Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the test the boiling times and fuel-life figures for each stove were taken on a mild summer 's day with only a light breeze . |
| 2 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 3 | At a school in Kent pupils beginning Key Stage 2 were taken on an exploratory tour of a certain street . |
| 4 | The readings were taken on the right arm of the seated subject after a minimum of 10 minutes ' rest . |
| 5 | MAJOR-GENERAL Michael Skinner , who has died aged 60 , was Director General , Weapons , from 1986 to 1988 , when many important decisions were taken on the future equipment of the Army . |
| 6 | It was , however , one of the legacies of the constitutional struggle of the seventeenth century that the rules of succession to the Crown were put on a firm , statutory basis and the statutory rules prescribed have since functioned uncontroversially subject only to one or two possible minor exceptions . |
| 7 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 8 | as if a finger were put on the naked soul ! |
| 9 | Two sovereigns of equal authority in their respective kingdoms were put on an unequal footing because one of those sovereigns held land from the other . |
| 10 | The coffin was carried on a horse-drawn cart because it was a long time before a motor hearse became available . |
| 11 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 12 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 13 | The woman was taken on a terrifying 45-minute journey in another car into the countryside before the gunman committed what police described as a ‘ serious sexual assault ’ . |
| 14 | The woman was taken on a terrifying 45-minute journey in another car into the countryside before the gunman committed what police described as a ‘ serious sexual assault ’ at an unknown location . |
| 15 | The photograph was taken on a favourable day or it could not have been taken at all . |
| 16 | He was taken on the indispensable visit to Holford Glen , and it was there , seated by the side of the brook , that the brief exchange took place which Coleridge was still repeating in his old age : ‘ Citizen John , ’ Coleridge remarked , ‘ this is a fine place to talk treason in ! ’ |
| 17 | The above shot was taken on the 18th while the aircraft flew for Dutch TV . |
| 18 | In such petty ways some revenge was taken on the wealthy transient . |
| 19 | In a criminal hearing last August , Dale was put on a good behaviour bond over the incident . |
| 20 | From March 1859 it was clear that , when the empire 's local government was put on a new footing , people other than bureaucrats would be participating in it . |
| 21 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 22 | The mention of a sinus problem suggested a possible allergy and he was put on a simple allergy-exclusion diet consisting of lamb , pears and water for five days . |
| 23 | First of all he was put on a yeast-free , sugar-free diet and treated with essential oils of garlic , tea-tree and thyme . |
| 24 | This patient was put on a yeast-free diet , and given a second psychiatric assessment when her bowel symptoms had resolved . |
| 25 | After spending the night at an embassy cottage in Kyrenia , he was put on a Turkish Air flight to Istanbul connecting with a Lukhansa flight to Frankfurt . |
| 26 | During his second visit to Great Ormond Street , he was put on a two-week exclusion diet to see if a food allergy might the cause of his condition . |
| 27 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 28 | Mr Winning was put on a life-support machine , but died the following day in hospital . |
| 29 | After the War , this central theory of economics was put on a rigorous footing ( Arrow-Debreu ) . |
| 30 | In 1284 his responsibility for the operations launched a year earlier was put on a permanent footing with the grant of 3s. 0d. a day for life and a future widow 's pension of 1s. 6d. a day for his wife Ambrosia should she survive him . |