Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [conj] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 860 , for instance , when Charles needed cash to hire a Viking warband , he taxed not only churches and peasants but also " traders , even very small-scale ones : their houses and all their stock were valued and on that basis a rate was assessed and required " . |
| 2 | There was an increase of 20 per cent in the number of cycles completed per unit time after reorganisation from the conventional to the composite longwall system ( a cycle being the three processes of preparation , getting , and advancing ) , though they do note that , at the same time , better conveyors were introduced and on one face there was a change from hewing the coal to cutting it ( Trist et al. 1963 , 256 ) . |
| 3 | As a result , directives were issued that on flag-flying days hoisting should take place at 8 am . |
| 4 | But its arguments were ignored and on 5 July BCCI was put into liquidation . |
| 5 | It was reported that on New Year 's Day these were closed by 3.30 p.m . |
| 6 | On 23 May a receiving order was made and on 11 November 1983 the husband was adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 7 | On 11 December 1991 the interim order was made and on 23 December 1991 the order under appeal was made . |
| 8 | Such a link was made when on 20 February 1984 a heavy fall of black snow took place in the Cairngorms in Scotland . |
| 9 | It was noted that on two occasions members of the committee collected subscriptions in the treasurer 's absence . |
| 10 | He was court-martialled and on 3 May 1916 he was executed by a firing squad at Kilmainham Gaol , Dublin , as on 4 May was his brother William , who had acted as his aide-de-camp . |
| 11 | Anson well knew that if control of the Channel was lost all was lost and on 5 April he assured the king that his fleet , with 30 ships of the line , would by the following month outnumber the French , with their 27 warships between Brest and Rochefort . |
| 12 | As the Foreign Office was still trying to maintain the secrecy of my visits , it was determined that on this occasion I would be met at Johannesburg airport and driven by road to the Rhodesian border where I would be picked up and conveyed by the Rhodesian authorities . |
| 13 | It was held that on these facts the plaintiff had a good cause of action . |
| 14 | As argued elsewhere ( Tomkins , 1987 ) , both Mrs Thatcher in moving to a more competitive economy in the United Kingdom and President Kennedy in declaring that the United States would put a man on the moon established very strong ideologies based more on fundamental beliefs as to what was required than on extensive rational analysis , and they both achieved considerable change . |