Example sentences of "was done on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How did Lord Wittisham happen to have atropine with him , if it was done on the spur of the moment ? ’ |
| 2 | Most turnpiking was done on the north to south roads , although some cross-country in-filling occurred later ; they were less new roads than improvements on old ones , designed particularly to ease the movements of goods and the aristocracy to their country estates . |
| 3 | Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century . |
| 4 | It was done on the receivers orders to stop disgruntled workers taking demonstration vehicles from the site . |
| 5 | If a messenger be sent by the Lord Chief Justice in Eyre to take into custody some of the most substantial , as was done on the return of King Charles the Second , it may prevent further destruction . |
| 6 | That work was done on the nickels of a string of major investors led by IBM Corp , which is thought to have lost between $100m and $200m on the failed venture — but Chen 's announcement that his new company , Supercomputers International Inc , will draw on work done by the failed one raises the question of who owns that work . |
| 7 | If a text needed to be amended , or comment made on it , this was done on the file itself , either on the relevant paper within the file or on a note attached to it . |
| 8 | As testing was done on the basis of parental choice these infants would not be screened . |
| 9 | That was done on the basis of professional advice . |
| 10 | However , it must be recognised that such claims for compensation would involve an extension of Francovich , both because that was a case of complete non-implementation , not just defective implementation , and because the UK government could argue that its implementation of the Directive in 1981 was done on the basis of its good faith understanding of what European law then required and so there was no element of fault in its decision-making at that time . |
| 11 | And going back to the taking of the bread to the erm er bakehouse erm if there was a fire going they did n't do that , because they were baked in the oven , but in the summertime we did it more often than in the winter , because if there was no fire you see , there was no gas cooker or anything like that , all the cooking was done on the coal fire and the oven at the side of it . |
| 12 | A check was done on the pH and a proprietary acid buffer was added to bring it down to 6.5 Softening resin was added in a box filter to bring down the hardness to 8°DGH . |
| 13 | The system was complicated by the introduction at a late stage of a further provision enabling federal states to designate more than one Central Authority ; this was done on the suggestion of the German Federal Republic ( which had previously resisted the British proposal as tending to multiply Central Authorities ) to enable expression to be given to the sovereignty of the German Länder in the field of justice , and does require the applicant to identify the Land in question . |