Example sentences of "were [adj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was not I but the other riders who were hell-bent on the wrong route . |
| 2 | just over half of all farms had family members working on them , and , of that number , 54% were full-time on the farm . |
| 3 | Faecal SCFA concentrations were low on the first day of diarrhoea ( mean ( SEM ) 9.9 ( 5.8 ) mmol/kg ) and increased to 94.8 ( 16.4 ) mmol/kg by the fifth day . |
| 4 | Ms Wilson said that noise , vandalism and violence were rife on the South Side and earlier closing times would restore some order to the streets . |
| 5 | What mattered to Marx and Engels was therefore not so much the specific history which had produced these concepts , but the fact that they had a history at all , that the concepts were dependent on the type of society and economy in which they occurred . |
| 6 | Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere . |
| 7 | He then headed two minority governments which were dependent on the Liberals , and a National Government which had a clear Conservative majority from October 1931 onwards . |
| 8 | This meant that pensions were not regarded as a right but were dependent on the establishment of eligibility through contributions or ‘ work-testing ’ . |
| 9 | The composition of these pore waters was controlled by the conditions existing at the surface , and these in turn were dependent on the stage reached in the ‘ evaporation cycle ’ ( Clark 1980a ; Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) . |
| 10 | If the loss of human dignity were dependent on the financial gain , there would be no moral and social objection to surrogacy in the absence of such gain ; whereas if the condemnation refers to surrogacy under any circumstances , the question of financial gain is irrelevant . |
| 11 | Both animals and plants were diversifying and were dependent on the increasing amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere . |
| 12 | Similarly , the fact that over 60 per cent of Britain 's exports were dependent on the declining and low-productivity industries in coal , steel , shipbuilding and cotton , caused severe structural problems and rapidly increasing unemployment , when the new pattern of domestic and foreign demand became relatively stabilized in the 1920s . |
| 13 | Peasants were dependent on the government for protection , and the garrisons could not survive without foodstuffs produced by the peasants . |
| 14 | They were high on the second icefield ; or was it the third ? |
| 15 | Crazy paint jobs and decoration with Christmas tree lights were high on the agenda , but we prefer Simon O'Mallon 's effort — ‘ When You Go , Go With God 's Speed ’ ( left ) — for that crucial Billy Whizz look |
| 16 | Concerns about unemployment , especially in Europe , were high on the agenda . |
| 17 | We were high on the North Face of the Droites when the storm struck . |
| 18 | We were high on the hillslope now . |
| 19 | Consumer privacy and data processing were high on the horizon , said Mr Hymas , and Brussels was suspicious of all direct marketing activity , to the extent that list-swapping will be hampered . |
| 20 | In these circumstances it was no accident that planning and resourcing were high on the agenda for internal debate . |
| 21 | The weather was good , scores were high on the day , but no-one could live with the excellent golf from Dermot who kept a steady throughout , pausing only once for a ‘ chuckle ’ as colleague Kevin O'Leary pitched a 9-Iron into the nearby water hazard , albeit the Shannon . |
| 22 | Economic affairs were high on the agenda during talks with President Gorbachev on May 14 ; at the start of 1989 Mongolia owed the Soviet Union in excess of US$15,500 million . |
| 23 | Arms control and related issues were high on the agenda and significant agreement was reached on the status of air-launched and sea-launched cruise missiles , which had been the major stumbling blocks in the way of a new strategic arms limitation treaty ( START ) . |
| 24 | I think that should have been Plymouth , I thought Plymouth were high on the league , they 're not , they 're near bottom |
| 25 | Rachel 's hands were white-knuckled on the window-sill as she pictured it , vivid images burning into her mind . |
| 26 | All three candidates were acceptable on the face of it . |
| 27 | they were wrong on the second point at least . ’ |
| 28 | Built of stone rubble faced with ashlar ( stone dressed to a smooth finish ) and Roman tiles , the original polygonal tower may have been 80 feet high , but it had fallen into ruin by medieval times and was partly rebuilt , probably in the reign of Henry V. It still stands to a height of 40 feet , however , and we can see the original windows which were tiny on the outside walls to prevent draughts interfering with the flames of the beacon at the top . |
| 29 | During placebo treatment basal , postprandial peak , and integrated serum gastrin values were similar on the three study days and on the days before each drug course . |
| 30 | Pelicans had some quick players who were dangerous on the break , but Clair Ward and Debbie Wadforth kept cool . |