Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 2 | The cylinders were left on the line betweenWroughton and Wootton Bassett , immediately opposite a council-run gypsy site . |
| 3 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 4 | While Leontief , Pigou and Patinkin were speculating on the effects on demand of what might have to be , in principle , quite massive price reductions , the AD-AS framework gives the impression that relatively small price changes would make a powerful impact on aggregate demand . |
| 5 | Before PNP , Leeds primary schools were staffed on the conventional basis of a head plus a teacher for each registration group , and in the national league table many Leeds primary classes were very large . |
| 6 | It may well have been a more sensible policy , therefore , to make the Phase 1/3 disparity less extreme , and to use the resources to ensure that all schools were staffed on the 1986 Select Committee recommended basis of n registration groups plus one , with further pro rata adjustments for school size and specific challenges like those of the inner city . |
| 7 | These schools were chosen on the advice of the Chief Inspector to represent schools which had made use of the booklet and schools which had not . |
| 8 | The Lycée of Galata Serai had been founded by Frenchmen in Turkey and English public schools were imitated on the Gold Coast . |
| 9 | The views of the Foreign , Commonwealth Relations , and Colonial Offices were sought on the security of tenure that British forces were likely to enjoy in territories East of Suez ; but in the late 1950s there was no consensus on the probable speed with which Britain 's dependent territories would advance to independence . |
| 10 | Who knows , if the Gauguins were left on the island one day they might be worth — ’ I drew a breath — ‘ twenty or even thirty thousand each ? ’ |
| 11 | Drugs and solutions were prepared on the day of use . |
| 12 | The housing problems detailed in the TSA report and potential solutions were discussed on the first day . |
| 13 | This would have meant extra guards were needed on the camps , and would have forced the British soliders to use force . |
| 14 | Two minutes later , on the concrete of a Royal Air Force aerodrome , the engines of the German bomber were dying on the light west wind . |
| 15 | Chemical pesticides were sprayed on the tomato plants to kill the whitefly . |
| 16 | The two suites of coal samples chosen for this study were selected on the basis of their maceral analysis and maturity . |
| 17 | DNA concentrations were determined on the basis of ε 260 = 13200 litre.mol -1 . |
| 18 | Her red high heels were clicking on the pavement . |
| 19 | Mr McCallum continued that the decisions made by the Social Work Department were made on the basis of confidential information , and should that department reply to the Action Committee , he said , they might divulge information which should nut be revealed at that time . |
| 20 | Twelve of their heads were impaled on the Charles Bridge pour encourager les autres and remained there for more than a decade . |
| 21 | In 1870 , they would point out , 47 per cent of the population in the United States were employed on the land . |
| 22 | These probes were chosen on the basis of conserved sequences within the POU domain of octamer DNA binding proteins [ 8 ] . |
| 23 | The Sabbath laws of the Jews were based on the story of creation in Genesis . |
| 24 | Both Greeks and Jews were living on the borders of the Persian Empire . |
| 25 | I do n't think the snake had fully wakened up when I caught it , and I was careful not to jar it as I ran back to where my brothers and Blyth were lying on the grass . |
| 26 | Two rather pudding-faced little girls in a limousine were succeeded on the screen by a smiling George VI and Roosevelt , with wives , at the Roosevelt country estate . |
| 27 | Marked on the back ‘ Bristol Views ’ , these delightful transfer printed pictures were based on the work of late 18th- and early 19th-century painters such as F. Nicholson . |
| 28 | Pictures were pinned on the walls , copies of pictures she admired , notably Millais and Holman Hunt . |
| 29 | The operation of the twenty-two disciplinary offences was suspended and concessions were made on the fees for signing on and off . |
| 30 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |