Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report on Radio France Internationale said that , in addition , 17 people were wounded when police fired on crowds . |
| 2 | As early as 1705 there were five of these with well-defined functions each handling relations with a specific group of countries , and new departments were added as time went on ( for example a Ceremonial Department which evolved in the reign of Catherine II ) . |
| 3 | This agreement was an essential item incorporated into the Form of Tender , and allowances made accordingly , although some adjustments to the programming were made as work proceeded on site . |
| 4 | United were panicking as Newcastle went on the attack . |
| 5 | Prisons were opened and crowds fired on the Law Courts and by nightfall the mob controlled Petrograd . |
| 6 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 7 | I think at the end it must come down to two things ; one basically a change in attitude — we have to come to recognise that we live in a very , very technological society , that most of us were born before man walked on the moon , but the kids in school were born in an age when man had walked on the moon ten years ago and they live in a world which is very scientific , and we have to recognise that — and the other one is practical sense , I think , where we really have to look seriously to in-service training of teachers , a ) and b ) we have to look carefully at the way we train teachers now . |
| 8 | In the morning , she rose early and already the fires were lit and breakfast cooking on the range . |
| 9 | Substantial improvements were gained before OPEC moved on the following year to attack the issue of equity participation by host governments in the businesses engaged in extracting and exporting the mineral . |
| 10 | The next day at least 35 people were killed when troops fired on crowds in three areas of the city . |
| 11 | Approval was given and reclamation started on an area of over 20 hectares to the North of Imperial Dock . |
| 12 | The impasse was broken when Bush conceded on one of his key demands , a reduction in the capital gains tax . |
| 13 | The payment of seamen 's wages only when the owner had been paid for the freight carried , on the ancient maxim that " freights are the mother of wages " , was discontinued and payment required on the basis of service , whether freight was carried or not . |
| 14 | The door was bolted but Wycliffe banged on it and was admitted by a uniformed policeman . |
| 15 | It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back . |
| 16 | Overall , however , the impression of unity was preserved as delegates voted on 320 non-binding resolutions , many of which reaffirmed Mulroney 's handling of the economy and the issue of national unity . |
| 17 | A representative sample of 21 local authorities in England and Wales was taken and information gathered on knowledge , policies and services relating to disabled people . |
| 18 | But socialism was doomed unless power remained on the factory floor and flowed upwards , rather than downwards . |