Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payment was made without deduction of tax , and pension rights were treated as ending on 5 November 1979 . |
| 2 | Tax increases were avoided but spending on a wide variety of government programmes was frozen or limited ; one of the most controversial aspects of the budget was the plan to place a two-year freeze on increases in federal transfer payments to provinces for health care and secondary education programmes . |
| 3 | His bags were packed and waiting on the bed . |
| 4 | Last year 64 people were killed while working on UK farms . |
| 5 | In 1975–76 the cycloaracylation process , a new general method for making quinolone and azaquinolonecarboxylic acids substituted at position 1 , was developed while working on synthesising heterocyclic compounds by cycloacylating tautomeric enamines and enhydrazines with bifunctional acylating agents . |
| 6 | Development of the social services was seen as concentrating on improving the Big Four — unemployment insurance , workmen 's compensation , health insurance and old-age pensions — which provided against the ‘ interruption of earnings ’ which caused five-sixths of the want in Britain before the war . |
| 7 | ( The Iraqi News Agency was quoted as reporting on Aug. 3 that Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , at a meeting with the Iraqi and Yemeni delegations in Istanbul on Aug. 3 , had expressed support for the ending of the blockade . ) |
| 8 | Viljoen was quoted as saying on Radio South Africa on Feb. 5 that there was no reason why a deadline of April 30 for the release of political detainees and the return of exiles could not be met . |
| 9 | A United States State Department official was quoted as saying on April 16 that US sanctions would remain in force pending South Africa 's compliance with the remaining two of five conditions set by the US Congress . |
| 10 | Three weeks of fighting around Monrovia since the start of the latest rebel attacks [ see p. 39131 ] had killed 3,000 people and wounded 8,000 , a World Health Organization ( WHO ) official was quoted as saying on Nov. 3 . |
| 11 | The C.-in-C. of the Indonesian armed forces , Gen. Try Sutrisno , was quoted as saying on Nov. 23 that Gusmao would be " accused of engaging in subversive acts , murder and theft , accusations which may mean the death penalty " . |