Example sentences of "and was [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Peter Clough , Research Fellow in the Division of Education , completed his Ph.D thesis on the phenomenology of classroom talk in 1983 , and was appointed on a part-time lecturer in Division , 1983–5 . |
| 2 | The Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance , Mohammed Khatami , resigned on July 16 and was replaced on a provisional basis by Ali Larijani . |
| 3 | Elinor had woken up and was trying on a black dress that looked more like a kind of solo tent than anything else . |
| 4 | It had no sharps or flats and was based on a six-line stave — instead of the five-line one which is usual for musical notation . |
| 5 | At one stage the Birmingham New Street interchange was an integral part of the West Coast electrified service and was based on an hourly sequence of arrivals/departures from the LMR electrified area and to the North East via Sheffield . |
| 6 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 7 | Moreover , there was a greater danger : His Grace the King was now interested in these relics and was insisting on a thorough search for them . |
| 8 | For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment . |
| 9 | Peter quickly established a graduate and apprentice training scheme , which achieved accreditation from the IMechE , and was working on a similar scheme for the Institute of Electrical Engineers accreditation . |
| 10 | Among the poor who had no property , desertion was the informal answer to marital unhappiness and was practised on an unknown scale until the Second World War : certainly , eighteenth and nineteenth century poor law officials often expressed concern at the number of deserted wives drawing relief . |