Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] on the " 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 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 6 | When these pictures were issued they were indeed contemporary because they were based on the evils of the day . |
| 7 | They were based on the active ingredients norfloxacin ( 7 ) , enoxacin ( 8 ) or ofloxacin ( 9 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And when she and two other women employees refused , they were fired on the spot . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | They were gathering on the Strip , in the coffee houses like the Unicorn , Mac 's , Luan 's and the Renaissance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They were calling on the Government to replace millions of pounds , plundered by Maxwell from pension funds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They were painted on the walls of many private houses whether the occupants wanted them there or not . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And they were situated on the dock ? |
| 24 | Work began on two new , larger , masonry granaries , although they were situated on the same site . |
| 25 | They were given on the express condition that they will never be played . |
| 26 | As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures . |
| 27 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 28 | I found it odd that they were building on the most exposed and inconvenient site on the hill , though the view was no doubt prodigious . |
| 29 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 30 | My father was not going with the doctor because the operation would have much less chance of success if they were stopped on the way . |