Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Plant subjects in the same lunchboxes that had been used for previous experiments were placed on a stand and viewed . |
| 5 | After immersion in 40% glycerin solution at room temperature , they were placed on a copper stage and frozen with liquid nitrogen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The computer , keyboard and monitor were placed on a table outside the growth room and measurements were recorded regularly . |
| 9 | Their convictions were overturned on a technicality by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals leading to their retrial in 1991 . |
| 10 | However , the size of the database resulted in some confusion as to the best way to proceed with the enquiry , and the next few stages were undertaken on a trial and error basis . |
| 11 | If Kinsella were to go on a binge , he would drink his way down to the last penny of whatever money is available , irrespective of who it belongs to . ’ |
| 12 | Social democratic parties have existed in Europe for a century or more ; the Democratic and Republican parties in the US are well over a century old , and indeed have a certain continuity with earlier parties dating from the time of the American Revolution ; conservative parties on a mass basis were created soon after the emergence of social democracy in Europe ; and communist parties were formed on a world scale after the Russian Revolution . |
| 13 | Her feet were resting on a step-ladder . |
| 14 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 15 | ‘ This girl and her brother were driving on a stretch of road that does n't exist anymore . |
| 16 | Apart from the two singles , the only new non-Ukrainian songs fans heard were contained on a John Peel session broadcast in May , and one of those was a madcap cover of Altered Image 's ‘ Happy Birthday ’ . |
| 17 | By nine that morning they were parked on a side-street off Tottenham Court Road , Bodie at the wheel of the Capri , Doyle slouched down in the passenger seat , idly , almost cursorily , watching the heavy flow of traffic up towards Warren Street . |
| 18 | The winners were picked on a draw basis , and they were ; Alan Maynard from Plymouth , Bob Smith from Brighton , Ron Wilkie from Dundee , John Elliott from Teesside , Neil Shead from London East , and Dil Jones from Chester . |
| 19 | Protein-DNA complexes were resolved on a polyacrylamide gel and the gel dried and autoradiographed . |
| 20 | In the nineteenth century the wines of Pierry were considered on a par with the best wines of Aÿ . |
| 21 | If ever the Royal Warrant were to appear on a headhunter 's letterhead , it would be Spencer Stuart 's , except that they would be too modest and discreet to make it public knowledge . |
| 22 | Before the rise of factory production , spinning and weaving were done on a putting-out basis , with individuals or groups of spinners and weavers working in their own cottages in country towns , villages , and hamlets dotted throughout rural Lancashire . |
| 23 | The total cosmid library contained about 8500 clones , a coverage of 23 , but most hybridisations were done on a sublibrary of 3000 clones ie a coverage of 8.5 . |
| 24 | Randomized sequences of six phonologically dissimilar consonants were presented on a computer screen at the rate of 1 per second . |
| 25 | In our experimental tasks , English letters were presented on a monitor , while in the control tasks , which were formally identical , we displayed Korean letters , which could not be transcoded phonologically . |
| 26 | The lines of a-poem were written on a plaque at the end of our corridor , ( He who has become a son of France , not through blood received , but by blood spilt . ) |
| 27 | But the paper was so damp that his pen merely furrowed it , as if he were writing on a slab of butter . |
| 28 | It 's was like you were writing on a writing pad . |
| 29 | We were living on a shoestring all the time he was living it up down there . ’ |
| 30 | The goats were tethered on a patch of grassy ground close to one of the gates . |