Example sentences of "was [verb] on [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was voted on by the clubs but there has been no ratification of that by the management committee . |
| 2 | The House of Commons did not itself govern , but government was carried on within the confines of its guidance and approval . |
| 3 | I think it would be true to say that my two brothers and sister and I were products of the Anglican parochial system , at a time when almost all charitable work was carried on by the churches . |
| 4 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 5 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 6 | However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 7 | Isabel was going on about the boots . |
| 8 | And we found that many parents were inclined to believe these kinds of reports , and yet this just was n't true if one saw what was going on in the schools . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's more than likely I just imagined something was going on behind the scenes . |
| 10 | I ca n't see that Cowdrey knew what was going on among the fielders while Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram bowled . |
| 11 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 12 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 13 | It was rather a more specific and harsher problem which , to put it bluntly , was to survive as Westland was drifting on to the rocks of insolvency . |
| 14 | A buffet lunch was laid on for the advisers , a chicken leg , various meat-filled butties , an apple and a large Kit-Kat . |
| 15 | When Kent played Surrey in 1890 a fine spread was laid on for the gentlemen but the professionals ‘ were left to shift for themselves , and thought themselves lucky to get a bit of bread and cheese ’ . |
| 16 | The High Sheriff of Cornwall , Sir John Trelawney , opened an ornamental gate with a silver key and a free tea was laid on for the children of the surrounding parishes . |
| 17 | At its meeting on 30 October 1990 , the board received a report from Ian Wells , a senior enforcement officer , on the progress of an investigation he was carrying on into the affairs and business of the Winchester Group , an appointed representative of Norwich Union . |
| 18 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 19 | That impression was passed on to the children , and then to David . |
| 20 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 21 | Yet , not all this increase in bulk costs was passed on to the consumers in retail tariffs . |
| 22 | Although the wool producers seem to have borne part of the tax costs , the substantial increase in cloth production during the war is most easily explicable if a large part of the wool tax was passed on by the exporters to the foreign buyers , while the English cloth manufacturers were able to undercut their Continental rivals ( 88 , pp.39–40 ) . |
| 23 | More significantly the same civil law principle led Sir Robert Phillimore , in the Admiralty Court in The George and Richard ( 1871 ) L.R. 3 A. & E. 466 , 480 , to hold that a posthumous child , later born alive , ranks as a child of its father — in that case a ship 's carpenter who lost his life when his ship was blown on to the rocks and wrecked following disablement in a collision — for the purposes of Lord Campbell 's Act , the Fatal Accidents Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 93 ) . |
| 24 | Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all . |