 people packing churches there , and was broadcast on the city tannoy system in Leipzig on Monday afternoon . |
| 27 | He himself was thin and pale from illness , and was lying on the bed , wrapped in an old coat . |
| 28 | She had been partially knocked out during the fight and was lying on the ground . |
| 29 | We were both shocked to discover that he could neither ride nor walk , and was lying on the grass , waiting for us . |
| 30 | Balor had fallen headlong and was lying on the forest floor , one foot caught and held by the root of a huge old ash Tree that protruded from the ground . |