Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peasant disturbances grew ominously in number and intensity as each decade passed , and outbreaks were overwhelmingly concentrated on private estates . |
| 2 | Obvious care was taken to make these small black and white photographs stand up to such scrutiny as they were immaculately printed on fibre-based paper and mounted on expensive conservation board , also protecting the investment of the potential buyer . |
| 3 | Of the opposing parties , a score of men lost their lives or were badly hurt on each side . |
| 4 | A change of identity was also mooted in view of the fact that in BR livery the numbers and names were merely painted on these locomotives . |
| 5 | All teachers were personally briefed on this procedure , which is designed to minimise underreporting of smoking behaviour . |
| 6 | They had found their own solution to the humanist problem of mating music with words in musique mesurée , the influence of which lingered on although it was no longer practised with doctrinaire thoroughness , and the air de cour with lute accompaniment flourished to the near exclusion of polyphonic song , though some of the published lute airs were obviously based on polyphonic originals . |
| 7 | ‘ The Los Angeles Riots were obviously based on built-up frustration . |
| 8 | The text was photographic copies of her own handwriting and the thousands of plates required were laboriously produced on hand-coated paper . |
| 9 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 10 | After repeated petitions by the ‘ commonalty of the county ’ , charters confirming the disafforestment of Surrey were finally granted on 26 December 1327 : they were to be proclaimed in the county court , and the warden of Windsor forest was ordered to drive out all game from the disafforested areas into the remaining forest within the next forty days . |
| 11 | In Latin works of an important nature titles , headings and the opening words of chapters were largely based on Roman script forms , the majuscule style of writing ; and the body of the text written in an uncial form which , after the coming of the Normans and the spread of their influence , was gradually succeeded by a further uncial style . |
| 12 | The sheer scale of military involvement was bound to place a major strain on her resources , and it was unlikely that a Japan that had been unable to achieve a Chinese surrender in four years when her military efforts were largely concentrated on that country would be able to secure a military victory now that many of her resources were diverted elsewhere . |
| 13 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 14 | Descendants of the earlier hornbooks for the instruction of children , they were usually printed on coloured card . |
| 15 | Based on our clinical experience , we arbitrarily chose to dilate these patients at weekly intervals and one to six bougies were usually passed on each occasion , depending upon the patient 's tolerance and the tightness of strictures . |
| 16 | Many were homeless or orphaned , held in gaol owing to a lack of children 's homes ; others , it was even alleged , were deliberately arrested on flimsy pretexts to be exploited as unpaid servants or sweepers when the gaol population rose . |
| 17 | Our links with the Women 's League of Health and Beauty were further strengthened on 21 April when Jean Parmiter was invited to teach at the East Midlands Associated Members ' Annual Reunion , held in Groby , Leicestershire . |
| 18 | The sole promise of rewarding friendship had come from Sir Henry Agnew and his daughter ; yet both now , it seemed , were deeply engaged on speculative work of their own , and had taken to a life of almost complete seclusion . |
| 19 | In those days , horses were still used on many farms for ploughing and I soon found myself staggering red-faced up a furrow , furiously gripping the wooden handles , astonished at the power of the mighty beasts plodding sombrely ahead . |
| 20 | In arguing their case the LNA were clearly drawing on those traditions of philanthropy which emphasized the central role of women in the reform of moral conditions . |
| 21 | They were both released on conditional bail until March 26 . |
| 22 | The two boys aged 15 and 16 were both released on unconditional bail pending another hearing next week . |
| 23 | Similar effects were also achieved on white marble through the use of different finishes : soft polishing of flesh parts , for instance , was often contrasted with the rasp finishing of hair or drapery , thus creating different subtle effects of light and dark . |
| 24 | Alcoholic beverages frequently played a ceremonial and religious role and were also consumed on social occasions , mainly with a meal . |
| 25 | Replacement heifers accounted for a proportion but male stores were also found on many units . |
| 26 | Perforated cowrie shells were also found on either thigh of an old man of the Upper Palaeolithic period buried in the Barma Grande , Mentone . |
| 27 | The three companies and eight of the defendants were also accused on four counts of fraudulently inducing purchases of shares in Blue Arrow and NatWest Investment Bank , County NatWest Securities and UBS Phillips & Drew Securities . |
| 28 | Jewish cemeteries were also defaced on several occasions . |
| 29 | But they were later blamed on human error . |
| 30 | Before the advent of radiocarbon , chronologies for later prehistory in Western Europe were often based on presumed linkages , however tenuous , with those civilisations of the Near and Middle East which had historical calendars . |