Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 2 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 3 | Mr. Kentridge , for the commissioner , referred to seven factors which , he submitted , demonstrated that the taxpayer 's business and its profits were carried on in and were derived from Hong Kong . |
| 4 | No clear distinction could yet be made between the wholesale and retail trades that were carried on in the ‘ shops ’ in the historic centre of the city . |
| 5 | All the Victorian fry were grown on in tanks with a pH of only 7.4 . |
| 6 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 7 | For the last six hours , the girls were operated on in separate theatres . |
| 8 | Almost equally ambitious development projects were going on in Kenya at about the same time . |
| 9 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 10 | I was n't allowing myself to think too much , but below the conscious level all kinds of adjustments were going on in my head . |
| 11 | Yet even as these deliberations were going on in Washington , a new Sino-American crisis had developed in the Far East . |
| 12 | Washington said it knew for months that secret PLO-Israel negotiations were going on in Norway , but was surprised by the level of detail in the agreement hammered out in those Oslo talks . |
| 13 | Let me give another very recent example while these rather alarming , in some ways , events were going on in Arkensaw , the London Times — not the Sunday Times now — had as a centre page article by a distinguished cosmologist , Fred Hoyle , announcing to a startled world that he 'd suddenly acquired some doubts about evolution . |
| 14 | The Light Blues had a half-length lead at the Old Ship but with Gardiner setting an excellent rhythm , and with Davy , Maclennan and Bridge backing magnificently , Oxford were holding on in flat water . |
| 15 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
| 16 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 17 | The evening shadows were lengthening , one or two lights were coming on in buildings across the city and the dark mass of the cathedral stood out sharply against the soft viridian sky . |
| 18 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 19 | And if we look at the implications er West Yorkshire which were touched on in the beginning of this part of the debate . |
| 20 | These and their white peers were taken on in times of expansion . |
| 21 | The matter has received our closest and most careful consideration and although the details were worked on in 1886 for another canal in the Manchester district ( but not used ) they are all to all intents and purposes equally applicable to the Grand Union Canal , when that canal is improved , to be of the same working capacity as the Grand Junction Canal and to carry the same vessels . |
| 22 | The grey trousers were put on in the month of March last and the white waistcoats in May . ’ |
| 23 | it does n't who 's responsibility would it be to see that the old brochures were withdrawn and the new brochures were put on in there place ? |
| 24 | Erm most have , in fact most of which is er b er seventy four additional heads were put on in March , so we 've gone from seventeen twenty three to seventeen ninety seven erm and Mick accounted for most of those with forty four . |
| 25 | If fluke genes were passed on in snail eggs and sperms , the two bodies would evolve to become as one flesh . |
| 26 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 27 | But then , as night fell and the lights were switched on in the carriage , illuminating the sepia photographs of Morecambe Bay at dawn and donkeys trotting Blackpool sands , he felt his privacy was being invaded and had stopped making those conciliatory gestures . |
| 28 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |
| 29 | Other poor dealers were kept on in dealing jobs , because they were good at answering telephone inquiries , or at dealing on government privatisations . |
| 30 | The family were following on in a state of high Latin hysteria . |