Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 2 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 3 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 4 | Therefore , in order to minimise the risk of falsely rejecting an existing difference , p values less than 0.05 were considered as significant although multiple tests were carried out on the same data . |
| 5 | Age is unlikely to have influenced the findings or the conclusions of our study , because all the tests and comparisons were carried out on the same group of patients . |
| 6 | Two further operations to her left wrist were carried out on the twenty seventh of January nineteen eighty nine and the twenty sixth of April nineteen eighty nine . |
| 7 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 8 | They left things to us and we were rushing along on a supercharged train with no brakes . ’ |
| 9 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 10 | Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan . |
| 11 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 12 | The government was lavishing money on roads instead of railways and the developers were cashing in on a projected ‘ up-grading ’ of the existing A road to a motorway , thus bringing Suffolk into the commuter zone . |
| 13 | Three years ago , when Dixons was the bidder , the position was exactly the reverse : electrical retailers were cashing in on an unprecedented boom . |
| 14 | There were puffins everywhere : the sky was full of whirring wings , and hundreds of birds were standing around on the grassy slope which was honeycombed with puffin burrows . |
| 15 | Across the bridge in Aberfeldy more people than usual were standing about on the dried mud of the half-built streets . |
| 16 | A study of electoral propaganda conveys the impression that many of the General Elections were fought out on the great party issues of the day : religion , the war , and the security of the protestant succession . |
| 17 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 18 | The patients , still dead , were delivered out on a stretcher-like apparatus . |
| 19 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 20 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 21 | We were kept in on a strict curfew and given meagre amounts of pocket money each week , which was just enough to buy food and travel to the DHSS office . |
| 22 | The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank . |