Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this subject could well come up again during the current academic year , the pages were downloaded on to disk , so that they could be consulted off-line without incurring further expense . |
| 2 | When patterns were pencilled on by hand , good workwomen could earn £2 a week , although most received much less . |
| 3 | They did not believe us , and were carried on to Banbury . |
| 4 | Two main lines were carried on by Richard Chaloner , cooper , and George , the youngest son who inherited the cottage and smithy that his father had erected on a piece of waste land east of the church , together with the lease of 3 acres of land enclosed from Myddlewood . |
| 5 | There was something wrong with the ballcock , and if both taps were turned on to capacity at the same time there was an overflow outside . |
| 6 | All the Victorian fry were grown on in tanks with a pH of only 7.4 . |
| 7 | There were few records kept , and those were transferred on to tape by the Americans years ago . |
| 8 | Patients who were operated on between midnight and 6 am also had an increased rate of unnecessary operations ( 39/125 , 31% ) . |
| 9 | The southern colonies did not contribute much to the war in America and though they were called on to help , there was no co-ordinated organization for strategy . |
| 10 | After the strike , however , they were called on to return to their ‘ service role ’ for the miners , and they faced difficulties sustaining both their solidarity and their ability to build on their new-found strength ( see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | In the absence of a well-organized party machine , it was his friends and colleagues who were called on to turn out for hurriedly organized demonstrations . |
| 12 | Porn films were brought on to wards and there were allegations of patients being sexually abused . |
| 13 | It 's believed the problems were brought on by wear on tear . |
| 14 | Hampers were laid on for picnics , parcels of treats supplied for midnight romps in Swiss Alpine dorms , and no child 's insatiable hunger went unsatisfied . |
| 15 | The research data were entered on to computer for analysis with the SPSS package and the management of each patient was compared with published recommended guidelines for adults or children . |
| 16 | The pupils ' details were entered on to disk , each pupil was assigned a unique number and bar-codes were produced . |
| 17 | In consequence , certain aspects of the Tammuz story were grafted on to Jesus 's biography . |
| 18 | Life at Lille was easy and completely noneventful ; it was only a recruiting post used for clearing volunteers before they were despatched on to Paris . |
| 19 | In contrast , two experienced chemists — Fred Field and William Spiller — were taken on at Locksfields , and had set about extending the firm 's list of dye products . |
| 20 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 21 | Not all the Redmond employees were taken on by Sigma . |
| 22 | Three senior ministers departed from economic posts , notably the Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Denis Bra Kanon , whose responsibilities were taken on by Water and Forest Resources Minister Vincent Pierre Lokrou , a Cabinet member since 1986 . |
| 23 | The Education and Religious Affairs portfolios were taken on by Giorgios Souflias , hitherto the Economy and Tourism Minister ; the Prime Minister , Konstantinos Mitsotakis , took over the Economy portfolio , while Yannis Kefaloyannis was appointed Tourism Minister . |
| 24 | These and their white peers were taken on in times of expansion . |
| 25 | A little later , shows were put on at village fairs and halls by travelling showmen . |
| 26 | Extra buses were put on to cope with the increase in numbers ; the school restaurant overflowed and three new cafés opened near by in the Camberwell Road . |
| 27 | Erm most have , in fact most of which is er b er seventy four additional heads were put on in March , so we 've gone from seventeen twenty three to seventeen ninety seven erm and Mick accounted for most of those with forty four . |
| 28 | By 1987 , although the cost of producing school books was still subsidized , the distribution costs were passed on to parents . |
| 29 | He has the distinction of being among the very first in the country to ‘ do Koi properly ’ , and his 25 years ' experience were passed on to Ken at meetings of the local section of the BKKS . |
| 30 | For instance , shipping conferences or consortia are not intrinsically anticompetitive , but would only get EC clearance if member firms still had to compete with independent lines on any given route and if the cost savings and other spin-offs from collaboration were passed on to clients and consumers . |