Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crucial experiments with standardised diets , each time excluding or adding wheat or rye flour over long periods in these children with coeliac disease , were performed on four children in the Wilhelmina Children 's Hospital in Utrecht and in one child in the Juliana Children 's Hospital in The Hague . |
| 2 | Both small satellite transmitters and regular VHF ( radio ) transmitters were used on four birds , while just one of each type was attached to two additional birds . |
| 3 | Do you remember at the announcement of last year 's results we erm we mentioned that we were concentrating on four themes one 's cost reduction er driving for cash erm , improving our market share and investing for the future . |
| 4 | For the Home Office this apparent extension of power was justified on four grounds . |
| 5 | The detective chief-inspector confirmed Anderson was interviewed on four occasions on Monday and twice yesterday . |
| 6 | The case for the plaintiff was argued on four bases : ( a ) The verb " practice " in the relevant clause had to be construed in the context of the agreement as a whole and in the proper factural matrix . |
| 7 | External locus of control was measured on four items , no more than one of which was allowed to be missing . |
| 8 | He told delegates the party 's programme for improving and protecting the environment was founded on four principles — ‘ a presumption against pollution ; the principle that the polluter pays ; precaution as the basis for all policy ; and freedom of environmental information ’ . |
| 9 | For each resident , mobility was assessed on four levels ( fully ambulant , ambulant apart from stairs , needing attendant or aid , bedfast ) . |
| 10 | Prof Midwinter was commenting on four options for single-tier councils put forward in a Scottish Office consultation document . |
| 11 | This was based on four cases including two cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma but none of leukaemia . |
| 12 | Clines , 62 , a former Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) agent , was convicted on four counts of having failed to disclose $260,000 in arms sales profits on his income tax returns and of failing to file reports on foreign financial accounts in 1985 and 1986 . |