Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections to the Bundestag ( Federal Diet — which in turn elected the Chancellor ) were due on Dec. 9 , 1990 . |
| 2 | Fresh elections were due on April 7 in six constituencies where turnout on Feb. 24 had been below 50 per cent ( the average turnout was over 71 per cent ) , and were also awaited in two constituencies where a run-off on March 4 had failed to produce a winner . |
| 3 | There were no controls from non-malignant cases , but all specimens were well separated from the tumour , were normal on microscopy , and by all histological criteria were representative of normal gastric mucosa . |
| 4 | Walked through there and got to the simulator took our jackets off , pretended we 'd already been in walked straight past and we were right on site ! |
| 5 | There was one instance when the tanker had left and we were low on fuel that we radioed in to say we were coming home . |
| 6 | Ministers were touchy on accusations of spending public money on making the prisons more comfortable for criminals while so many deserving people were suffering hardship or deprivation . |
| 7 | The Gruagach were strong on courtesy ; Inchbad had always been very firm about this , even to the extent of feeding prisoners before the Fidchell which Goibniu had always said was a waste of good food and wine . |
| 8 | Regrettably , like some of its other statements on primary education , many of these were strong on values and assertion but weak on substance and justification . |
| 9 | Mm that 's what I mean , I y we found that with four , is even more so , what some people were strong on others were n't and it it worked round you know , if you picked your team right everybody would thought perhaps it was better to have one woman in the team or , you know , if you had four women |
| 10 | There would be no attempt at rescue , and it came home to Rostov with sudden force that he and the others were marooned on Tarvaras for ever . |
| 11 | Try as the Danzig government might , the free city 's ethnic and economic difficulties were dependent on forces almost totally beyond its control . |
| 12 | For those of us who lived farther afield and were dependent on buses , such participation was seldom possible . |
| 13 | by no means all priests were dependent on income from the Church . |
| 14 | Debt reduction and rescheduling agreements with several of Poland 's Western creditor countries were dependent on conditions set by a 1991 agreement with the IMF . |
| 15 | The four acute hospitals studied also varied in the extent to which they were dependent on business from their own district , from 20 per cent in a teaching hospital which had a large range of supraregional specialities and dealt with over 120 districts , to over 90 per cent in a rural district general hospital . |
| 16 | Despite the earlier reservations about the differing user needs , it was felt that , because both departments were dependent on images in their operations , eg plans , drawings etc , rather than just textual documents , there could be considerable potential for the use of Document Image Processing ( DIP ) systems . |
| 17 | The tobacco industry was purchasing powerful political constituencies by sponsorship : not only individuals but also sporting and cultural organisations were dependent on tobacco . |
| 18 | The courts were dependent on interpreters from the very beginning of British rule . |
| 19 | Very recent figures on the precise extent of subcontracting are difficult to obtain but the Fifth Basic Survey of Industry ( 1979 ) showed that over 60 per cent of small and medium-sized firms ( i.e. up to 300 employees ) were dependent on orders from other firms . |
| 20 | In pastoral Suffolk fewer than half this class were dependent on wages , presumably younger men who were not yet cottagers . |
| 21 | According to the Finance Minister , Arne Skauge , the fund would also draw attention to the extent to which government finances were dependent on oil revenues and would ensure that in future closer attention would be paid to long-term use of the revenues . |
| 22 | It was early yet — not even six o'clock — and they were high on spending money and trying lovely outfits on , so did not give a toss . |
| 23 | Even the two hurdle races were light on entries with 21 for the maiden and 24 for the handicap . |
| 24 | The palest people were distinct on Monday . |
| 25 | However , Major and his team were delighted on Wednesday night after meeting the new president for more than four hours . |
| 26 | If you were groggy on speed you behaved a bit like Marshall — your feet were n't solidly stuck to the ground — there was a look in your eyes that was n't lust — and was n't all purity , either — amazed recognition summed it up , but did n't make sense . |
| 27 | In theory 25 million men were subject to the draft , but 12 million were exempt on health grounds , 5 million for various technical reasons , and something over 6 million for the simple reason that the economy required their labour . |
| 28 | ‘ So you were drunk-driving on top of everything else ? |
| 29 | His fingers were tight on Farquhar 's shoulders . |
| 30 | No other abnormalities were present on examination or investigation . |