Example sentences of "[n mass] were [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few reindeer were grazing on the sparse tundra . |
| 2 | These data were stored on the large IBM installation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in London , and an " in house " written data base handling language , INFSYS , was used to marshall the data . |
| 3 | For each compound , data were collected on the type of house , possessions , animals , and access to vitamin-A-rich foods . |
| 4 | The aircraft were ranged on the decks before dawn , but on ‘ Furious ’ the first Fulmar failed to start and had to be put below . |
| 5 | Around 2,000 plants worth £200,000 were found on the site at Lower Avenue in Bowers Gifford , near Basildon . |
| 6 | People were gathered on the dock , spilling from a warehouse full of food and drink and fresh air , and thunderous with moth raga . |
| 7 | In a separate appeal issued on the same day to the Lithuanian people Gorbachev said that developments in their republic were causing " extreme concern and bewilderment " throughout the Soviet Union , and that people were calling on the Soviet government to use " economic , political and administrative measures " to defend the USSR Constitution and the country 's integrity . |
| 8 | One time we were on some stunt on the airfield and the people were encroaching on the ground and we were told to push them back . |
| 9 | The report from one such course recently was that , during the film , various people were tapped on the shoulder and asked to leave not only the showing , but also the company . |
| 10 | I have never felt so unhappy in my life as I did on that short airlift to Dibrugarh , leaving Burma almost entirely in the hands of the Japanese , and knowing how many hundreds of people were stranded on the railway line below Myitkyina . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people were arrested on the grounds that they were suspected of rebel activity . |
| 12 | Behind him , people were lolling on the lawns among the neat flower-beds , ignoring |
| 13 | Murray died in 1915 , by which time three more editors and a large staff were engaged on the project . |
| 14 | This last was not such a great risk , because most of the stage staff were needed on the Prompt Side at that point in the play for a forthcoming scene change . |
| 15 | The national press and media were travelling on the plane with Mrs Thatcher , but the local photographers and journalists were going directly to the airport ahead of time . |
| 16 | To replace the depleted vegetation a range of species were planted on the island in the nineteenth century , including the maritime pine ( Pinus pinaster ) and blackwood ( Acacia melanoxylon ) , as well as a variety of herbs and shrubs which have now established specific vegetation zones . |
| 17 | His famous Etruria works were built on the canal and the carriage costs of coal and raw materials from Liverpool , including the vital china clay shipped to the Mersey port from Cornwall , fell to a rate of 13s 4d ( 67p ) per ton compared with the old road carriage rate of £2 10s ( £2.50 ) . |
| 18 | Stations , hotels , and all other railway works were capitalized on the mineral riches which had first attracted the Spanish . |
| 19 | Relatively few scientific works were placed on the Index . |
| 20 | The pair were spawning on the vertical side of their chosen rock facing away from the front of the tank . |