Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new arrangement , which had been hotly contested by France and was approved only on a majority vote , each member state was to be allowed 15,000 two-month permits a year which would allow unlimited cabotage rights within the EC . |
| 2 | However , this conclusion was based solely on a comparison of income support levels with supplementary benefit rates . |
| 3 | Attention was focused instead on a witch-hunt of an isolated French communist party articulating working class demands but marginalised by dead-end sectarian politics . |
| 4 | Alex fidgeted impatiently as Miles was brought forth on a stretcher , ignoring the welfare of the Base Coordinator completely . |
| 5 | ‘ I gave him a good whacking , ’ Wally told police as he was taken away on a stretcher . |
| 6 | Marathon leader , Britain 's Francis Tuthill was more cautious but still spun the Porsche twice and was passed once on a stage by second-placed Australian Ian Vaughan ( Ford Falcon ) . |
| 7 | Bristol was poised here on a cusp between two styles , and a few years later ( 1754–55 ) in the sadly lost Assembly Rooms on Prince Street , Thomas was able to press his Rococo leanings even further . |
| 8 | SPAR was tested mainly on a corpus of 23 texts averaging nine sentences in length . |
| 9 | AN open verdict was recorded yesterday on a solicitor found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his car , which had a tube attached to its exhaust . |