Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use .
2 Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card .
3 The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target .
4 Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start .
5 Detailed observations were carried out on the behaviour of the students during the actual course , and both students and teachers were interviewed as to their feelings in participating in this form of instruction .
6 At Pearl Harbor itself exactly at 0800hrs morning colours were carried out on the moored ships , the first wave of enemy aircraft was sighted but not suspected .
7 ‘ No fatigue tests were carried out on the B 707–300 series horizontal stabiliser structure prior to USA or UK certification .
8 Therefore , in order to minimise the risk of falsely rejecting an existing difference , p values less than 0.05 were considered as significant although multiple tests were carried out on the same data .
9 Age is unlikely to have influenced the findings or the conclusions of our study , because all the tests and comparisons were carried out on the same group of patients .
10 On a crude arithmetical basis if the same proportion of murders were carried out on the mainland of Britain in relation to the population we 'd have had a thousand dead in the past eight days .
11 Two further operations to her left wrist were carried out on the twenty seventh of January nineteen eighty nine and the twenty sixth of April nineteen eighty nine .
12 We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door .
13 Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region .
14 First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market .
15 Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time .
16 Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there
17 So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ .
18 Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ .
19 A hundred and twenty eight soldiers and civilian staff were moved out on the order of the base commander , some showing the signs of their ordeal .
20 The strategies , and the weapons designed for them , that were acted out on the north German plains bore a marked resemblance to the actual experience of the second world war .
21 During January 1989 , for example , over 500 bottlenose dolphins were washed up on the Atlantic coast of France .
22 At first potential jurors were classified by ethnic group and caste , but after the 1840s they were assigned to one of three lists which were drawn up on the basis of language capability .
23 A few fishing boats sat in the lagoon , some outrigger canoes were drawn up on the sand and one small pleasure yacht , which must have come from another island , was anchored to a buoy .
24 Within half an hour of leaving Rockford , the convoy had reached its destination and were drawn up on the verge alongside the perimeter fence , just short of the big front gates of Bethlehem House .
25 It was probably as a result of Arab contacts that pearl fisheries were opened up on the coast of East Africa .
26 Bearded seals were hauled out on the ice-floes here and there and there were occasional puffins and guillemots in the bits of open water .
27 The documents were handed over on the grounds that this could be compelled under section 2(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 .
28 Many personal arguments were played out on the book 's pages , sadly trivialising its function .
29 He was now studying the crayoned pictures of the nativity by local children which were taped up on the pillars .
30 When I arrived , the village was deathly quiet ; a few fishing boats were pulled up on the shingly beach but there was no activity .
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