Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 2 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 3 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 4 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 5 | In the Fox case many people connected with the convicted man were hauled on to the national stage by the popular press . |
| 6 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 7 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 8 | Moreover , the SPOs — who were intended to be the key link between ‘ bottom-up ’ development and strategic planning — had large managerial responsibilities and were grafted on to the developmental CMHT model rather than being key initiators of it . |
| 9 | They arrived at the airport , and were rushed on to the 747 to Hong Kong . |
| 10 | Clods of earth were thrown on to the stout elm coffin , and the mourners began to leave . |
| 11 | Now , suddenly , those who clung to these notions were thrown on to the defensive and soon outnumbered . |
| 12 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 13 | Tools , especially bellows , were passed on to the eldest boy , younger sons had the opportunity to rent workshops of their own . |
| 14 | He quoted fully from Miller 's letters on pollination of tulips by bees and on cross-fertilisation of white and red cabbage , and these observations were passed on to the Royal Society ( Phil . |
| 15 | Cuts last year in the Dutch health budget were passed on to the national applied research organization ( TNO ) , whose own grant is being halved by 1994 . |
| 16 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 17 | For the user it is as if everyone were signed on to the same LAN . |