Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station .
2 One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles .
3 He said the taxi was stopped on the underdeck of Craigavon Bridge and four men , including the three accused , were arrested .
4 Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane .
5 They were awarded a penalty try when winger Carl Knight was stopped on the line by a very high tackle , and then the pack gave Osborne a pushover try .
6 My patience is draining like water from a colander , but the guy called Malcolm appears at her side so fast you 'd think he was joined on a spring .
7 Just as Paul Gascoigne was overcome with emotion at England 's World Cup exit in Italia '90 , Cantona could n't hold back the tears when he was joined on the chat show sofa … by his grandmother .
8 The 40-year-old veteran , now competing for London club Haringey , was joined on the rostrum by Bedlington policeman Paul Reed , who took the discus bronze medal with 50.70 metres and silver in the shot with a putt of 15.14 metres .
9 The Maclean coat of arms was repainted on the funeral banners and his shield .
10 THEORY OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION — It was formulated on the basis of population trends experienced during the period of transition from agrarian to industrialized economy in countries that are now economically developed .
11 Temple design differed from the Greek pattern in that the building was erected on a podium with front approach steps .
12 A totally enclosed Siwertell archimedean screw ship unloader was erected on the North Side of Imperial Dock for the dust free discharge of bulk cargoes .
13 However , this does not provide sufficient accommodation , so a high two-storey wing was erected on the west boundary and was linked across to the eastern range by a short ‘ spinal ’ block , creating two courtyards following completion of the church , for the erection of the school preceded construction of the church by two years .
14 Not just for Paris either : on the evening of April 6th a huge screen was erected on the Place de la Bastille ; as was one on the Place Bellecour in Lyon , the Place du Capitole in Toulouse and in tiny Aubagne too ( apparently Marseille did not want to pay the 180,000 Francs demanded for the relay , nor could they find anywhere sufficiently large or quiet ) .
15 A school-room of brick construction was erected on the site of the ancient building in 1862 .
16 Following demolition , a memorial hall , named after the late member was erected on the site .
17 It was erected on the site of ancient fortifications dating from about 500 B.C. When it was built , the castle was at least fifty percent higher than the ruined portion still standing , and was complete with turrets , battlements and curtain walls .
18 The tower was demolished by lightning in 1821 and since the present Abbey clock tower was erected on the site in 1822 the papingo has been placed there for every contest .
19 The palace was destroyed after Nero 's death to make way for later Imperial building and the Colosseum was erected on the site of its lake .
20 Subsequently , a munitions factory was erected on the Croydon side of the aerodrome , with both railway and tramway sidings leading into its yard .
21 A regulator 's box was erected on the corner of Croydon Road and Elmers End Road opposite the Robin Hood , in the front garden of No. 103 Croydon Road in accordance with an Agreement reached with Mr. S. G. Gee , the owner of the property , on 16 May 1918 , for £5 per annum .
22 When the perinatal mortality rate was calculated on the basis of the hospital attended at the start of labour the crude perinatal mortality rate in hospital 1 ( 12.6/ 1000 deliveries ) was a third higher than that in hospital 3 ( 9.4/1000 deliveries ) .
23 The Jets mounted a final drive which was halted on the Los Angeles 15-yard line with nine seconds left to play .
24 And , although he was halted on the line , Cambridge retained possession , Flood sending Richard Batstone hurtling in on the left for a try that Davies converted .
25 Everyone seems to enjoy loud bangs , so during a lesson on trip flares attention was riveted on the NCO teaching the correct precautions against triggering a trip wire .
26 The harbour at this time was formed on the bed of the ‘ Water to Leith ’ , a small stream with its source in the Pentland Hills and flowing for thirteen miles or so through Edinburgh and Leith into the Firth of Forth at this point .
27 The Group was formed on the initiative of Financial Public Relations Ltd and is chaired by ex-MP Sir Robin Chichester-Clark of head-hunters The Welbeck Group .
28 This does not mean that nothing was bought and sold in the independent sector , still less that the agricultural producers in it were self-sufficient , though it is probable that a rather high proportion of peasant agriculture was consumed on the peasant holding , or within the narrow limits of a local system of exchange , if only because the food demands of the small cities in so many areas could be supplied from within a radius of little more than one or two dozen miles .
29 Net profits climbed from $3m in 1983 , when the firm was floated on the stockmarket , to $455m in 1990 .
30 Who would have guessed then that six months later their shares would be worth £4.2m when the company was floated on the stockmarket ?
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