Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were displayed on the Eton flag and stamped on school documents . |
| 2 | Both say they were convicted on the basis of fabricated confessions . |
| 3 | They were seated on the far side , some in chairs , some leaning on the desk . |
| 4 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 5 | They were fed on a diet of live baby brine shrimp and grindal worm twice a day and a large partial water change was done each week . |
| 6 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 7 | After a few moments he realized they were flying on an interception course . |
| 8 | As such , they were based on a loose holding-company structure which had not entailed thoroughgoing internal reorganisation . |
| 9 | On March 20 the Indian authorities rejected Pakistani government charges of human rights violations , claiming that they were based on a " terrorist disinformation campaign " ; the most dramatic allegation related to the mass rape on Feb. 23 of 30-60 women and girls when 800 troops of the 4th Rajput Rifles had sealed off the village of Kunan Poshpura . |
| 10 | First they were based on an ‘ Age Participation Rate ’ ( APR ) defined as ‘ the number of young home initial full time and sandwich entrants to HE in a given year expressed as a percentage of the 18 year old population ’ . |
| 11 | When these pictures were issued they were indeed contemporary because they were based on the evils of the day . |
| 12 | They were based on the active ingredients norfloxacin ( 7 ) , enoxacin ( 8 ) or ofloxacin ( 9 ) . |
| 13 | In the provinces of the empire , however , there was no choice of magistrates : the provincial governor ( or a deputy appointed by him ) heard all cases , whether they were based on the civil law or not ; and we can hardly expect that he switched from one procedure to another according to which kind of case he was hearing . |
| 14 | Created in Walworth Road , they were based on the assumption that it is possible to bribe one set of electors with money extracted from the pockets of another set . |
| 15 | One must beware especially of solutions that are presented as if they were based on the results of rigorous experimental tests and bear the stamp of proof . |
| 16 | And when she and two other women employees refused , they were fired on the spot . |
| 17 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 18 | Well , they were perching on the erm chimneys of that one and then they 've been coming they 're gon na be swooping round up not actually low but above it , about fly to the bathroom then spread up , turning a circle , coming down and going past my window and land |
| 19 | They were gathering on the Strip , in the coffee houses like the Unicorn , Mac 's , Luan 's and the Renaissance . |
| 20 | Still , you see if they 're coming from somewhere like Southampton or wherever they might have come , maybe they were delayed on the journey and er So we went and had our half hour lunch . |
| 21 | In this they were followed on a much smaller scale by unit trusts and on a very small scale by investment trusts . |
| 22 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 23 | They were calling on the Government to replace millions of pounds , plundered by Maxwell from pension funds . |
| 24 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 25 | Although it was murky , she felt she could almost pick out the silhouettes of other buildings up there , as if they were constructed on the inside of the dome itself . |
| 26 | They were painted on the walls of many private houses whether the occupants wanted them there or not . |
| 27 | There can be little doubt that Hitler 's conquests were ideologically bankrupt , but they were built on a profound understanding and wilful exploitation of German fears and ambitions . |
| 28 | The ideas of the phrenologists contained much sound common sense even though they were built on the false premise that bumps on the skull are a key to personality . |
| 29 | ‘ It got to the point where they were jumping on the bonnet and it would have been a matter of time before they ran over my roof . ’ |
| 30 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |