Example sentences of "[det] was [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned . |
| 2 | This was constructed on the base of the last remaining toastrack 163 , which had been stored in Fleetwood Depot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But this was based on the assumption that the current tax relief limit of £30,000 would be increased in line with inflation . |
| 5 | This was based on the antics of a crew chief John C Ford — Jack to his friends — who had some knuckled dentistry and lost a tooth during a bar-room brawl en route to England . |
| 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 | This was operated on the ICL 1900 processor . |
| 10 | This was justified on the grounds that , since lifetime gifts were exempt from inheritance tax , there was no longer double capital taxation . |
| 11 | This was justified on the grounds that , having failed to get into grammar school , I would be educationally disadvantaged further by attending the local comprehensive . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 15 | This was rejected on the grounds that such sinister tunnels would become lurking places for thieves . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups : the poor , women and ethnic minorities . |
| 18 | Some IR£150 million of this was spent on the St. James 's Gate site . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And that 's all that was said on the video . |
| 25 | And that was all that was said on the way home . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That was done on the basis of professional advice . |
| 30 | And do you remember You must remember sort of changes in the chemicals that were you know , that was used on the land in the in the time that you were . |