Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A culture of gentility and manners was based on profit from rent and colonial investments . |
| 2 | Society was now based on complicity in the common crime ; religion was based on the sense of guilt and the remorse attaching to it ; while morality was based partly on the exigencies of this society and partly on the penance demanded by the sense of guilt . |
| 3 | The first auction was held on Jan. 26 and was hailed as a great success . |
| 4 | Q My 15-month-old Belgian Shepherd was put on Hills Science Prescription Diet owing to crystals in his urine . |
| 5 | The disappointment was flushed on Poshekhonov 's face . |
| 6 | The British Tinnitus Association was formed on 9 July 1979 . |
| 7 | The proposal for the formation of a National Deaf Association was discussed on Saturday morning in the presence of nineteen delegates . |
| 8 | The UK personal computer industry 's first direct sales trade association was launched on May 21 both to try to protect customers from a business renowned for its cowboys and to guarantee customers a certain level of service quality . |
| 9 | Eventually the Scottish Typographical Association was founded on a lasting basis in 1853 , composed of branches in towns where there was a moderate degree of printing activity . |
| 10 | The Automobile Association was established on 26 June 1905 , a few months after Charles Jarrott and William Letts had set up a warning system to advise motorists of police speed traps on some sections of the London to Brighton road . |
| 11 | Its membership of the Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association was suspended on 16 April 1992/ |
| 12 | Walsh 's thinking was based on the theory known in economic jargon as ‘ reverse income substitution effect ’ . |
| 13 | Dr Cunningham was fixated on the potent effect of sex and socialism on Patricia Hewitt 's homophobic pensioners , who were yet still ignorant of their imminent deliverance by Glenys Thornton 's ‘ Plan To Win ’ : Mr Roberts , though extremely mindful of Labour 's Duty To Win , had had close working experience with the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights . |
| 14 | It was claimed that Kylie was placed on a special 1500 calorie a day diet to try to replace the lost weight . |
| 15 | A session with Bakha was said to have taken place while Kylie was working on Neighbours . |
| 16 | A contractor was working on a drain outside . |
| 17 | An EC convoy attempting to reach Vukovar with aid was attacked on Oct. 12 . |
| 18 | Likewise , the major part of improvement of pre-1914 stock was based on the availability of 75% grants which had an identical objective . |
| 19 | As I think Mr Gillett already suspects , the truth is that a great part of the Willesden Green library stock was sacrificed on the altar of Community Librarianship . |
| 20 | Mantzouranis was arrested on March 2 , 1989 , and charged with illegally handling $2,000,000 of Bank of Crete funds . |
| 21 | Now the stranger was standing on the quayside , watching several straining seamen carry a large , brass-bound chest down the gangplank . |
| 22 | A great deal was riding on it : some said the Fox studio was at stake . |
| 23 | A proposal to disclose details of the Brands deal was defeated on the casting vote of the Chairman at a meeting this week . |
| 24 | The deal was agreed on a Friday night and Dunne was rushed to London to make his début against Middlesbrough the next day . |
| 25 | Warhurst was originally set to jump aboard the Kenny Dalglish bandwagon for £3 million last month , but the deal was put on ice when Wednesday failed to land Brian Deane from neighbours Sheffield United as replacement . |
| 26 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 27 | The experiment was based on the Siegel and Markey comparison experiments . |
| 28 | Well you see the , the , the great Soviet experiment is a good example is n't it of , of a whole civilization was based on a o o on a kind of great social experiment was based on ultimately on erm unsound principles and then a part of the scenes . |
| 29 | The first of these , under the title ‘ In Search of Democracy ’ , ran in the autumn term 1956 for seventeen apprentices with the Marconi Company in Chelmsford , and the experiment was repeated on a regular basis thereafter , usually with one course in each of the autumn and spring terms . |
| 30 | So an experiment was performed on a large scale using approximately 500µg of expressed protein . |