Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bachelors were rather frowned on in the FCO . |
| 2 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 3 | Often , nowadays , he did n't have to do it ; relatives might live in different parts of the country , and usually they were best called on by a uniformed man . |
| 4 | Upon arrival at the docks , the Spitfires were immediately hoisted on to the carrier deck . |
| 5 | These were sometimes directly discounted for coin or notes but , as we have seen , were increasingly sent on to the London agent for collection . |
| 6 | The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association . |
| 7 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |
| 8 | Striped deck chairs had gone from the long , grey stretch of shingle below the Promenade , and the fairy-lights that spiralled around the white lampposts were never turned on after the beginning of October for reasons of economy . |