Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] on a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer , keyboard and monitor were placed on a table outside the growth room and measurements were recorded regularly . |
| 2 | When they played cricket and other games in Calcutta their arms were placed on a table under a guard on the edge of the playing field , ready for instant action . |
| 3 | Their convictions were overturned on a technicality by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals leading to their retrial in 1991 . |
| 4 | By nine that morning they were parked on a side-street off Tottenham Court Road , Bodie at the wheel of the Capri , Doyle slouched down in the passenger seat , idly , almost cursorily , watching the heavy flow of traffic up towards Warren Street . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century the wines of Pierry were considered on a par with the best wines of Aÿ . |
| 6 | The total cosmid library contained about 8500 clones , a coverage of 23 , but most hybridisations were done on a sublibrary of 3000 clones ie a coverage of 8.5 . |
| 7 | The lines of a-poem were written on a plaque at the end of our corridor , ( He who has become a son of France , not through blood received , but by blood spilt . ) |
| 8 | The goats were tethered on a patch of grassy ground close to one of the gates . |
| 9 | I use it in what I take to be its essential sense , to mean that both the society as a whole and the system of government were organized on a principle of freedom of choice … |
| 10 | They were fed on a diet of live baby brine shrimp and grindal worm twice a day and a large partial water change was done each week . |
| 11 | During this period , fifty temples were built on a site of 200 square kilometres around the most prestigious of all , Angkor Wat . |
| 12 | If marriages were made on a bed of gold , here not one would fail , and in this case noblesse oblige . |
| 13 | The original ( i.e. medieval ) idea of the university looked to a self-governing community of scholars , in which there was no distinction in kind between those who mainly taught and those who mainly learned — all were embarked on a process of intellectual discovery . |
| 14 | Most notable of all , the German universities from the early nineteenth century onwards were founded on a conception of inquiry , and of educational development , in which the student took centre stage . |
| 15 | Less than three weeks after substantial Labour gains in the 1922 municipal election , Groves won Stratford from the Tories , while Thorne and Jones were re-elected on a platform of working-class advocacy . |
| 16 | These were based on a faith in the rationality and cooperative character of man and in the possibility of building a more harmonious society once inequality and exploitation were removed through state action . |
| 17 | His essentially pre-ecclesiological manner was given a variety and solidity by the use of carefully copied detail , and some of his later churches of the 1840s , such as Armitage Bridge near Huddersfield ( 1847–8 ) , were based on a system of proportions derived from medieval Gothic buildings , a subject on which he published a paper in the Builder in 1847 . |
| 18 | It had been suggested that religions were based on a feeling of something limitless and unbounded , a sense of eternity . |
| 19 | Rowntree 's leading brands included Kit Kat , Smarties , Yorkie and Quality Street and the bids for the company were based on a desire by the Swiss companies to own these brands and to market them globally . |
| 20 | Morton 's arguments were based on a study of sentence lengths , on the frequencies of common words , and on other grammatical features such as the proportion of different parts of speech . |
| 21 | The conditions agreed on Dec. 16 , which were based on a set of guidelines elaborated by France for recognition of new states emerging in Europe , included ( i ) acceptance of the UN , Helsinki Act and Paris Charter commitments on the rule of law , democracy and human rights ; ( ii ) guarantees of ethnic and minority rights ; ( iii ) acceptance of the inviolability of frontiers ; ( iv ) honouring disarmament and regional security commitments ; ( v ) arbitration to decide a structure to replace the old state ; ( vi ) acceptance of the draft agreement on Yugoslavia 's future , elaborated by the EC peace conference [ see p. 38559 ] . |
| 22 | They had realised , as William Pitt had done , that minimum wage legislation , even if it were based on a family with three children , was not enough to meet the need of all families . |
| 23 | I was fortunate enough to serve my two-year stint from 1956-1958 in the Navy , 18 months of which were spent on a frigate in the Mediterranean , happily bedded most nights , or when off-watch , in a hammock . |
| 24 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 25 | Miss Hubbers and her fiance , Lester Griebe , were escorted on a tour of the showroom before viewing a film in the visitor centre . |
| 26 | The Leader and the thin man were seated on a pile of saddles and saddle-bags with their backs against the wall . |
| 27 | Shields , lances , pennons , broadswords and sun , but shielded by parasols for those in need , the guests who were seated on a rostrum below the pillared ruins of Cyrus " might , watched this impressive defile . |
| 28 | Rats that had been pre-exposed to a tone were trained on a task in which presses on a lever in the presence of the tone yielded reward but responses in the absence of the tone did not . |
| 29 | Middle-class children from a German Jewish background were weaned on a faith in learning as the way to a prosperous and fulfilling career . |
| 30 | Washed and marked by the students , they were spread on a table for examination . |