Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her expression was wistful , reminiscent , as she recalled how , once they had gone up endless stairs and were seated on the hard wooden benches , an attendant had come along and pushed them all closer and closer together so that as many spectators as possible could be packed in . |
| 2 | Under their Chairman , Arthur Allen , the District 's committee raised a series of questions about the negotiated settlement and were unbending on the issue of retention of the District 's autonomy in all its affairs and highly critical of the failure to secure the appointment of Jacques as a joint |
| 3 | The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 9.86 million hectares of land in the UK ( 48% of its total land area and 51% of its agricultural land ) are designated under Article 3(4) of the Directive ( see Chapter 3 ) , i.e. ‘ less favoured areas in danger of depopulation , ’ but with the tiny-exception of the Isles of Scilly which are designated under Article 3(5) , i.e. ‘ other less favoured areas affected by specific handicaps. ’ 8.65 million hectares were designated in 1974 with adjustments in 1976 , and were based on the old ‘ hill areas ’ under the 1946 Hill Farming Act and already receiving special support measures from the British government . |
| 6 | Humanistic hands These styles started in Italy in the fifteenth century and were based on the Carolingian minuscule . |
| 7 | This was long before all things that girls wear could be studied and were exhibited on the way up the escalator at Piccadilly Underground . |
| 8 | When we got to the end we had a barbecue and were tested on the Country Code . |
| 9 | They had come off the M3 and were cruising on the dual carriageway A303 . |
| 10 | Sarajevo radio reported Serb forces had breached Gorazde 's defence lines in hand-to-hand fighting at the villages of Borovac and Gornja Glavica and were advancing on the town 's outskirts . |
| 11 | Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way . |
| 12 | They were randomly assigned to receive either the oleic , linoleic , or eicosapentaenoic acid supplemented diet and were continued on the same diet for at least four weeks before entering the experimental protocols . |
| 13 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 14 | This reduced price roughly equated to a 6% interest rate , which was passable in the 1960's , and was done on the recorded and explicit understanding that playing bondholders paid the full subscription ; although not obliged to do so it was regarded as a ‘ moral liberty ’ . |
| 15 | In the seventeenth century a weaver called Buffarot led a local revolt , and was broken on the wheel only a few metres from where we 're sitting . ’ |
| 16 | Oliver finished his speech and sat down and was slapped on the back . |
| 17 | The Blackpool Civic Trust made the restoration of the car their special project for the Borough Centenary in 1976 , and accordingly the car returned in 1975 and was displayed on the Promenade opposite the Foxhall . |
| 18 | WAITRESS Vera Nicholls served up teas on a charity stall — and was sacked on the spot by her boss , who ran a cafe opposite . |
| 19 | The Library continued to participate in the work of such bodies as the , and was represented on the Visual Arts Library and Information Plan steering committee . |
| 20 | Instead he became a pupil of Robert Stephenson [ q.v. ] and was engaged on the construction of railway lines in central Scotland and elsewhere . |
| 21 | Court testimony was seen as a formula to manipulate power and was evaluated on the strength of its effectiveness . |
| 22 | In fact it was the earliest in Bohemia and was based on the column erected in Munich by Elector Maximilian I to commemorate the victory of the Battle of the White Mountain . |
| 23 | The Roman system of dating ab urbe condita ( i.e. from the foundation of Rome ) was introduced by Varro in the first century BC and was based on the date assigned to the fabled founding of the city . |
| 24 | The Commission 's decision that the merger would create or strengthen a dominant position in the common market caused considerable controversy and was based on the following reasoning : |
| 25 | The FSU was founded in 1947 , and was based on the experience of the Pacifist Service Units , which had helped families who were overwhelmed by the destruction , separation , chaos and strain of the war years to cope and re-establish themselves . |
| 26 | Each ability grouping consisted of a girl and a boy and was based on the results from a weekly arithmetic exercise in the 6 weeks prior to the study . |
| 27 | It was designed for use in colleges and was based on the personal microcomputer . |
| 28 | One legend , often called " The Deliverance of Mankind " or " The Destruction of Mankind " , was inscribed on the largest gilded wooden shrine surrounding the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun and was written on the walls of later New Kingdom royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings , those of Seti I and Ramesses II possessing the most complete texts . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 30 | St Paul in an embryonic creed in I Corinthians , says Christ died for sinners and was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures ( meaning the O.T. ) . |