Example sentences of "it was [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | and it was just a case of erm pot luck , I would sort of brought it out and looked at it and , er no it was n't cooked , it was cooked on the edges so I turned it over and turned it round and put it back in again . |
2 | It was done on the receivers orders to stop disgruntled workers taking demonstration vehicles from the site . |
3 | It was framed on the principles of modern political economy . |
4 | Groups on the left opposed it on the grounds that IMF policies had damaged developing countries , and on the right it was opposed on the grounds of cost . |
5 | The manager of the Commandery Centre , Richard Townsley says : ’ Worcester was a very important city geographically , it was situated on the roads across to Wales , down to Oxford and into London . |
6 | And of course er when an article became , when you needed an article or something broke down in the car and you needed to m=make something up on the lathe o it was made on the premises . |
7 | it was based on the figures that the West Yorkshire authorities submitted to the Secretary of State , which was on a policy as I understand it , of containing as much of their population they as as they were possible to . |
8 | The branch committee favourably entertained Miss Black 's assistance , but on it being remitted to a general meeting of the Society , it was rejected on the grounds that if the females were organised , their position would be improved as an industry for females , which would result in great accession to their numbers in the printing trade in Edinburgh . " |
9 | It was rebuilt on the foundations of an earlier Romanesque cathedral in the early thirteenth century and largely completed by 1237 . |
10 | They they very seldom bought things for themselves , it was spent on the children . |
11 | It was held on the facts that the trustees did not have the power to make such loans and that the payments were in fact outright payments so that she was properly assessed to income tax . |