Example sentences of "were [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Party leaders should consider taking the major drug companies into public ownership so that their products were developed on the basis of need rather than profit . |
| 2 | Simonds notes that ‘ Nearly opposite to St Pancras Church stood a Toll-Bar , and to prevent horsemen avoiding payment , some posts were erected on the footpath , between which we had to pass . |
| 3 | The first AA telephone boxes were erected on the Ashford to Hythe ( Kent ) road in July 1912 . |
| 4 | Screens were erected on the walls . |
| 5 | Confidence intervals for these were calculated on the basis of the associated binomial probability . |
| 6 | In addition project outcome correlations with project-independent variables were calculated on the pooled data . |
| 7 | Finally , Meshkinpour 's figures were calculated on the basis of hospital charges for manometry , whereas our figure was derived from actual costs . |
| 8 | Confidence intervals were calculated on the assumption that the variance of the log relative risk is equal to the sum of the reciprocals of the observed number of cases in the two groups being compared . |
| 9 | All the cards and calendars which had come to the house were arranged on the mantelpiece , and amongst them were little boxes of sweets and candied fruit and brightly hued crackers . |
| 10 | The days of the week were listed on the left side and a space of perhaps one inch by five was allowed for brief jottings . |
| 11 | The amino-acid sequences were aligned on the basis of structural superpositions . |
| 12 | Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company . |
| 13 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 14 | Last year 17 schemes were completed on the local network with a further 5 on trunk roads ( Table 27 ) . |
| 15 | About 190 questionnaires were completed on the campus , with an additional 250 names and addresses of absent colleagues submitted . |
| 16 | Still , you see if they 're coming from somewhere like Southampton or wherever they might have come , maybe they were delayed on the journey and er So we went and had our half hour lunch . |
| 17 | Few additional loads were placed on the original structure . |
| 18 | ‘ All right , ’ said the clerk wearily and showed me where these were placed on the form . |
| 19 | Even baskets of oddments were placed on the pavement , a practice which would be frowned on today , but the footpaths were kept spotlessly clean by each trader . |
| 20 | When restrictions were placed on the amount of foreign music that could be played , more of the new urban music , which had been recorded commercially , was broadcast . |
| 21 | Thus , Becker , in his historical survey of the numerous monographs published on the subject in the hundred years up to 1950 , notes that the vast majority had reached that conclusion ; though he also comments on the many different interpretations that were placed on the evidence . |
| 22 | Just two mops were placed on the tank floor , and as the water depth was only 6½″ the mops did not take up too much tank space . |
| 23 | Finally , Morgan commented that enormous demands were placed on the staff of the latter unit and recommended a review of its organization . |
| 24 | Restrictions were placed on the number of pleats and buttons on new garments . |
| 25 | Cigarettes were placed on the table in front of you which meant that they were for everybody . |
| 26 | Relatively few scientific works were placed on the Index . |
| 27 | At a stroke , we might almost say , political ideas which had only been aspirations or dreams in the minds of philosophers or popular radicals , were placed on the agenda of real politics , not only in France or even Europe , but globally . |
| 28 | At the Potsdam conference in July 1945 all the occupation powers agreed to disarm Germany , and limits were placed on the types of goods which German factories could produce , to prevent her regaining any war potential . |
| 29 | Hollander and possibly Reichmann were placed on the British consulate blacklist . |
| 30 | Restrictions were placed on the use of aldrin and dieldrin as seed dressings in 1962 and the use of dieldrin as a sheep dip was restricted in 1966 . |