Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of the meeting was widely blamed on the reported refusal of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates , two of the main over-producers , to offer production cuts . |
| 2 | She was enjoying the effect she was obviously having on the local population . |
| 3 | The angular shape was obviously modelled on the front half of a mining ship , but modelled by a madman with no sense of proportion . |
| 4 | She was entirely concentrated on the curved grip of her hands on his loins , and the rhythmic swing of her body as she leaned and relaxed , forcing the water out of him and dragging the air into him . |
| 5 | Furthermore , they doubted whether the new , austere Protestant beliefs had in fact appealed to the laity , suggesting instead that Protestantism proved highly unpopular and was only imposed on the English people through force , by means of a government-sponsored process which met with great difficulties , and was only completed late in Elizabeth I 's reign . |
| 6 | Another item I picked up some time ago from across the Atlantic was the information that the British 7′¼″ gauge was only found on the Great Eastern , a piece of information that I 'm sure Vic Smith will agree to be even more surprising than anything in his talk ! |
| 7 | I was very shaken I was only sitting on the other side of the wall . |
| 8 | After the decision in and which was only reported on the fifth of October of this year in the all England reports . |
| 9 | Consequently F. Sherwood-Taylor 's book The young chemist was soon located on the public library shelves . |
| 10 | This was finally achieved on the fifth of July 1948 when the Labour Government implemented the Beveridge Report . |
| 11 | The diagnosis of primary Sjögren 's syndrome was finally made on the typical symptoms of dry eyes , dry mouth , the abnormal Schirmer test , and a positive labial salivary gland biopsy . |
| 12 | Mozart arrived back in Salzburg in mid-January and his certificate of appointment was finally signed on the 17th of that month . |
| 13 | Gray was already working on the second edition when he caught smallpox from his nephew , developed the confluent form of the disease , and died at 8 Wilton Street , Belgrave Square , London , 8 June 1871 , aged thirty-six according to the obituary notices of the Lancet and the Proceedings of the Royal Society , which raises the question of his date of birth , usually stated as 1827 . |
| 14 | But karate was already emerging on the European scene , thanks to the efforts of the French martial arts teacher , Henri Plee . |
| 15 | His new putter would take the world by storm because it was revolutionary and , as Brian Harley was already demonstrating on the pro tour , the most effective putter ever designed . |
| 16 | They had all their limited attention focused on Hrun , who was admittedly built on the same lines as themselves . |
| 17 | A man of considerable charm , but of a facile and shallow intellect , his sparkle was somehow dampened on the public stage . |
| 18 | This principle was not lost on the creative . |
| 19 | The irony was not lost on the smiling Scot yesterday when he said : ‘ I wo n't be making comparisons or drawing conclusions on Wednesday . |
| 20 | His request was not complied with , and the Hearing was not convened on the first lawful day after the children 's removal . |
| 21 | When proposing this fusion of functions , Tim Renton stressed that the prospective department was not modelled on the French Ministry of Culture ; it will doubtless develop rather ad hoc at the outset and its role , number of staff and size of budget will depend crucially on the views of the new Minister . |
| 22 | A returned value of zero signifies that the specified file was not found on the specified ( or default ) device . |
| 23 | A returned value of zero signifies that the specified file was not found on the specified ( or default ) device . |
| 24 | The plan was generally based on the Latin cross and roofing was of timber . |
| 25 | He had been educated in Britain and in 1875 , as an eighteen-year-old student , had brought the first football to Madeira — some thirteen years before it was ever played on the Portuguese mainland . |
| 26 | By 1937 this was helping to bring into the orbit of Left politics an increasing number of younger , better educated middle-class activists , who found themselves confronting a leadership which still belonged to the 1920s intellectually and was socially based on the older industrial areas and occupations . |
| 27 | Daphne treated them all with the same disdain , confiding in me that her one true love was still serving on the Western Front — not that she once mentioned his name in my presence . |
| 28 | Dierdriu was still seated on the High Throne , watching him , and Fergus knew a quick anticipation , and thought : is she about to tell me the truth about my birth ? and was both intrigued and apprehensive , for he had never been told anything of his true parents . |
| 29 | It is clear that until April 1102 the pope was still insisting on the full observance of his predecessor 's decrees . |
| 30 | It so happened that the local station was still waiting on the True Brit for recognition of a tidbit passed on to that paper six months ago about a rural dean and a lady elephant-tamer . |