Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large scale drug smuggling was on the increase , and a more professional approach to combat this was being used by the law-enforcement teams . |
| 2 | By the turn of the century , alignment research was on the increase , although it was being carried on by individuals working in isolation from each other . |
| 3 | In this respect , the opinions of the parliamentary leadership were not dissimilar to those of the majority of Labour supporters , but this congruence does not invalidate the claim that Labour 's substantive and definite electoral support bloc was on the decline , and was being replaced , at least at the margin , by a more conditional and circumspect form of popular support . |
| 4 | His cheque card was on the table . |
| 5 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 6 | Luke 's wedding ring was on the table , close to her hand , and her eyes were wide open , like the eyes of someone who has just woken up . |
| 7 | She bolted the front door , checked her car keys were on the hall table , turned off the lights , all this briskly . |
| 8 | The agreed plan for a postgraduate institute was on the basis that it would be partly financed by National Health Service funds — a commitment made in writing at the time by the then Scottish health minister , Michael Forsyth . |
| 9 | The remains of a sandwich lunch were on the side table . |
| 10 | According to the match programme Maradona was on the pitch , wearing the No.10 shirt . |
| 11 | May flies and caddis flies were on the wing . |
| 12 | Champney Road was on the east side of Plumford . |
| 13 | CAR dealers were on a collision course over the Chancellor 's drive to keep the motoring industry on the road to recovery . |
| 14 | PCs Bill Cotton and Ken McDonnell were on the scene just minutes after a woman hurled the toddler into the river . |
| 15 | At Thames Valley police headquarters today rising crime statistics were on the agenda of a meeting of the police authority . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw Gabriel on the cover of a magazine , and David Mellor was on the cover of something else and I thought , who 's looking funkier ? |
| 17 | The fingerprint bureau was on the point of collapse . |
| 18 | Out of the corner of her eye , she saw that Richard Blake was on the move again , and inwardly she groaned . |
| 19 | The Wise Woman would do her homework because Mother Francis was on the warpath . |
| 20 | Last week Frankie Vaughan was on an operating table undergoing major surgery to the most important artery in his body ; the Aorta . |
| 21 | PC David Waters was on the scene in minutes . |
| 22 | The Stavanger house was on the south side of the square , nearest the river , and an alleyway beside the house probably led down to the docks . |
| 23 | However no shareholder rebellion was on the cards given the satisfaction with the group 's recent performance and only a handful of investors voted against the proposal . |
| 24 | It was the beginning of a frustrating period for Hunt and his mood swings were on the downturn . |
| 25 | Folk prejudice was on the side of the naturalists rather than of the philosophers . |
| 26 | Australian tycoon Alan Bond was on the point of conquering the world until he bought shares in Lonrho without first checking with Rowland . |
| 27 | and that week , Al Jolson was on the hippodrome with Sonny Boy . |
| 28 | The peace process was on the agenda at the OAU summit which opened in Dakar , Senegal , on June 29 . |
| 29 | LEEDS UNITED manager Howard Wilkinson 's bid to take Swedish internationals Patrik Andersson and Joachim Bjorklund to Elland Road was on the brink of collapse last night . |
| 30 | The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building . |