Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 2 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 3 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 4 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 5 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 6 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 7 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 8 | But they did not want change and the link to be forged if it were to lead on to wild and radical measures for democracy , equality , and a social revolution that would threaten their larger position of power within the developing economy . |
| 9 | Each of the items , specially written for the project or adapted from APU practical tasks were written on to separate sheets and put in position along with pupil answer sheets and the apparatus for the task . |
| 10 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
| 11 | Most patients ( n=123 ) were operated on for presumed ulcerative colitis but 10 ( 8% ) are now known to have Crohn 's disease and a further 10 ( 8% ) have certain features of Crohn 's disease and have been labelled indeterminate colitis . |
| 12 | For the last six hours , the girls were operated on in separate theatres . |
| 13 | These elements were acted on by two forces : gravity , the tendency for earth and water to sink , and levity , the tendency for air and fire to rise . |
| 14 | By hook or by crook crews , competent or not , were got on to striking ships , by force if by no other method ; and the union men retorted in kind . |
| 15 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 16 | you were going on about that |
| 17 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 18 | But even as preparations were being made to fly them home , talks were going on with independent schools all over England in the hope of finding them free places.Andrew Auster is one of the organizers of the scheme … and he 'll be taking some of the orphans at the Downs School in Colwall : |
| 19 | It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods . |
| 20 | People would still be living here who had been in residence since before the war and were holding on to controlled tenancies until dislodged by offers of cash or other accommodation , but they would not be there much longer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Youngsters falling out was one thing , but just as worrying were reports that some of the more mature boys and girls were getting on with each other just a little too well . |
| 23 | ‘ We were getting on for ten when we liked it , ’ Finch said . |
| 24 | And they were egged on by some Labour MPs and councillors who refused to comply with the law themselves . |
| 25 | While the numbers of young people had dropped as the overall population grew older , in County Durham , 50% of over 16s were staying on at sixth forms or colleges such as his . |
| 26 | All his talents were called on on such a day — his powers of calculation , of decision-making , of patience , of amiability , of firmness and above all of steering his excellently stocked , freshly painted and cleaned up vessel of an inn through the increasingly unpredictable currents of the day . |
| 27 | The floods were brought on by three days of continuous torrential rains in the north which had begun on Sept. 8 , and spread quickly through parts of the Punjab and Sind , threatening sites of historic interest , engulfing thousands of villages and inundating vast acres of cropland . |
| 28 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 29 | We were spurred on by great support |
| 30 | It was our second chance and we were spurred on by some great support . |