Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in California , I was told that the site of San Quentin prison was determined by the fact that a leased prison hulk was inadequately tethered on the north-east side of San Francisco Bay . |
| 2 | We were all turning gently to port as I cut the corner and was slowly closing on the Hun . |
| 3 | I found that I was mostly focused on the leader 's chest , where the blue cloth was more taut , stretched by the magnificent swelling mounds beneath it . |
| 4 | Appraisal drilling was successfully undertaken on the MacCulloch field and three wells in operated block 16/12a progressed the appraisal of the South Birch and Pine fields . |
| 5 | OSF says the Informix Wingz spreadsheet has been ported to its Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology and was successfully installed on an IBM RS/6000 : a DEC Alpha version will follow . |
| 6 | The upgraded system was successfully used on a cable-route survey across the Irish Sea for a commercial client . |
| 7 | But it has happened , most recently under Stalin in December 1947 , when all cash in the possession of individuals above a maximum of 3,000 roubles was forcibly exchanged on a 10-for-one basis . |
| 8 | The investment was eventually approved on the basis that it would be possible to vary products quickly over six different types . |
| 9 | Although the Welsh Office commissioned some elementary research , we were disappointed the licence was eventually approved on the basis it could be revoked if observable environmental damage was caused . |
| 10 | He also had a singing part — he had to sing ‘ Do n't Blame Me ’ — which was eventually left on the cutting room floor , along with about twenty minutes of Nicholson 's spoken dialogue . |
| 11 | I finished by playing Isabella in a production of Women Beware Women in a 1950 's style which may have helped when I came to my Ophelia , which was loosely based on a Princess Di concept . |
| 12 | Then the hero 's ghastly disease was loosely based on the Ramsey Street saga of Bev 's car crash and coma . |
| 13 | A crest of wavy , blond hair was loosely rooted on a magisterial forehead . |
| 14 | During the day a Beaufighter ( T3294 ) was badly damaged on the ground at Luqa and was subsequently written-off ; a further eight were slightly damaged during the same raid . |
| 15 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 16 | The failure of the meeting was widely blamed on the reported refusal of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates , two of the main over-producers , to offer production cuts . |
| 17 | The Divisional Court held that he was properly convicted on the ground that the police officer had reasonable grounds for anticipating that a breach of the peace was a real possibility . |
| 18 | It was personally served on the president at the Lugano address by an agent of the plaintiffs . |
| 19 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 20 | The words were going into Charity 's brain but she was n't really registering them , her focus was so concentrated on the rhythm of the CPR . |
| 21 | The King 's actions in August 1931 are sometimes defended with the argument that he was merely acting on the advice of the party leaders . |
| 22 | ‘ If you 'd really wanted to hurt me , you 'd have let Ash go ahead with the publicity , would have backed him up , and I would n't have been able to deny it because it was all based on the truth , but a twisted truth ! |
| 23 | This was all to change on a pleasant spring day in 1947 . |
| 24 | It was all centred on a man who was now dead , a man who had cast her aside long ago . |
| 25 | She was enjoying the effect she was obviously having on the local population . |
| 26 | He could hear shouting up ahead ; and there was a large gathering of people around a man who was obviously standing on a box of some kind . |
| 27 | The angular shape was obviously modelled on the front half of a mining ship , but modelled by a madman with no sense of proportion . |
| 28 | His little grand-daughter Francesca , born a month after he was struck down , was gently laid on the bed next to him so he could feel her against him . |
| 29 | She was entirely concentrated on the curved grip of her hands on his loins , and the rhythmic swing of her body as she leaned and relaxed , forcing the water out of him and dragging the air into him . |
| 30 | The British raiders had the race to themselves from the final turn as Jodami overhauled his chief rival in an exciting duel that was only decided on the line . |