Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture can either be given as a present for a ninetieth birthday , or made from some flowers that were presented on the day itself . |
| 2 | Horses for sale were tethered at the sides of them and tack , leather and ironwork were displayed on the tail-gates which were turned into makeshift stalls . |
| 3 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 4 | Federal agents on May 4 raided the four major New York commodity exchanges and escorted four traders off the floor ; subpoenas were served on the exchanges themselves and on dozens of brokers and traders . |
| 5 | Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection . |
| 6 | In this case , population density data for a 1 km buffer on either side of network arcs were overlaid on the network itself so as to act as weights for the minimum path algorithm . |
| 7 | Following the meeting , different views were expressed on the path which the study would follow . |
| 8 | Detailed files were kept on every student which could help determine what sort of assignment they received upon graduation . |
| 9 | The shears were sharpened on a stone which was turned by a wheel , which was itself turned by a handle . |
| 10 | Festivities and worship-rites were held on the top which declined when the new faith arrived . |
| 11 | The cat was placed on a platform which went |
| 12 | A greater burden was placed on the rates which could only be met either by cuts in services or increases in rate demands . |
| 13 | The report suggested that if more liability for the contract was placed on the contractor it might result in a higher tender price , but lower cost increases during the work programme . |
| 14 | That had been strange enough , but stranger yet was a footnote to the file : a footnote that revealed that far from the Aristotle File being the work of Soren Berdichev , as was claimed on the file itself , it had , in fact , been compiled and authored by the boy . |
| 15 | Orcadai 's house was perched on a ledge which overlooked a sheer drop from the city wall to the plain . |
| 16 | If a text needed to be amended , or comment made on it , this was done on the file itself , either on the relevant paper within the file or on a note attached to it . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's amazing that a multi-million pound industry was built on an animal nobody knew anything about , ’ Dr Jones says . |
| 18 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 19 | The assessment was based on a framework which described the orders of acquisition of number concepts . |
| 20 | Incidentally , the P-40 in the RAF Museum at Hendon was based on a picture my father had of FX760 ‘ GA- ? ’ which I had donated to the Museum a number of years ago for such a display . |
| 21 | This was a mammoth task since the last deal in Pakistan — by another company — was based on a formula which resulted in a price that was half of what was required to make the project economically attractive . |
| 22 | Whatever their spheres of extended influence the gentry 's power was based on the land they owned , and they formed the cap of a local social pyramid down which prosperity spread . |
| 23 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 24 | But she took little heed of her surroundings ; all her attention was focused on the man himself . |
| 25 | Any time left over was spent on the heterosexism we were experiencing from heterosexual women at the conferences . |
| 26 | Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence . |
| 27 | She was seated on the Woolpack which was tied like a saddle to her Grey Horse . |
| 28 | Though the window on the stairwell was left on the latch there was always a peculiar smell in the room , a mixture of coke fumes from the hot-water pipes , peppermints and that pervasive mist of eau de Cologne sprayed so recklessly by Dawn Allenby . |
| 29 | was crucified on a Cross they say . |
| 30 | No blame was put on the officers who were confronted with a situation that was , perhaps , totally novel to them ; certainly it was unusual . |