Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining schemes were developed either on an LEA-wide basis or by schools working individually or in groups of six to eight . |
| 2 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 3 | Somehow , he had moved closer , and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat . |
| 4 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 5 | Letters were written either on a one-to-one basis , or , by circulating copies to network members , as one-to-many communications . |
| 6 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 7 | The political parties of the narrow and fragmented centre of the political spectrum , from which all governments had to be drawn , were agreed only on the fundamental issue of preserving the Fourth Republic : they had , as it were , reserved their right to disagree on everything else . |
| 8 | Transit times were measured once on the basal diet and once during sulphate feeding . |
| 9 | His proposals for the composition of his government were approved overwhelmingly on the following day . |
| 10 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 11 | These were contacted regularly on an informal basis for several months between their initial interview as part of the known sector sample and the start of the snowballing phase . |
| 12 | The issues in Samson were focused commonly on the internal struggles of the individual confronted with temptation , and whether the poem achieved a tragic dimension or not . |
| 13 | We were consulting widely on the possible change to a single-tier all-purpose authority structure in Scotland . |
| 14 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 15 | The Leader and the thin man were advancing cautiously on the remaining horses which were standing restless , uncertain and in need of quieting . |
| 16 | WHEN Germany 's politicians agreed in March on a ‘ solidarity pact ’ to help pay the cost of unification , their eyes were fixed dreamily on a distant future . |
| 17 | Although insufficient to provide the full service , these bogie cars were worked hard on the main line and sometimes worked to Thornton Heath but never to Addiscombe or Penge , where they might have been too long for some of the passing loops on these lines . |
| 18 | The Parliamentary elections of the spring proved to be bitterly contentious , and were fought largely on the old party lines , centring around the issues of Dissent and/or loyalty to the new regime . |
| 19 | As the church owned and managed the majority of the schools its faithful attended , and had a role in the management of the bulk of the remainder , the Roman catholic laity were left mainly on the receiving end of the educational policy thus legitimated . |
| 20 | At the Organising Committee , the retiring CEB chairman had confidently suggested that the old CEB organisation could continue to handle matters in this field and there would be little need for change : ‘ The CEB in conjunction with a strong committee on which the Ministry of Supply were represented were working hard on the generating plant extensions and it would not be necessary for the Organising Committee to worry over-much about the details of this programme in the meantime . ’ |
| 21 | Kurunagala , the centre of the Northern Band , remained an economic backwater in the 1860s , but in the late 1880s and 1890s coconut plantations were established there on a large scale . |