Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yorkshire was floated on the Unlisted Securities Market in August and the chairman , Michael Mallett , says the recent ‘ heady growth ’ in revenue is slackening as the squeeze on retail sales tightens . |
| 2 | The dissolution of the remaining chantries in 1547 , for example , was justified on the Lutheran grounds that they encouraged ‘ vain opinions ’ concerning purgatory and intercessory masses and left people ignorant of ‘ their very true and perfect salvation through the death of Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 3 | A series of tests was developed on the following topics : number , money , measurement , tabular data and spatial concepts . |
| 4 | And he maintained he was sacked on the direct orders of the RUC because they knew he was a security risk . |
| 5 | In 1975 a steel fence was added on the visiting supporters ' side of the corridor to further restrict access between the two halves . |
| 6 | Wellington said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 7 | Trading was organised on the same lines as for other securities ; but , after a number of preparatory changes introduced during the preceding months , the trading system was completely restructured on Monday , 27 October 1986 . |
| 8 | Data was collected on the three variables for the existing shops and the following model emerged : £ Sales per week = 193 + 0.23 x shoppers + 0.118 x floor area |
| 9 | Signs of Constantine 's new deal for the church were that the council petitioned and obtained from the emperor a degree of tax exemption for the sake of the church 's welfare for the poor , and that exile was imposed on the two bishops who withheld their signature to the creed and canons . |
| 10 | And , indeed , when Indian ink was daubed on a few minnows , which were then put among a school , the painted minnows were disproportionately taken by predators . |
| 11 | No official announcement was made on the specific types of retaliation under discussion at the talks in the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah . |
| 12 | As the town became more prosperous in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries a new and greater university was built on the ruined foundations of the old . |
| 13 | However , being known for measurement does not necessarily help when tendering for consultancy work , but given that the reputation of most of our rivals was built on the interpretive reports prepared by companies such as ours , the transition should simply be one of perception . |
| 14 | The British Empire was built on the unshed tears of small boys in preparatory and public schools . |
| 15 | No considered view was offered on the underlying problems of prison conditions that had triggered the riots . |
| 16 | Coffee was cultivated on the steep slopes while housing and processing plants were located on flatter ridges . |
| 17 | For all his international notoriety , Harari is barely known in his native country , and the one photograph known to exist of him was reprinted on the front pages of newspapers yesterday accompanying the news of his arrest . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the land was less crowded : migrant foreign labour was needed on the Prussian estates at some seasons . |
| 19 | Aiming to identify the patients dying specifically from their liver disease and to avoid biases by time dependent variables ( blood transfusion requirements within the 72 hours ) , statistical analysis was performed on the 91 patients still alive after 72 hours and after exclusion of the patients dying from other causes than liver failure or exsanguination ( eight ) . |
| 20 | This was performed on the 10 patients with pain after gastric surgery who also carried out the sodium probe study . |
| 21 | The following analysis by treatment was performed on the 11 patients in the enalapril group and the 10 in the hydrochlorothiazide group who completed the study . |
| 22 | By eliminating all theological and metaphysical elements from his work , he sought to challenge the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy which was founded on the natural rights of the citizen and the inalienable sovereignty of the state . |
| 23 | Her brave and beaming face was duplicated on the reversed covers . |
| 24 | As the number of patients who originally had had solitary stones was small , the difference does not reach statistical significance and this was also true when the analysis was based on the 26 patients who had recurrence diagnosed by oral cholecystectography or ultrasound , or both ( 14.5 ( 9.5 ) % for those who had had single stones and 46.4 ( 8.1 ) % for those with multiple stones : NS ) . |
| 25 | The Oxford Group was founded in the early years of the century by Frank Buchman , a Lutheran Minister , whose controversial evangelistic movement was based on the four principles of Absolute Honesty , Absolute Purity , Absolute Unselfishness and Absolute Love . |
| 26 | Unionists had a slight majority of the English borough seats , but this was based on the small towns of the West and South rather than the heavy industrial centres of the North . |
| 27 | Several of the sequences used shapes , and one was based on the many arrangements which can be made using the pieces of the Chinese tangram puzzle . |
| 28 | They said Mr Wicks 's decision was based on the flawed findings that the delay was justifiable and there was no prejudice . |
| 29 | The diagnosis of PSS was based on the preliminary criteria of the American Rheumatism Association . |
| 30 | The paper was based on the exploratory findings of some 30 interviews he had conducted with radio astronomers and biologists . |