Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were seated on the far side , some in chairs , some leaning on the desk . |
| 2 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 3 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 4 | As such , they were based on a loose holding-company structure which had not entailed thoroughgoing internal reorganisation . |
| 5 | In the provinces of the empire , however , there was no choice of magistrates : the provincial governor ( or a deputy appointed by him ) heard all cases , whether they were based on the civil law or not ; and we can hardly expect that he switched from one procedure to another according to which kind of case he was hearing . |
| 6 | They were based on the active ingredients norfloxacin ( 7 ) , enoxacin ( 8 ) or ofloxacin ( 9 ) . |
| 7 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 8 | There can be little doubt that Hitler 's conquests were ideologically bankrupt , but they were built on a profound understanding and wilful exploitation of German fears and ambitions . |
| 9 | The ideas of the phrenologists contained much sound common sense even though they were built on the false premise that bumps on the skull are a key to personality . |
| 10 | Work began on two new , larger , masonry granaries , although they were situated on the same site . |
| 11 | They were given on the express condition that they will never be played . |
| 12 | As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures . |
| 13 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 14 | Even at the height of its propagandist messages , the Staufen chancery found it difficult to counteract papal arguments , for they were conducted on a supernal plane . |
| 15 | Internal dating in Fragments B to D indicates with all but certainty that they were written on a daily progression ; B at the rate of three pairs of verses a day from 27 July to 29 October 1759 ; one verse a day from 30 October 1759 to 1 June 1760 ; and three verses a day from 2 June to 26 August 1760 ; C at the rate of two verses a day from 21 February to 12 May 1761 ; and D at the rate of one verse a day from 12 June 1762 to 30 January 1763 . |
| 16 | They had conducted the same argument , at intervals , since the days after they had realised that they were isolated on an alien world . |
| 17 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 18 | They were executed on a small island in the river . |
| 19 | They were being kept nine to a cell in the jail.At first they were sleeping on the concrete floor , now they 're on wooden slats . |
| 20 | They were put on the same strip CD had used , and second time around it helped spinners almost from the outset . |
| 21 | They were focused on a massive campaign against the double-standard and its enshrinement in law . |
| 22 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 23 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 24 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |
| 25 | They were standing on the paved area behind the house : all the windows were dark , the garden chairs and the round table abandoned and vulnerable . |
| 26 | They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room . |
| 27 | On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available . |
| 28 | The tide would carry them inland at least two miles and possibly three before they were beached on the first low ridge that had been the coastline a million years before the birth of Christ . |
| 29 | They were to stay on the alert for any soldier unlucky enough to go overboard . |
| 30 | As they were paid on a piece-work basis , this meant that there was a ceiling to the amount of output any one person would do . |