Example sentences of "this [was/were] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think some of this was lost on the non-Aryan members of our section , such as the Polynesians who could in no way pretend that their ancestry stretched back to the Vikings . |
| 2 | There was always trenchant opposition to Japanese annexation of Korea and this was revealed on the left and the right of the political spectrum . |
| 3 | Compensation of £250,000 was involved , and this was met on a fifty-fifty basis between the local authorities concerned and the Gas Board . |
| 4 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 5 | This was based on a deepseated disapproval of flaunting one 's body , inherited from her childhood in the Welsh valleys . |
| 6 | To a large extent this was based on an assumed chronology of place-name development with the earliest names generally ending in -ton . |
| 7 | This was based on an explicit philosophy of preserving the dignity and independence of patients . |
| 8 | Unionists had a slight majority of the English borough seats , but this was based on the small towns of the West and South rather than the heavy industrial centres of the North . |
| 9 | At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people . |
| 10 | This was based on the 1975 white paper which proposed a significant increase in home food production to reduce dependence on imports which had risen sharply in cost . |
| 11 | Déjà vu was one thing , she thought irritably , but this was bordering on the ridiculous ! |
| 12 | This was done on a haphazard basis , so that a Peruvian Indian from the Andes could be issued with papers proving beyond legal doubt that he had in fact spent all his life in Godalming . |
| 13 | Under its extant rules , support from 55 per cent of those voting was required for a strike to be called , and this was achieved on the first two occasions only : in December 1971 , 59 per cent voted in favour , whereas in February 1974 support was an overwhelming 81 per cent . |
| 14 | At first this was arranged on a private basis . |
| 15 | The club managed to recoup £304 , and this was spent on a single floodlight . |
| 16 | This was protected on the landward side by the Portsea Lines but the garrison would be harassed by small boats taking them in the rear via the channel between Portsea and Hayling Island . |
| 17 | This was performed on the 10 patients with pain after gastric surgery who also carried out the sodium probe study . |