Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus waved in the direction of one of the stalls where fish were arranged on beds of ice . |
| 2 | Both were remanded on bail for reports . |
| 3 | Sixteen men including three Liverpool Police officers were remanded on bail at Liverpool this week accused of conspiring to distribute tickets for the Irish sweepstake . |
| 4 | TWO men were remanded on bail by Rhuddlan Magistrates yesterday on a charge of passing two counterfeit £10 notes . |
| 5 | They were remanded on bail by Barnsley magistrates until next month . |
| 6 | ( First Edition ) Nine men arrested during a police raid on the Broadwater Farm housing estate in north London were remanded on bail by Haringey magistrates on charges ranging from assault to threatening behaviour and obstruction . |
| 7 | Manageress Patima Heron , 24 , assistant manager Lance Green , 20 , and hostess Helen Calderwood , 19 , were remanded on bail until March 11 . |
| 8 | They are adjusted so that if the project were completed on time to specification the contractor would realize a reasonable profit . |
| 9 | Further investigations were carried out to determine whether or not the proportion of straightforward deliveries varied with the location of the items requested , to examine the proportion of deliveries from each location which were placed on reserve for readers , and to record the relative numbers of non-straightforward deliveries from each location which were attributable either to ‘ initial failure ’ or to the need to transfer items from another reader . |
| 10 | Soldiers were placed on guard outside newspapers and broadcasting offices . |
| 11 | Twenty-eight ambulance and paramedic staff were placed on standby in Northwich . |
| 12 | During August , two delicate replica airframes were placed on loan with NAM from Keith Fordyce 's Torbay Aircraft Museum Collection . |
| 13 | The Committee accepted the prototypes first , which duly arrived in January 1934 and were placed on display in Talbot Square ( Opposite ) . |
| 14 | The coffee bar saw thirteen young people converted during the year , who were baptised on profession of faith . |
| 15 | At a concert at London 's Town and Country Club they were joined on stage by Metelic , a team of Ukrainian dancers from Reading who were given a rousing reception . |
| 16 | In 1959–60 intermediate range ballistic missiles were located on sites in Turkey pending the development of reliable American ICBMs . |
| 17 | Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] . |
| 18 | In 1991 , out of about 30,000 discharges from psychiatric hospitals and units , 384 people in Scotland were discharged on leave of absence extending beyond 28 days . |
| 19 | Data were collected on crystals of selenomethionyl GH5 by rotations about the a and b axes , using an Enraf-Nonius FAST area detector and the computer program MADNES on beam-line X12C at the NSLS at Brookhaven National Laboratory . |
| 20 | Some were shot on location in shanty towns or marginal neighbourhoods . |
| 21 | Four raids were made on Malta on Sunday 13th. , but the Hurricanes were involved in escorting four destroyers into harbour much of the day , and only two interceptions were made . |
| 22 | The conditions under which loans were made on security of goods remaining the property of the borrowers were strictly regulated by the Bills of Sale Acts . |
| 23 | Cause of the last-minute rush was a ruling by KEMI , the Swedish chemical inspectorate , that special safety warnings were needed on cans of antifoulings . |
| 24 | The workforce at British Leather Company were told on Monday of plans to cut the workforce to 35 from 332 at its two factories in Birkenhead and Litherland . |
| 25 | Straight lines were drawn on maps by Whitehall bureaucrats to represent the borders of countries , and concerns for the disappearing wildlife were manifest in the establishment of National Parks and reserves to protect wildlife and in the expulsion of the villagers from their traditional homes to be re-settled outside the borders of a park . |
| 26 | To give one obvious example ; for decades earlier in this century the major differences in economic activity between regions in this country were based on sectors of production . |
| 27 | Orthodox pupils of the Jewish secondary school were greeted on arrival at Shefford with a welcoming ham omelette . |
| 28 | Fifteen out of 90 methods hours were spent on Language in Education . |
| 29 | On one day in March 1969 , four and a half hours were spent on points of order and discussing the confidentiality of attendance records . |
| 30 | In 1854 , appeals were introduced on matters of law and lawyers were allowed to practise in these courts . |