Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this subject could well come up again during the current academic year , the pages were downloaded on to disk , so that they could be consulted off-line without incurring further expense . |
| 2 | When patterns were pencilled on by hand , good workwomen could earn £2 a week , although most received much less . |
| 3 | They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury . |
| 4 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 5 | Judy Little , human resources director of Longman and chairwoman of the Publishing Qualifications Board , announced that increasing numbers of publishers were signing on for NVQs . |
| 6 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 7 | All the Victorian fry were grown on in tanks with a pH of only 7.4 . |
| 8 | There were few records kept , and those were transferred on to tape by the Americans years ago . |
| 9 | Patients who were operated on between midnight and 6 am also had an increased rate of unnecessary operations ( 39/125 , 31% ) . |
| 10 | She tried to ignore the fact that inside her head two entirely different conversations were going on about Ace , and this dress neatly encapsulated one of them . |
| 11 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 12 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 13 | A Canadian Forces official said all 130 passengers and crew were going on to Chicago , and no arrests had been made . |
| 14 | Yet even as these deliberations were going on in Washington , a new Sino-American crisis had developed in the Far East . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Almost equally ambitious development projects were going on in Kenya at about the same time . |
| 18 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 19 | Henry continued , ‘ The riots here followed those in neighbouring counties , of which our people had heard rumours , as if those rioters had been able to overpower the gentry and as if large masses of men were moving on from London , to aid them in forcing their masters to give higher wages . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The southern colonies did not contribute much to the war in America and though they were called on to help , there was no co-ordinated organization for strategy . |
| 22 | After the strike , however , they were called on to return to their ‘ service role ’ for the miners , and they faced difficulties sustaining both their solidarity and their ability to build on their new-found strength ( see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 23 | In the absence of a well-organized party machine , it was his friends and colleagues who were called on to turn out for hurriedly organized demonstrations . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Porn films were brought on to wards and there were allegations of patients being sexually abused . |
| 26 | It 's believed the problems were brought on by wear on tear . |
| 27 | Hampers were laid on for picnics , parcels of treats supplied for midnight romps in Swiss Alpine dorms , and no child 's insatiable hunger went unsatisfied . |
| 28 | The research data were entered on to computer for analysis with the SPSS package and the management of each patient was compared with published recommended guidelines for adults or children . |
| 29 | The pupils ' details were entered on to disk , each pupil was assigned a unique number and bar-codes were produced . |
| 30 | In consequence , certain aspects of the Tammuz story were grafted on to Jesus 's biography . |