Example sentences of "who [was/were] [verb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish Members of Parliament who were serving on the Committee for the Enterprise and New Towns ( Scotland ) Bill regarding the central provision of core functions in Scottish Enterprise ; |
| 2 | He underlines Nithard 's insistence on what nowadays might be called line-management : he reveals that a manager 's problem in the Carolingian palace was the maintenance of good order and morale among the often unruly yet indispensable " crowd " of young noblemen who were deployed on a variety of tasks and errands , especially of a military sort . |
| 3 | Shields , lances , pennons , broadswords and sun , but shielded by parasols for those in need , the guests who were seated on a rostrum below the pillared ruins of Cyrus " might , watched this impressive defile . |
| 4 | Mr Watson said the defence would now be looking for a ‘ courting couple ’ who were seen on the bus at the time of the incident . |
| 5 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 6 | Critics claim that Freire 's ideal was a ‘ classless ’ environment for literacy campaigns , whereas in reality it inevitably tended to be urban , middle-class people who were passing on the skills . |
| 7 | It was the dockers who were stealing on the docks . |
| 8 | Shortly after the IDA applied for planning permission , 46 workers representing eight trade unions who were working on the construction of the Raybestos factory issued a statement : |
| 9 | These problems were not strange to the Prague School , who were working on the semiotics of art about twenty years before Barthes . |
| 10 | A group of geophysicists who were working on the rocks of the floor of the north-east Pacific had discovered , before Hess 's suggestion was published , that instead of a random pattern of reversals , such as were common on land , the oceanic crust in the Pacific exhibited a pattern of ‘ strip reversals ’ ; the rocks in each strip were magnetized in one fixed direction , but the rocks in alternate , parallel strips were magnetized in the reverse direction . |
| 11 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 12 | Venturous was despatched to shadow her and to report back her movements to a reception party who were waiting on the UK mainland . |
| 13 | I followed him and saw him join some of his mates who were waiting on the corner . |
| 14 | He trained on until dark , when it was just he , Isay and the three Myrcan instructors who were left on the practice field . |
| 15 | It was Dobson and his gang who were left on the street , laughing , while he had to slink shamefully away . |
| 16 | The Baronessa was out in the garden now , a white cardigan slung over her shoulders , talking to a line of young Italians who were sitting on a wall in varying postures of exhaustion . |
| 17 | He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea . |
| 18 | She said that she had ‘ accidentally brushed against one of the four girls who were standing on the pavement ’ , whereupon ‘ all four caught hold of her , and beat her in a most savage manner , using fearful language ’ and left her on the pound bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth . |
| 19 | They assumed that pupils , mostly boys , of course , who were failing on the school reading scheme simply needed more and more opportunity to slog away at the phonics and sight vocabulary while under tight supervision . |
| 20 | Selwyn 's reply was interrupted by Renee Nelmes 's shrill voice as she yelled out of the bar room window at two boys who were playing on the roof of the concrete pillbox built in the far comer of the pub 's front lawn . |
| 21 | The latter was accused of treason on account of a letter he had sent to Euric , advising him not to make peace with the Greek emperor , that is Anthemius , but rather to attack the Britons who were stationed on the Loire , and to divide Gaul with the Burgundians . |
| 22 | Mary cycled into Berkeley 's ancient square and acknowledged a cheery greeting from ‘ Old Jesus , ’ the bearded local tramp , who was resting on the Town Hall seat . |
| 23 | The Sescas family were vassals of the Albret , and Barrau de Sescas , knight and admiral of Bayonne , was described in May 1297 as the ‘ man ’ of Amanieu VI in letters of Edward I to Albret , requesting his indulgence towards Barrau , who was detained on the king-duke 's business in England through no fault of his own . |
| 24 | The second victim was a 30-year-old woman who was hit on the head by a boom . |
| 25 | Please note that Susannah Harsanyi ( who was listed on the cast/crew list we sent you last week ) will not be with the party . |
| 26 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 27 | The authorities said that Mr Porras , who was deported on the grounds of having an expired visa and using falsified documents , had lived in Ecuador under an assumed name since 1987 and ran a Quito company trading in farm machinery , glassware and industrial security equipment . |
| 28 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 29 | Ruth , who was kneeling on the floor , turned also to look at her . |
| 30 | Ruth stood in the doorway of the room for a few seconds , looking at her aunt who was drifting on the edge of sleep . |