Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was burnt to the ground in the disaster which overtook the town in AD 296 , when the northern frontier was overrun by invaders , but it was soon rebuilt on an even more lavish scale , which possibly included a bath wing The whole complex is usually interpreted as a mansio . |
| 2 | It was largely based on the design for S. Sernin in Toulouse and was started after but completed earlier than the French church ( 423 ) . |
| 3 | It was not helped by the fact that it was involuntarily wriggling on the plate . |
| 4 | Introducing a two-day debate on the bill , he said it was firmly based on the principle of the NHS as a great public service , free for the patients , regardless of means , and financed out of taxation . |
| 5 | It was however , considered but a matter of perseverance , for it was well exposed on the surface above . |
| 6 | To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress . |
| 7 | It was also criticized on the grounds that it was likely to turn unelected members of the judiciary into the final arbiters of fiscal policy . |
| 8 | It was also announced on the same day that the Greek government was to replace Vasso Papandreou as the Commissioner responsible for social affairs and employment , education and training , and human resources by Greek Finance Minister Ioannis Paleokrassas . |
| 9 | Alexander III 's approach reflected his own predilections , but it was also based on a sound sense of the options open to him . |
| 10 | It was also based on the household unit , irrespective of how many people were actually living in the household . |
| 11 | It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place . |
| 12 | It was just floating on the surface , not wading or swimming , but unnaturally afloat ; so exhausted it could n't even sit upright . |
| 13 | ‘ It was probably hit on the road and then somebody threw it into the lake , ’ Ross Aldridge , the young constable , told her . |
| 14 | The actual status of Ham Hill is uncertain , but as one of the largest hillforts in the region it was probably occupied on the eve of the conquest , much like its counterpart at South Cadbury to the east . |
| 15 | The candidate survey differed from the client survey in three respects : first , the rate of response was slightly lower , despite the fact that it was carefully based on the Financial Times listings of movements of executives and on firms where much headhunting was known to have taken place ; second , the views of headhunters were more negative ; and third , none would mention the names of specific search firms or venture opinions on them in particular . |
| 16 | Considerable discussion took place during the passage of the Bill through Parliament on the sum fixed for the payments , and it was strongly opposed on the ground that it was too small . |
| 17 | Perhaps because it was conveniently placed on the edge of the Old City closest to the modern , developed parts where the more well-to-do lived , there were surprisingly wealthy people in its congregation . |
| 18 | Then it was simply laid on the floor of the tomb , or forced into a large storage jar which was laid on its side in the tomb ; a third alternative , which became more popular with time , was to place the trussed corpse in a clay box or larnax . |
| 19 | It was personally served on the president at the Lugano address by an agent of the plaintiffs . |
| 20 | It was actually sited on a horn shaped piece of land between the River Bain and the River Waring . |
| 21 | It was hurriedly written on a scrap of papyrus which had been used and scraped clean several times before . |
| 22 | Ewa Kuryluk , in her study of female creativity , Veronica and Her Cloth , focusses on the saint 's veil as a key symbol of the act of representation : she created the vera icon or true image of Christ 's face , when she wiped his face and it was miraculously printed on the cloth in blood , sweat and tears.5 The body of art is born of the body itself , and women have a special relation to the fecundity , through their ascribed — and actual — part in the reproductive cycle . |
| 23 | It was still lying on the ground near where Hugh was deeply asleep . |
| 24 | She walked up the path and leant wearily against the wall while she dug in her bag for her key , then groaned when she remembered that it was still lying on the floor of the car park where she had dropped it . |
| 25 | For instance , Ritchie Blackmore was a very fast player , but it was always based on a blues thing , never on ‘ How many notes can I get in the scale ? ’ |
| 26 | He had been educated in Britain and in 1875 , as an eighteen-year-old student , had brought the first football to Madeira — some thirteen years before it was ever played on the Portuguese mainland . |
| 27 | ‘ If you 'd really wanted to hurt me , you 'd have let Ash go ahead with the publicity , would have backed him up , and I would n't have been able to deny it because it was all based on the truth , but a twisted truth ! |
| 28 | It was all centred on a man who was now dead , a man who had cast her aside long ago . |
| 29 | The second is that this form was not served on him , although it was undoubtedly served on the governor of the prison where he was detained on 3 July and should have been given to Mr. Butler . |
| 30 | Around 370 million years old , it was once a tropical sea-bed yet it was only placed on the tourist map nine years ago when a TV crew flew over it by chance . |