Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 2 | Einstein 's solution was to fall back on the old Romantic notion of the Imagination , suspending his disbelief in order to conduct what he called a " thought experiment " . |
| 3 | Now a mile or two ahead , we could see a white line where the swell was crashing up on the fringing reef . |
| 4 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 5 | Yet anyone who read the popular literature on the subject from the 50s found a massive denunciation of the welfare state which was blamed solely on the growing decline in parental responsibility . |
| 6 | In addition , a time series test was carried out on a random sample of 254 of these issues . |
| 7 | Because of the two factor experimental design ( substance and site ) , two way analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) was carried out on the incremental hormone responses after the test stimuli . |
| 8 | Extensive conservation work was carried out on an important manuscript map of the Isle of Lewis , produced by Alexander Gibbs in 1817 . |
| 9 | He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past , and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong ( which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole ) to intercept the bird . |
| 10 | The light of the risen sun was glittering now on the tall glazed windows of the central part and glowing like honey on the yellow walls . |
| 11 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 12 | The engine was started up , revving violently as the car was turned round on the narrow road . |
| 13 | Corbett remained sitting for hours following various trains of thought whilst Ranulf , having seen his son , was bouncing about on the broad , silk-canopied bed of Mistress Semplar . |
| 14 | The tip of the catheter was positioned directly on the gestational sac . |
| 15 | Private Roger Morrison 's body was washed up on a Morroccan beach 10 days ago after his speedboat had been fired on by local police . |
| 16 | It was modelled closely on the old Imperial chancery , using notaries , who were first employed to record the deeds of the early martyrs and the decrees of councils . |
| 17 | This was to focus especially on the apparent difficulties of resettling the mostly elderly long-stay population of the asylums . |
| 18 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 19 | Bunny was going home on a twenty-four-hour pass and Meredith returning from a week 's leave in Hoylake . |
| 20 | The van , which had Vermstroy Pest Control Ltd , Ipswich and Nunes , painted on its side , was turning round on the open area in front of the garage . |
| 21 | On Pack Meeting night she always changed early into her uniform , and now she was skipping gaily on the grassy path outside the cottage , practising fancy new steps for the Keep Fit Challenge . |
| 22 | Cathy when I was in hospital in er a physiotherapy bit , where they , where they brought children in , erm there was this little girl and like she was riding round on a little bike , you know , so she 's quite , quite old and she had er , in , in brace , but her legs were like out at the side and her feet were pointing down and they 're pointing up , I 'm just a bit confused . |
| 23 | He 'd flipped off the Ray-Bans , and the gold-flecked gaze was narrowed speculatively on the fluttering pulse at her throat , on the rapid rise and fall of her breasts as she strove to catch her breath . |
| 24 | Yet , beguiling as these songs may have been , there was little doubt that the success of Culture Club was based largely on the curious popular appeal of Boy George himself . |
| 25 | The anger of the Unionists was based partly on the old political frustration of government by log-rolling , and partly on a new constitutional point . |
| 26 | This suggests that physical matching was based entirely on a non-verbal mental representation of the stimuli . |
| 27 | It was based essentially on the old industrial areas of Scotland , Wales , and the North , on the public-sector unions , and on client electors on council housing estates and in the local-government services . |
| 28 | The first minute-book declared that the Society was based specifically on the Christian faith and on Christian principles . |
| 29 | The owner did not intend to leave the registration document but showed it to the dealer who arranged a trick whereby the owner was called away on an imaginary emergency thereby forgetting the registration document . |
| 30 | The strike was called off on the following day . |