Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 2 | Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned . |
| 3 | This was constructed on the base of the last remaining toastrack 163 , which had been stored in Fleetwood Depot . |
| 4 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 5 | But this was based on the assumption that the current tax relief limit of £30,000 would be increased in line with inflation . |
| 6 | This was based on the research of Nesta Webster , the grand dame of British conspiracy theory , who saw Jews in alliance with other subversive forces , as being behind all the ills of the modern world , from the threats to the British Empire through to the nudity movement . |
| 7 | A 4″ 90° bend was purchased and this was placed on the outlet pipe running from the new pond to the header pools to take the water from a lower level in the pond . |
| 8 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 9 | The system was complicated by the introduction at a late stage of a further provision enabling federal states to designate more than one Central Authority ; this was done on the suggestion of the German Federal Republic ( which had previously resisted the British proposal as tending to multiply Central Authorities ) to enable expression to be given to the sovereignty of the German Länder in the field of justice , and does require the applicant to identify the Land in question . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At ‘ Badington ’ the Duchess of Beaufort grew Cestrum nocturnum , a native of the West Indies , and this was distributed on the continent , known there as the ‘ Badington Jasmine ’ . |
| 12 | This was sold on the telephone to a private collector for £130,000 ( $234,000 ) against an estimate of £80–120,000 , an auction record for a Pahari miniature . |
| 13 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 14 | Perhaps too much was written on the career of Mick Mannock , whose group of medals including his VC , DSO , and two bars , MC and bar were offered for sale . |
| 15 | Dr Peter Mann , Reader in Sociology in the University of Sheffield , conducted a survey among undergraduates on the use of book lists , libraries and bookshops , and on how much was spent on the purchase of books . |
| 16 | Confidence intervals for these were calculated on the basis of the associated binomial probability . |
| 17 | The first European motorways were built in Germany and Italy in the 1920s and 1930s ; the UK had active plans to follow them , but these were shelved on the outbreak of war , and the first British motorway was not built until 1958 ( the Preston bypass ) . |
| 18 | ‘ All right , ’ said the clerk wearily and showed me where these were placed on the form . |
| 19 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 20 | These were held on the road outside the inn and the distances were : one mile , a half and a quarter of a mile . |
| 21 | These were approved on the proposal of , seconded by . |
| 22 | The first of these was shown on the opening night of the new Channel Four station on November 2nd , 1982 , and regarded as the channel 's first ‘ star ’ production . |
| 23 | Many were built on the edge of towns or cities and have subsequently been overtaken by urban development . |
| 24 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 25 | But as he spoke , the mess created by the Downing Street duo was anything but fine , as thousands more were thrown on the scrapheap in Britain 's deepening recession . |
| 26 | And that 's all that was said on the video . |
| 27 | And that was all that was said on the way home . |
| 28 | That was based on the film starring Al Pacino , itself based on the true story of a New York cop who made allegations of corruption in the city 's police department . |
| 29 | When the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central European type of scenario , and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time . |
| 30 | The first community charge bill that dropped through my letter box , and those of thousands of my constituents , was for £376 , £346 of which was to be spent by the Labour-controlled county council : that was stated on the bill . |