Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 2 | ONCE upon a time , whether you produced pots that were thrown on a wheel or hand-made and slab-sided , there were only a limited number of variables . |
| 3 | Opinionated and didactic , it was still a valid essay that was warranted on a group of the ever-growing stature of The Wedding Present . |
| 4 | In 1991 the average that was spent on a gold wedding ring was £119 by the bride and £104 by the groom . |
| 5 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 6 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 7 | The British version of the programme ( smoking and me ) became available in 1987 and was based on a series of five lessons intended for secondary school pupils aged 12–13 . |
| 8 | The method used to carry out a formal analysis of the hypothesis that there is no raised incidence of cancer among young persons aged 0–24 was the same as that in the Black report and was based on a comparison with the national rates for England and Wales summarised in table II . |
| 9 | Membership was determined by invitation through either the senior teacher or the librarian , and was based on a desire to create a body in which a variety of subjects and levels of seniority were combined . |
| 10 | This project was funded by the CNAA in 1988 and was based on a study of all entrants to 25 degree programmes who had originally begun their undergraduate courses in either 1984 ( 4 year degrees ) or 1985 ( 3 year degrees ) . |
| 11 | When my master found me I had dismounted and was squatting on a patch of snow , busily emptying the contents of my stomach . |
| 12 | He had got down from the table half-way through tea and was sitting on a chair in the doorway , looking droopy and listless . |
| 13 | Then , on Sunday evening , the pilot 's employers telephoned to say their pilot had fully recovered and was going on a course the next day in London . |
| 14 | He was on duty when his wife-to-be left her military hospital and was put on a troopship for home . |
| 15 | I was late once , got there at ten instead of half past and was put on a discipline charge by the superintendent . |
| 16 | Another Kurd who was with him , Halil Guzel , won no reprieve and was put on a flight to Istanbul . |
| 17 | He started to try to say that he could not breathe and was put on a ventilator . ’ |