Example sentences of "was [verb] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 2 | Matthew Belsham , of Sale Harriers has been added to England 's Commonwealth Games team , in the pole vault , taking the place of Michael Edwards , who was withdrawn on grounds of misconduct . |
| 3 | Lucy was propped on pillows in the narrow hospital bed , holding the tiny night-gowned bundle in the crook of her arm . |
| 4 | No restriction was placed on schemes supported by UDGs — industrial , commercial , residential , recreational or community-based projects or combinations of these could all be assisted . |
| 5 | However , after 1984 a greater emphasis was placed on schemes designed to boost the physical regeneration of the inner cities . |
| 6 | So the meat was placed on racks and |
| 7 | The casket was placed on trestles before the high altar . |
| 8 | Maids took trays of drinks round , and a great banquet was placed on rows of tables that covered one whole side of the lawn . |
| 9 | Ruddock , however , differed from any of the cases which had gone before in the sense that the issue ‘ has usually been whether the admitted act or decision was justified on grounds of national security ’ . |
| 10 | The research was undertaken on referrals received by the Psychiatric Advisory Service ( PAS ) at the Nuffield Mental Health Centre in a medium sized city of about 240,000 , with a very small ethnic minority population . |
| 11 | In isolating such groups for surveillance and regulation , the profession was drawing on changes within medical discourse . |
| 12 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 13 | In addition , questions were again raised about the criteria used to judge whether or not a bid should be referred — the Guinness bid was referred on grounds of reduced competition , but , again , this allows companies in unrelated industries to make bids unhindered . |
| 14 | In September 1989 in Austin , Texas , Glen Mauldin , an assistant to former senator Chic Hecht ( Republican , Nevada ) was indicted on charges that he used his office to help secure approval of thrift deals in return for payments . |
| 15 | Former LDP Cabinet Minister Toshiyuki Inamura , who served as Director-General of the Environment Agency in 1986-87 , resigned from the party on Dec. 26 , a day before he was indicted on charges of tax evasion . |
| 16 | The eight were all arrested , as was the chairman of Hanbo , Chung Tai Soo , who was indicted on charges which included bribery and misappropriation of funds . |
| 17 | Labour objectors did not change their minds but they feared that the loss of the bills could undermine the future existence of the Government which was depending on Liberals and Welsh and Scottish Nationalists for its survival . |
| 18 | He shaved his face clean and combed his thick unruly hair , then continued to dress , hurriedly now , for she was touching on memories that were precious to him . |
| 19 | As the son and grandson of miners , I was reared on stories of coal and collieries . |
| 20 | The sharp decline was blamed on fears over the falling yen and over-valued stock prices on the Tokyo stock exchange . |
| 21 | An epidemic of venereal disease in London was blamed on soldiers . |
| 22 | The apparent indecision was blamed on difficulties in working out travel arrangements for her to make the return trip to Scotland in one day . |
| 23 | From the word go she was knocking on doors , visiting and sharing the platform ministry every Sunday . |
| 24 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 25 | N. I think Nottingham was designed on Circles . |
| 26 | For twenty years I had trained my mind that when not preoccupied with washing up , searching the window frames for rotting wood or examining my bank statements , it was to work on plots , characters and the general creation of fiction . |
| 27 | Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed . |
| 28 | Its contribution was to concentrate on factors outside of the criminal justice system that control the natural human tendency towards deviance . |
| 29 | Such pluralism as did occur was excused on grounds of the poverty of one or both livings . |
| 30 | James was occupied on lobsters and kidneys , and Algernon , studiously avoiding meat , on vegetables . |