Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheep were generally found on the more upland areas and were often ‘ herded ’ rather than farmed by full-time farmer/shepherds . |
| 2 | The valuations are those of estate agent Peter Freitag but , on this occasion , they were not based on the usual detailed investigation of the inside of the houses . |
| 3 | Sharp rises in the national export statistics in both 1523–4 and 152 rule out any general depression ; any unemployment can only have been temporary and localised , as the disorders in the eastern counties were not repeated on the same scale anywhere . |
| 4 | Pledges on which less than ten shillings had been lent became the property of the pawnbroker if they were not collected on the appointed day . |
| 5 | In previous World Cups , two days were allocated to each match so that contests which were not concluded on the first could be decided on the reserve day . |
| 6 | Independent candidates were not included on the electoral lists , leaving only Socialist Alliance candidates . |
| 7 | Strong groups of men were not needed on the artificial waterways ; two people and a horse sufficed . |
| 8 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 9 | Some bees were already crawling on the early clover . |
| 10 | The four SROs have evolved largely through the choice of the financial institutions and intermediaries themselves , and there is no suggestion that these were arbitrarily placed on the financial system . |
| 11 | Although they resembled the M Type they were usually found on the short workings on the Sutton and Mitcham routes . |
| 12 | A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner . |
| 13 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |
| 14 | But his eyes were still fixed on the little bed , trying to make out any movement in or upon it . |
| 15 | His lips were still purse on the last words when they suddenly sprang wide as he saw her almost stagger back from him , her hand to her throat , the colour draining from her face . |
| 16 | Cumulatively , however , the aura of association with the US was of immense political benefit to those who called themselves a provisional government but who were still skating on the thin surface of political respectability and had by no means attained a state of acknowledged legitimacy . |
| 17 | Grand Met was going directly to the new format , but analysts were still working on the old style p&l accounts . |
| 18 | The result was that other departments er particularly the fitters for example er who were still working on the old scheme , wanted to , they then wanted to come onto the scheme . |
| 19 | The last reverberations of the gong were still vibrating on the still air when a door down the corridor burst open and young girl raced out onto the landing , heading for the stairs . |
| 20 | Classification of the disease course ( remission/mild , moderate or severe ) and calculation of the mean stool frequency were both based on the highest level of disease activity experienced during the entire study . |
| 21 | Doubts were also cast on the procedural elements of the case . |
| 22 | With the exception of Glastonbury , who produced the occasional ‘ Oh dear , I do n't know ’ sound , those present were also united on the general untrustworthiness of the late Trueman . |
| 23 | For a half a century from the 1840s , Shorthorn bulls from Britain and Dutch Black Pied bulls were used to improve local red and red-pied cattle in central and southern Belgium ; they were also used on the black-and-white Charleroi ( which also had some Charolais influence later ) . |
| 24 | Despite the rhetoric of slogans looking to the socialization of industry , such moves were often based on the basic need to continue working to protect living standards . |
| 25 | The lesions were linear or dotted in shape , and were often located on the upper part of the mucosal folds . |
| 26 | In healthy volunteers , small gap junctions were often identified on the lateral plasmalemma of gastric surface mucous cells , mainly at the level of the cell nucleus ( Figs 1 , 2 ) . |
| 27 | The fact that more than 70,000 men were now concentrated on the western flank of Madrid ( compared to 14,000 deployed in October ) bore witness to Nationalist determination to take the capital . |
| 28 | For this was the season when at every doorway and table the locals were noisily betting on the lilliputian battles of fighting cicadas . |
| 29 | Examples are certainly known behind the main frontages in whatever land was available , as at both Margidunum and Mildenhall , just within their respective defences ; but they were frequently imposed on the main frontages , often overlying earlier occupation levels . |
| 30 | Demonstrations against the poll tax also took place in Manchester and those events were continuously reported on the local radio stations to which prisoners habitually listen . |