Example sentences of "on [Wh det] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a handsome building , much embellished by scrollwork picked out in cream , and topped by a tower something between a lighthouse and a campanile on which was displayed in enormous , twinkling light bulbs . |
| 2 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 3 | Behind it was a stone wall on which was written in bronze letters the motto of the Legion , ‘ Legio Patria Nostra ’ . |
| 4 | The vast red sail burst free of its lashings , the wind filling it so that it bowed forward in a great scarlet curve on which was painted in brilliant gold the portrait of the Golden Girl herself , bubble-curled , lips pouting — Marilyn Monroe . |
| 5 | She hurried back to the dressing-tent , where her mummy helped her into her Gnome outfit , around which was swathed a broad white band on which was printed in big letters the Brownie Guide Motto , LEND A HAND . |
| 6 | It had a canopy over the entrance on which was inscribed in large letters ‘ Ospedale Civile Peracchi ’ ; Peracchi being the name of its benefactor . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , some baulked at the idea of having to take on what was perceived as a statutory audit role . |
| 8 | According to Pearl , the final decision was based on what was discovered from the reference site visits . |
| 9 | In these two cases , the motivation for the institutional preference was quite different : one based on what was felt to be best for the sufferer , and the other largely on what was best for the carer . |
| 10 | Very few of the stations on what was built of the Cape to Cairo railway were anything more than small wayside halts . |
| 11 | It should be noted , however , that on 10 January R07 HMS Ark Royal sailed from Portsmouth on what was stated to be a ‘ scheduled deployment for exercises in the Mediterranean with allied navies ’ . |
| 12 | The information is based on what was sent to the Area Staff Office in 1990 . |
| 13 | Throughout the 1960s there was increasing analysis of and comment on what was seen to be Britain 's flagging economic performance . |
| 14 | It was not simply the well-rehearsed and deeply felt arguments for and against abolition which exercised and divided its members , but the proper role of the Government on what was seen as a question of conscience . |
| 15 | Calling itself La Rete ( the Network ) , the movement focused on what was seen as a crucial nationwide fight against the Mafia and organized crime . |
| 16 | There were considered theological reasons , based on what was believed to be the case about the biological relationship of woman and man , as to why they could not be . |
| 17 | Also , much practice is based on what was learnt from teaching and vocational training subsequently modified by experience , but does not necessarily reflect current knowledge in all areas — for example , many continue to give repeated routine examination in shared antenatal care . |
| 18 | On what was described as an old-style West Indian pitch , Botham again won the toss and at last chose to bat ; a good start was ended when Gooch ran himself out , and soon wickets were tumbling . |
| 19 | The appeal court , overturning this conviction , found him guilty only on what was described as the lesser charge of genocide . |
| 20 | From my place on the gallery I could keep a watch on Claire 's door and on what was happening in the hall below . |
| 21 | As we noted earlier the surveys of both secondary and primary schools provided information on what was happening in schools , although they were restricted ( in the case of the secondary survey particularly ) to a subject-based analysis of the curriculum . |
| 22 | He added that in return I had to help him : I would have to come to his office once a week and report on what was happening in Fontanellato . |
| 23 | I tried to think of nice things ; then , when I could n't think of any , I determined to concentrate on what was happening around me . |
| 24 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |
| 25 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 26 | Based in Zagreb , he succeeds Sir Donald Acheson , who went there in July last year on what was expected to be a two or three month assignment . |
| 27 | I was one of the bowlers asked to provide the cannon fodder to the big international batting stars on what was meant to be a fun day out . |
| 28 | Formerly , the system of sub-sub-delegation of authorization ( from Parliament to the Secretary of State to SIB to SRO 's and RPB 's ) hinged on what was known as the principle of equivalence ie. the principle that the rules and codes of an SRO or RPB should afford investors protection at least equivalent to that provided by the SIB 's rules ( see Schedule 2 para 3 FSA 1986 before the new changes were introduced ) . |
| 29 | Scholars will remember the original theory of the CAP was based on what was known as ‘ the law of comparative advantage ’ — in short , countries should each farm crops and enterprises in which they had a significant economic advantage . |
| 30 | * A small mound ( roughly ‘ T ’ -shaped ? ) of damp sand was made to raise the ball off the ground ( if required ) , for the first shot on every hole and a box of sand for this purpose was located on what was known in the earlier days as the teeing ground , but is now known as the tee , or tee box . |