Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data were downloaded on to magnetic tape for long term storage . |
| 2 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 3 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 4 | Negotiations were carried on in secret and the results were presented to shareholders as a fait accompli . |
| 5 | Each of the items , specially written for the project or adapted from APU practical tasks were written on to separate sheets and put in position along with pupil answer sheets and the apparatus for the task . |
| 6 | Most patients ( n=123 ) were operated on for presumed ulcerative colitis but 10 ( 8% ) are now known to have Crohn 's disease and a further 10 ( 8% ) have certain features of Crohn 's disease and have been labelled indeterminate colitis . |
| 7 | For the last six hours , the girls were operated on in separate theatres . |
| 8 | These elements were acted on by two forces : gravity , the tendency for earth and water to sink , and levity , the tendency for air and fire to rise . |
| 9 | By hook or by crook crews , competent or not , were got on to striking ships , by force if by no other method ; and the union men retorted in kind . |
| 10 | The shares were sold on to Canadian pension funds , but in February Lockwood retrieved them with backing from 3i , in return for a 30 per cent stake . |
| 11 | It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods . |
| 12 | And they were egged on by some Labour MPs and councillors who refused to comply with the law themselves . |
| 13 | All his talents were called on on such a day — his powers of calculation , of decision-making , of patience , of amiability , of firmness and above all of steering his excellently stocked , freshly painted and cleaned up vessel of an inn through the increasingly unpredictable currents of the day . |
| 14 | The floods were brought on by three days of continuous torrential rains in the north which had begun on Sept. 8 , and spread quickly through parts of the Punjab and Sind , threatening sites of historic interest , engulfing thousands of villages and inundating vast acres of cropland . |
| 15 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 16 | We were spurred on by great support |
| 17 | It was our second chance and we were spurred on by some great support . |
| 18 | Any crumbs which fell off the table were pounced on by big bronze lizards — skinks . |
| 19 | The reason must be that since the dispute over women had reached a critical phase by the end of 1909 , very few girl apprentices were taken on after that . |
| 20 | The matter has received our closest and most careful consideration and although the details were worked on in 1886 for another canal in the Manchester district ( but not used ) they are all to all intents and purposes equally applicable to the Grand Union Canal , when that canal is improved , to be of the same working capacity as the Grand Junction Canal and to carry the same vessels . |
| 21 | The watertight skin and deck were put on over this closely spaced framework of ribs and beams in the form of planks , nearly as thick as they were wide , which ran longitudinally at right-angles to the ribs . |
| 22 | Remote and isolated , the quarries were remarked on by many an unbelieving traveller in this region which Defoe called ‘ the wildest , most barren and frightful of any that I have passed over in England … |
| 23 | The range and richness of sport as a component of popular culture has been overlooked by those who take a ‘ diffusionist ’ view , concentrating on how middle-class games and values were passed on to industrial workers via muscular Christians and social reformers . |
| 24 | Sir Peter , the first of the bank chiefs called to the Treasury to explain their policy , dismissed the allegations , telling the chancellor base rate cuts were passed on to 98 per cent of business customers . |
| 25 | It seems certain that hidden teachings on sacred geometry — form , shape , proportion , number , measure and materials — were passed on into Christian times and were incorporated into much church architecture , including the great cathedrals . |
| 26 | Different lessons were passed on by other grandparents . |
| 27 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 28 | ‘ When the group of witnesses rushed to pull those injured from under the wheels of the armoured personnel carrier , they were fired on by automatic weapons . ’ |
| 29 | But the Hercules was locked-on to again and , as it was manoeuvring , the crew believe they were fired on by anti-aircraft shells . |
| 30 | They were in a tank like this when they were fired on by American A10 tankbusters . |