Example sentences of "was [vb pp] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this first study , the resulting model of prediction of outcome at six weeks was validated on the next 28 patients admitted between January 1989 and May 1990 with their initial variceal bleed . |
| 2 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 3 | It was begun in 1794 , but the first borings were a total failure , due to unsatisfactory design and materials , and unforeseen and excessive seepage of water into the workings , and work was stopped on the proposed two-mile-long tunnel in 1796 . |
| 4 | Schwantz , winner of 19 Grands Prix in a fruitless search for the world title , was joined on the front row by fellow American Wayne Rainey , bidding for a fourth successive crown , and Australian prospect Daryl Beattie . |
| 5 | The Test match at Old Trafford , which had been packed with stirring deeds , was plunged on the fourth evening into hideous disarray . |
| 6 | The fifth , a woman , was remanded on the same charge yesterday .. |
| 7 | Yeah , I was forgetting that that was that was calculated on the two . |
| 8 | Our newest granddaughter Rachel was christened on the first Sunday of the new year , and that was a wonderful happy day , with a party in her parents ’ home . |
| 9 | Yorkshire was floated on the Unlisted Securities Market in August and the chairman , Michael Mallett , says the recent ‘ heady growth ’ in revenue is slackening as the squeeze on retail sales tightens . |
| 10 | The Regional Council was consulted on the previous supermarket application and may be consulted by the District Council on the present proposal , although this is not certain as I believe it is about half the size of the earlier application . |
| 11 | The first patient to receive commercially produced penicillin in America was treated on the 14th March 1942 . |
| 12 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 13 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 14 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 15 | A further official assurance was given on the total number of troops , but the public preferred to believe its own eyes . |
| 16 | His dramatic evidence was given on the fourth day of the trial of his former common-law wife Shiela Stroud , 32 , and her lover Mark Evans , 31 . |
| 17 | Tritsch Tratsch was given on the same programme , being hailed with delight for its humour and for the sparkling dancing of Poole and Luyt as ‘ two brisk young sailors , and Renée Feller as the sprightly object of their affections ’ . |
| 18 | The highest , Park Mill , was situated on the lowest lake , but now remains in name alone ; however , the other two mills , farther down the valley , fared somewhat better . |
| 19 | It was situated on the flat ground at the head of Faetten Fjord near to the spot where the Tirpitz was moored . |
| 20 | The club was situated on the top two floors of the building . |
| 21 | He suffered , however , from severe seasickness and in 1885 he was placed on the retired list . |
| 22 | As a result of these , too great a blame for dioxin contamination was placed on the chemical industry . |
| 23 | Her bed was placed on the great dining table , where her wedding cake had been , and she lay there , covered with a white sheet , half conscious . |
| 24 | At the outset of a partnership that was to lead to great success , Allison was placed on the front line of the band 's paranoid attitude to outside influence . |
| 25 | In 1769 the Golden Madonna , unofficial symbol of the city , was placed on the highest spire of the Duomo . |
| 26 | Too much emphasis was placed on the necessary function of actually producing an annual programme to which different parties can agree and that identifies the full list of projects seeking funding . |
| 27 | In 1815 he was placed on the reserve list and returned to Edinburgh . |
| 28 | Much emphasis was placed on the raffish past , with roll-calls of distinguished libertines . |
| 29 | After the induction of anaesthesia with sodium pentobarbital ( 50 mg/kg ) , a cerebroventricular guide was placed on the superior aspect of the skull to allow injection into the lateral ventricle as previously described . |
| 30 | This defect was ingeniously got over by developing a hardener which could be painted by itself on to one half of the joint while the glue was painted on the other half , nothing began to happen in the glue until the two halves were brought together . |