Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years many sailing ships were wrecked on the rocky shores of Madeira , driven there by foul weather . |
| 2 | They had fulfilled various ecological niches which were occupied on the American continents by other birds . |
| 3 | The newly established British Medical Journal was quick to stress the general benefits to public morality if the legislation were imposed on the northern cities . |
| 4 | Lady Aberdeen , Chair of the Trust , said : ‘ The students were selected on the personal recommendations of their college tutors for their high standard of performances and for their stated desires for a successful career on international concert platforms . |
| 5 | For a while Ayrshire and Durham Shorthorn bulls were used on the Breton cows but the results were not worth while . |
| 6 | But here we could see for ourselves how timber-framed partition walls , filled in with brickwork , were used on the upper storeys over the larger rooms to ensure no weight pressed on their ceilings ; and how joiners had constructed the mahogany bookcases in the library . |
| 7 | All teachers who taught the family smoking education project were briefed on the basic components of the project and provided with basic guideline notes , which included a teacher 's record of the lessons . |
| 8 | Although Cézanne 's painting was profoundly original , his ambition was to use his own intensive study of nature to revivify classical or traditional painting ; the means he used , although they were highly personal , were founded on the optical discoveries of the Impressionists . |
| 9 | They were based on the active ingredients norfloxacin ( 7 ) , enoxacin ( 8 ) or ofloxacin ( 9 ) . |
| 10 | The proposed regions , which would each have an elected regional council , were based on the pre-1987 provinces and on a 1984 language survey . |
| 11 | First , it is possible that the volatiles were borne on the small bodies from which the planets accreted . |
| 12 | Rome for Rupert meant the Vatican Library , the Museo Preistorico Luigi Pigorini , and restaurants in Trastevere , but azaleas were massed on the Spanish Steps at Easter and he could see that this might be the ideal setting for Ianthe . |
| 13 | Skates were tied on the wrong feet ; some boys were trying to remember when they had last changed their socks ; the smell was incredible . |
| 14 | It is here that the nose section of the 747 landed , 150 yards from the church , and 120 bodies were found on the surrounding hills . |
| 15 | Pools of water , presumably derived from this source , were observed on the upper parts of the beach and were not saturated with calcium carbonate . |
| 16 | Complementary pairs of oligonucleotides with the sequences indicated in Figure 1 were synthesized on an Applied Biosystems model 381A oligonucleotide synthesizer . |
| 17 | Despite the impact of the discount rate rise , which caused the dollar to fall in value , concerns were expressed on the international markets that a weak yen and high rates of domestic investment would mean an increase in Japan 's export capacity which would detrimentally affect global trade balances . |
| 18 | In addition to other recent mineral discoveries , the first significant oil deposits ( other than in the Kutubu oilfield area ) to have been located in the area since the 1950s were discovered on the southern slopes of the Highlands . |