Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Screens were erected on the walls . |
| 2 | Limits were placed on the numbers of doctors registered with the system and drug companies were required to lower prices by 5 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 , and to impose a two-year price freeze . |
| 3 | At the Potsdam conference in July 1945 all the occupation powers agreed to disarm Germany , and limits were placed on the types of goods which German factories could produce , to prevent her regaining any war potential . |
| 4 | Dozens of ‘ specials ’ were chartered on the railways . |
| 5 | Teenagers were gathered on the steps of the one-roomed town hall — big-boned , inactive boys and blonde girls in a twilight between ethereal beauty and over-heavy womanhood . |
| 6 | ‘ It reminds me of my dear father one day at Sandwich , ’ she was saying , ‘ when we were picnicking on the sands and we had arranged to meet him at the nineteenth hole . |
| 7 | Their bodies were broken on the rocks below . |
| 8 | Considerable amounts of beer were consumed on the factories in these pre 1914 days , and boys were employed as beer runners operating from their chosen pubs . |
| 9 | The letter P was used later and these Type letters were painted on the solebars on one side of the car only . |
| 10 | They were painted on the walls of many private houses whether the occupants wanted them there or not . |
| 11 | In the education field , cuts were justified on the grounds that falling numbers of school-age children could lead to reductions in spending without reductions in standards . |
| 12 | Notices were posted on the sides of the cars , stating that the following changes would take place on the night of 6 December : — |
| 13 | Gandhi 's ashes were scattered on the waters of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers at Allahabad on May 28 in a ceremony that marked the end of the funeral service . |
| 14 | Other cars were parked on the lines — it was difficult to find a space ! — but I was the driver he chose . |
| 15 | De Gaulle visited his , hopefully , loyal troops in Germany ; tanks were reported on the outskirts of Paris . |
| 16 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 17 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 18 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 19 | At one time push-ups were done on the knuckles but since medical evidence proved that this could cause severe metacarpal damage they have been done on the flat of the palms . |
| 20 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 21 | However , very few skins were seen on the streets between 1972 and 1976 . |
| 22 | Birds were seen on the cliffs in East Sussex as early as 1950 , but despite a considerable increase in numbers , breeding was not proved until 1976 . |
| 23 | I could fill a book with the other similar comments which were written on the questionnaires but I think we can take it as read that the trials proved beyond doubt that if you followed the diet moderately strictly you could definitely lose inches from parts usually untouched by normal dieting methods . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Both Greeks and Jews were living on the borders of the Persian Empire . |
| 26 | All the mural fountains were built on the boundaries of properties belonging to the Pease family . |
| 27 | In time , more elaborate structures were built on the lines , including mounds ( or ‘ tumuli ’ ) of earth and stone , ‘ burial chambers ’ and dolmens or cromlechs . |
| 28 | Er the new towns that Hertfordshire were built on were built on the banks of moving skilled engineers out of West London . |
| 29 | Shanty towns made of waste materials were built on the outskirts of cities , and bitterly called " Hoovervilles " . |
| 30 | In the first half of the nineteenth century only one-fifth to one-quarter of all criminal cases were decided on the merits of the evidence . |