Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 2 | Words like freedom and rights were bandied around on both sides . |
| 3 | Briefly , cryostat sections were picked up on poly-L-lysone-coated slides and dried at 37°C for 2 h . |
| 4 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 5 | In addition , 12 Merchant Ships were built and repairs and refits were carried out on 370 naval vessels and 2437 merchant vessels during the period 1939 – 45 . |
| 6 | Studies were carried out on 10 healthy normal control subjects , ( six men , four women , age range 28–72 years ) five patients with benign gastric ulcer ( three women , two men , age range 42–81 years ) , and 10 patients ( seven men , three women , age range 44–73 years ) who had persistent pain ( >3 months ) after vagotomy and pyloroplasty , vagotomy and antrectomy , vagotomy and gastroenterostomy , or Bilroth 1 gastrectomy . |
| 7 | EMSAs were carried out on nuclear extracts of non transfected Hep3B cells ( END ) in the presence ( + ) or absence ( - ) of IL-6 , and on nuclear extracts of uninduced Hep3B cells transfected with C/EBPδ . |
| 8 | EMSA were carried out on nuclear extracts from Hep3B cells stimulated for various time intervals with IL-6 in the absence ( - ) or presence ( + ) of 10 µg/ml. of cycloheximide ( CHX ) . |
| 9 | Very few modifications were carried out on these cars while in the ownership of Croydon Corporation . |
| 10 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 11 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big -ENG roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 12 | The barrels were washed up on Turkish beaches later the same year . |
| 13 | That was the approach of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Birmingham City Council , Ex parte Ferrero Ltd. ( 1991 ) 89 L.G.R. 977 where the judgments were handed down on 23 May 1991 . |
| 14 | That was the approach of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Birmingham City Council , Ex parte Ferrero Ltd. ( 1991 ) 89 L.G.R. 977 where the judgments were handed down on 23 May 1991 . |
| 15 | Key parties of about ten of all ranks from each Company , were called up on 24 August . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Apples of many shades of yellow and red , brown and gold were laid out on yellowed newspaper , line after line , row upon row , on broad slatted shelves . |
| 18 | Jewelled cups , their precious stones glinting in the sunlight , and silver dishes were laid out on handsome chests and cabinets . |
| 19 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 20 | In it coins and medals were set out on faded velvet pads and , at the back , there were cards of stamps displayed under amber polythene to protect them from the light . |
| 21 | And , though Tito 's slogan of ‘ Unity and Brotherhood ’ implied a lid on national — Serb or Croat — feeling , state jobs were dished out on national lines . |
| 22 | Suppose coal were run down on short-term profit calculations , how did any private or public organisation running the railways cope with the consequences to freight ? |
| 23 | The site offices were taken off on 18 November . |
| 24 | Food was short , and resupplying the Company put the ships at even greater risk than in the previous month : as a result the platoons were taken out on 9–10 January 1943 , leaving only a small party under Lieutenant Henry Flood to gather information . |
| 25 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 26 | Eight-year old Jack Spier and his friends were allowed out on special travel cards . |
| 27 | According to Volodymyr Yavorivsky , the head of the commission , automatic safety systems were switched off on three occasions in the past year ( reputedly in order to boost power production ) . |
| 28 | In mid-June 1940 , when the Nazis were sweeping through Belgium , we were sent out on one occasion to find a very large wooded area near Rotterdam . |
| 29 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 30 | Amid protest marches and demonstrations , over a period of weeks some two dozen lorries carrying live animal imports were held up on French roads and in a few cases the animals were slaughtered or burned alive . |