Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Thick pink towels were stacked on a rack , other pink towels were over a rail .
2 The objectives would be achieved more readily ‘ if courses were developed on a unit basis ’ .
3 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 .
4 These works were erected thirteen years ago , and being ultimately leased to the L & NWR Company , the present buildings were erected on a still larger scale .
5 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 .
6 The first AA telephone boxes were erected on the Ashford to Hythe ( Kent ) road in July 1912 .
7 Screens were erected on the walls .
8 Chi-squared , Fisher 's exact , Student 's t , and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to detect significant differences among vaccine groups ; 95% confidence intervals ( CI ) for proportions were calculated on a logit scale and converted to the original scale , and 95% CIs for GMTs were calculated with the method of normal approximation .
9 Confidence intervals for these were calculated on the basis of the associated binomial probability .
10 In addition project outcome correlations with project-independent variables were calculated on the pooled data .
11 Finally , Meshkinpour 's figures were calculated on the basis of hospital charges for manometry , whereas our figure was derived from actual costs .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 In the previous decade WEA classes and courses were arranged on an intermittent basis at Hoddesdon , Letchworth , St. Albans , Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City but little had been possible in the organisation of interest or to sustain a social movement in the county .
15 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 .
16 Indeed , that section is worded exceptionally widely and would empower the Secretary of State to undertake root-and-branch reforms of the whole process of transferring shares , whether or not these were listed on an exchange .
17 The amino-acid sequences were aligned on the basis of structural superpositions .
18 Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company .
19 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 .
20 Last year 17 schemes were completed on the local network with a further 5 on trunk roads ( Table 27 ) .
21 About 190 questionnaires were completed on the campus , with an additional 250 names and addresses of absent colleagues submitted .
22 If prosecutors , magistrates , judges and jurors were to proceed on an entirely sceptical footing , many fewer search and arrest warrants would be issued , fewer people would be prosecuted , even fewer would be committed to trial , and , of those tried , many more than at present would be acquitted .
23 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 .
24 When they played cricket and other games in Calcutta their arms were placed on a table under a guard on the edge of the playing field , ready for instant action .
25 With large consumers , moreover , the cost of more complex metering was justified , and most were placed on a tariff based on their measured maximum demand as well as a cost-based running charge .
26 Plant subjects in the same lunchboxes that had been used for previous experiments were placed on a stand and viewed .
27 The computer , keyboard and monitor were placed on a table outside the growth room and measurements were recorded regularly .
28 After immersion in 40% glycerin solution at room temperature , they were placed on a copper stage and frozen with liquid nitrogen .
29 All 20 patients were placed on a 2200 kcal diet containing 80 g/day of fat .
30 Few additional loads were placed on the original structure .
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