Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 2 | I suppose in the past , this sort of consultation was done just verbally on the telephone was it ? |
| 3 | The standard way of exploring fur lead was by searching for veinstone pebbles in the becks of gills , and when enough of the veinstones were found to indicate a good deposit of lead-bearing ores a dam was built up above on the fell at the head of the beck . |
| 4 | Most years it was washed up again on the next or a later tide , but this was of no consequence so long as the Scapegoat had gone . |
| 5 | The Steam Museum is dedicated to the steam engine which was used not only on the railways but in industry too . |
| 6 | I was already working as Derek 's apprentice carpet-fitter in my spare time — when I had any — but the wage I was getting was going not only on the birds ' upkeep but also on mine . |
| 7 | But I 'm very disappointed about that , because er coming into the final furlong , Lester was going very well on the inside , but just lost out on the photo finish . |
| 8 | Although Viking was lying quietly enough at the moment we could tell by the sudden gusts which hissed down from the high southern cliff that it was blowing quite hard on the weather side . |
| 9 | Throughout 1911 his attention was focused almost exclusively on the Balkans , to which he travelled frequently , having many friends among remote inland brigands as well as among the cream of Kemal Atatürk 's reformist movement in Constantinople . |
| 10 | Overall emphasis was laid once again on the training aspect of the work of member organisations . |
| 11 | Mr McNeil said yesterday that although the region would co-operate fully with the CRE investigation as it was legally required to do , he believed it was focusing too narrowly on the region 's assessment procedures . |
| 12 | She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room . |
| 13 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
| 14 | Now the suddenly released , accumulated weight of all those pent-up seconds was bearing down heavily on the unbraced stones . |
| 15 | The Dominican looked suspiciously at the white , haggard face of Cranston , the bleary red eyes , and the way he was swaying rather dangerously on the top step . |