Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were getting on late and I says and er were there , oh we 'll walk you home Sarah said alright then says come on let's go through woods . |
| 2 | It was dented on one side . |
| 3 | Whether it was approved or not — and usually it was not — it was understood on all sides that democracy meant , to a lesser or greater degree , popular power , popular sovereignty , popular participation . |
| 4 | Traditionally , local government exhibited one of the dysfunctions of bureaucracy mentioned in Chapter 3 — that it was run on departmental lines with departments such as housing , education and public works providing services in isolation from each other . |
| 5 | It was flanked on one side by a great domed hall , supported on a quadrant of megalithic arches , each one at least twelve feet thick ; to its side the palace wall rose upwards with a colossal , almost Romanesque massiveness . |
| 6 | It was played on two radio stations , but there was no surrender . |
| 7 | It was disbanded on 2 April after it six-month life came to an end . |
| 8 | It was mounted on four solid tyred wheels and is believed to have been painted dark blue . |
| 9 | In France the cabinet du ministre in the foreign ministry included from 1886 , under a number of slightly varying titles , a section which translated and analysed articles from the foreign press : by 1907 it was drawing on 175 newspapers for this purpose . |
| 10 | As a consequence , after consultation between King William , Bismarck , Prince Anthony and Leopold , it was announced on 12 July that the candidacy had been withdrawn . |
| 11 | After two further administered rises in rates , it was announced on 25 May 1978 that from then onwards MLR would be a purely administered rate . |
| 12 | It was withdrawn on 18 December 1979 and was cut up at Doncaster on 2 February 1980 . |
| 13 | It was asked on these words whether the lands should be regarded as left by trust . |
| 14 | If there had been no question of acquiescence in this case , these children would have been returned to Australia pursuant to the order of Thorpe J. shortly after it was made on 20 December 1991 . |
| 15 | I have worked for Lothian since it was born on 15 May 1975 and for its predecessor since 1969 . |
| 16 | The following day , the English party left for Barbados and , after lengthy discussions with representatives of the governments of Barbados , Montserrat , Antigua and Jamaica , the other scheduled venues , it was stated on 4 March that the tour would continue . |
| 17 | It was based on certain fundamental beliefs , which were expressed in extreme form , deriving ultimately from certain aspects of nineteenth-century scientific enquiry and social philosophy . |
| 18 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 19 | The American embassy in Seoul analysed current trends within the North Korean Labour Party ( NKLP ) at the beginning of 1950 ; it was based on various embassy records and on interrogations of refugees from North Korea . |
| 20 | Possibly the building industry was one of the most substantial in the country , but as it was based on small local units it is virtually impossible to study . |
| 21 | It was based on numerous small workshops rather than upon the large factories that characterized the Lancashire cotton industry . |
| 22 | As a consequence , the eubacterial rooting previously obtained from ATPase evolution is inconsistent as it was based on phylogenetic trees in which these two paralogous families were mixed in single trees . |
| 23 | The initial distribution between capitation and other expenditure followed an incremental approach as it was based on previous patterns of expenditure . |
| 24 | Cognitio was an official procedure , and a judgment given in it was based on magisterial authority . |
| 25 | Kinnock 's modernisation did not go far enough , as it was based on old-style labourism and single-party arrogance . |
| 26 | The budget package was consistent with those of recent years in that it was based on some fairly optimistic projections concerning the future development of the economy . |
| 27 | Although the graph refers to the full amounts of £1,000/year and £15,000 , it was based on this table . |
| 28 | It was based on vocal chanting and the scales were very micro-tonal , with no octave thing , let alone anything like our own twelve-note scale . |
| 29 | Montesquieu 's own work was not entirely new since it was based on classical models , but it started a growing tradition both in France and in the other main centre of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment , Scotland . |
| 30 | But ‘ Commonwealth preference ’ was still important in the 1960s because it was granted on half the UK 's imports from Commonwealth countries . |