Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The tip of the catheter was positioned directly on the gestational sac . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was to focus especially on the apparent difficulties of resettling the mostly elderly long-stay population of the asylums . |
| 7 | Bunny was going home on a twenty-four-hour pass and Meredith returning from a week 's leave in Hoylake . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This suggests that physical matching was based entirely on a non-verbal mental representation of the stimuli . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The first minute-book declared that the Society was based specifically on the Christian faith and on Christian principles . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Attention was focused overwhelmingly on the political and ideological antecedents of the revolution , on the ideas and activities of the government and the liberal , moderate socialist and Bolshevik parties , rather than on social and economic developments . |
| 17 | Although Nizan was in Moscow at the very outset of the Stalinist purges , his gaze was focused less on the national than on the international scene . |
| 18 | The moon was shining brightly on the great stones , and between them , on the flat ground , lay the girl . |
| 19 | But , as he passed the children , he saw he was closing fast on a grey saloon car , which ‘ appeared from nowhere ’ in the fast lane , he added . |
| 20 | She was stationed now on the male floor and visited him frequently — sometimes in the line of duty , sometimes for a few minutes when her work was finished , often — as now , when she should have been elsewhere — for an illicit cigarette . |
| 21 | was sitting comfortably on a low branch on a tall pine tree in the Wakefield 's back garden , she had her knees up round her chin and was leaning against the trunk , this was Elizabeth 's thinking seat , the place that she went to be alone , there was a lot to think about , tomorrow Mrs , Mr Davis her form teacher would announce the winner of the class essay contest . |
| 22 | He was standing here on the other side of the door , knowing nothing of Isabel 's plans . |
| 23 | Snow was settling thickly on the raw earth , now , and on the blacker areas which had already been topsoiled . |
| 24 | The selling of horses was conducted here on an organised basis by a firm of auctioneers from Harrogate , but the auctioneer had only one horse to sell in 1987 . |
| 25 | AN open verdict was recorded yesterday on a 63year-old man whose body was found in the sea two days after he went missing . |
| 26 | ‘ He said to tell you he was working hard on the unknown numbers , and you are not to put yourself in danger of arrest . ’ |
| 27 | The car was in Cairo and belonged to my brother , who was working there on a six-month contract . |