Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all this were laid on with a trowel , the reader 's patience would quickly wear thin . |
| 2 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 3 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 4 | He received about 20 letters from ex-regimental POWs who were in need ; these were passed on to the regiment . |
| 5 | When the messages were decoded they emerged as apparently meaningless blocks of letters , and these were passed on to the linguists in Hut 3 who turned them into intelligible German . |
| 6 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 7 | Morgan v. Palmer , 2 B. & C. 729 , Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 and Hooper v. Exeter Corporation , 56 L.J.Q.B. 457 were founded on by the claimant and Slater v. Burnley Corporation by the respondent . |
| 8 | The story count is high — page three of the winning issue positively buzzed with 11 stories , and eight were crammed on to the back , which is as it should be in a conglomerate all about communication . |
| 9 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 10 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |