Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already , statistics were catching up on them . |
| 2 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 3 | They visited WGPT 's Forties Road premises where presentations were given by on Production Services and on the Company 's Permanent Downhole readout instrumentation [ PDR ] . |
| 4 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 5 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 6 | Negotiations between the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38849 for leaderships ] under the auspices of the EC continued in Lisbon , but were broken off on May 2 when the ceasefire was broken . |
| 7 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 8 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 9 | Words like freedom and rights were bandied around on both sides . |
| 10 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 11 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 12 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 13 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 14 | Briefly , cryostat sections were picked up on poly-L-lysone-coated slides and dried at 37°C for 2 h . |
| 15 | The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target . |
| 16 | She was employed by the parish for twelve hours a week and her nominal duties were to come in on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays , clean the flat , wash and spin dry any linen or articles in the soiled linen basket , and prepare and leave for him a simple lunch on a tray . |
| 17 | In 1907 it had been noted that nickelodeons were opening up on every American street and it was not hard to account for their success . |
| 18 | Although similar requisitions were carried out on treasures in museums , it did seem that the state had finally decided to test the power of the Orthodox Church on a socially explosive question . |
| 19 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 20 | Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction . |
| 21 | For example , the uninformed reader will almost certainly conclude that Herbert Needleman 's neuropsychological tests were carried out on not just 158 children but on all 2000 children in the study . |
| 22 | In addition to numerous small enquiries related to the war effort , major investigations were carried out on projects such as the proposed Mid-Scotland Ship Canal and suitable sites for hydroelectric schemes . |
| 23 | Several trial runs were carried out on Anerley Hill , to test the special anti-run-back brakes , with which they were fitted , using trolleybus No. 65 , which was purposely dewired several times on the hill to make sure that the brake really worked and for the benefit of the press . |
| 24 | Very few modifications were carried out on these cars while in the ownership of Croydon Corporation . |
| 25 | At Pearl Harbor itself exactly at 0800hrs morning colours were carried out on the moored ships , the first wave of enemy aircraft was sighted but not suspected . |
| 26 | ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification . |
| 27 | Nuclear microscopical investigations using unstained tissue were carried out on more than 80 plaque cores from the temporal cortex and hippocampus of four cases of AD and two aged controls . |
| 28 | The tests were based on European Standards , adapted to conditions in the home , and were carried out on Maples ' 100% nylon twist-pile carpet and on tiled flooring . |
| 29 | EMSAs were carried out on nuclear extracts of non transfected Hep3B cells ( END ) in the presence ( + ) or absence ( - ) of IL-6 , and on nuclear extracts of uninduced Hep3B cells transfected with C/EBPδ . |
| 30 | EMSA were carried out on nuclear extracts from Hep3B cells stimulated for various time intervals with IL-6 in the absence ( - ) or presence ( + ) of 10 µg/ml. of cycloheximide ( CHX ) . |