Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , when facilities management first took off in the US , suppliers were dealing solely with mainframes , and could earn higher margins from significant economies of scale — several mainframes were centralised on one site , and could deal with the information technology requirements of many customers — and so the old bureau service was recreated under another name . |
| 2 | They had found a patch of clean sand half-shaded by the rocks that were heaped on one side of the little cove . |
| 3 | ‘ We were caught on one foot with our fingers in our mouths , ’ said one dealer , referring to widespread expectations of a hung Parliament . |
| 4 | Yet Acheson and Eisenhower were agreed on one thing . |
| 5 | our estimates were based on one sheet per function |
| 6 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |
| 7 | Quarto sheets were machined four pages at a time ( hence ‘ quarto ’ ) : four pages were printed on one side of the sheet , four on the other . |
| 8 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 9 | Apparent exceptions were put on one side to await later explanation within the Newtonian framework ; and this was the proper attitude for anyone wanting public recognition as a good scientist . |
| 10 | Now that I have time again I shall also be able to finish off the other articles that were put on one side during the museum work . |
| 11 | To her intense humiliation , Luke , Angel , Alejandro , three of Alejandro 's sons , and two of their friends who 'd come to lunch were playing on one pitch while Perdita had been put on another with Alejandro 's three younger sons and four of their cousins — none of them a day over twelve . |
| 12 | Most of the shades hung crookedly and were scorched on one side , and she said the tinsel constituted an added fire hazard . |
| 13 | Up in the top shop , the vehicle bodies , usually charabancs , carrier 's buses or delivery vehicles were constructed on two six-inch by four inch baulks of timber . |
| 14 | All urine samples were analysed on one occasion . |
| 15 | He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 . |
| 16 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 17 | He was propped on one elbow beside her , the width of the picnic hamper giving her an illusion of safety from too close an intimacy . |
| 18 | The head , which he judged to weigh just over two pounds , was blackened on one side with congealed blood from which one or two coarse grey hairs sprouted like whiskers . |
| 19 | His fair hair was parted on one side , and a lock of it fell across his forehead . |
| 20 | Cameron was resolved on one thing . |
| 21 | Ice was forming on Three Island Pond . |
| 22 | A slender man with a wisp of grey beard and an air of pleasant idleness was lying on one elbow beside a yew . |
| 23 | When the train had stopped , it was found that the child 's body was lying on one side of the rails but his head had been completely severed from the body . |
| 24 | The biggest specimen was landed on two size 8 trebles to 12 lb line . |
| 25 | Three types of event are postulated : local gene duplications , which formed a cluster of related ZNF genes , A , B and C , after sequence divergence ; a locus duplication , whereby at least part of the cluster of ZNF genes was duplicated on one chromosome arm ( portrayed as genes B and C giving rise to their counterparts B' and C' ) ; and finally a pericentric inversion which separated the duplicated clusters , positioning them on opposite sides of the centromere . |
| 26 | No consensus was reached on G-24 aid to the Soviet Union , which was particularly opposed by the United States Secretary of State James Baker . |
| 27 | A relatively thin piece of cardboard — more like thick paper , really — was coated on one side with a material called ‘ Durium ’ . |
| 28 | In contrast to Guinness I , Ward 's trial lasted just six weeks and was based on one charge . |
| 29 | The FoE study , published in October 1985 as The Final Report : Tree Dieback Survey , was based on 1,638 beech trees and 1,546 yews at over 700 sites . |
| 30 | It was played on two radio stations , but there was no surrender . |