Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 2 | Most of the dressers were on a basic daily rate but some were paid on a measure of their work done . |
| 3 | This was made on a piece of 3mm hardboard measuring 300mm by 230mm ( 12″ by 9″ ) although you can adjust these measurements to suit yourself ; nothing else is affected by this . |
| 4 | Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned . |
| 5 | This was constructed on the base of the last remaining toastrack 163 , which had been stored in Fleetwood Depot . |
| 6 | This was based on a revival of Plato 's ideas and so is called Neoplatonism . |
| 7 | It also raises the possibility that the younger children in Emerson 's task may indeed have understood that there is a directional component to the meaning of because , but that this was based on a grasp of causal direction and not the temporal priority for which Emerson was testing . |
| 8 | The journalistic and political inference was that children in primary classrooms are not working nearly hard enough ; generally this was based on an aggregation of the percentages for ‘ routine ’ , ‘ awaiting attention ’ and ‘ distracted ’ to produce the claim that 40 per cent of time was ‘ wasted ’ . |
| 9 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 10 | But this was based on the assumption that the current tax relief limit of £30,000 would be increased in line with inflation . |
| 11 | This was based on the antics of a crew chief John C Ford — Jack to his friends — who had some knuckled dentistry and lost a tooth during a bar-room brawl en route to England . |
| 12 | This was based on the research of Nesta Webster , the grand dame of British conspiracy theory , who saw Jews in alliance with other subversive forces , as being behind all the ills of the modern world , from the threats to the British Empire through to the nudity movement . |
| 13 | A 4″ 90° bend was purchased and this was placed on the outlet pipe running from the new pond to the header pools to take the water from a lower level in the pond . |
| 14 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 15 | This was operated on the ICL 1900 processor . |
| 16 | This was justified on the grounds that , since lifetime gifts were exempt from inheritance tax , there was no longer double capital taxation . |
| 17 | This was justified on the grounds that , having failed to get into grammar school , I would be educationally disadvantaged further by attending the local comprehensive . |
| 18 | This provoked the Church Commissioners to mount their own exhibition to counter some of the criticism voiced in the SAVE exhibition , and this was sent on a tour of cathedrals . |
| 19 | The system was complicated by the introduction at a late stage of a further provision enabling federal states to designate more than one Central Authority ; this was done on the suggestion of the German Federal Republic ( which had previously resisted the British proposal as tending to multiply Central Authorities ) to enable expression to be given to the sovereignty of the German Länder in the field of justice , and does require the applicant to identify the Land in question . |
| 20 | If a text needed to be amended , or comment made on it , this was done on the file itself , either on the relevant paper within the file or on a note attached to it . |
| 21 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 22 | This was rejected on the grounds that such sinister tunnels would become lurking places for thieves . |
| 23 | This was featured on a cardigan in an early Passap pattern book and I have used it lots of times bath as a band and a braid . |
| 24 | While all this was going on a number of Americans , including the head of CIA operations in Beirut , William Buckley , were kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organisations which had tenuous links with Iran . |
| 25 | At ‘ Badington ’ the Duchess of Beaufort grew Cestrum nocturnum , a native of the West Indies , and this was distributed on the continent , known there as the ‘ Badington Jasmine ’ . |
| 26 | This was found on a Romano — British settlement at Kettering during development from 1903 . |
| 27 | One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups : the poor , women and ethnic minorities . |
| 28 | Most of this was spent on a cup and saucer for my brother Stanley Basil , two years younger , the cup bearing the inscription ‘ A Present from Weymouth ’ . |
| 29 | Some IR£150 million of this was spent on the St. James 's Gate site . |
| 30 | Increasing prosperity in the United Kingdom meant that people had more spare cash , and much of this was spent on an increase in personal travel . |