Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [was/were] on [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The remains of a sandwich lunch were on the side table . |
| 8 | The fingerprint bureau was on the point of collapse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Folk prejudice was on the side of the naturalists rather than of the philosophers . |
| 11 | The peace process was on the agenda at the OAU summit which opened in Dakar , Senegal , on June 29 . |
| 12 | The bilge pump was on the bulkhead . |
| 13 | When Czechoslovakia 's quiet revolution came last November , reform communism was on the menu for less than a week . |
| 14 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 15 | The breath caught in her throat , but she was saved from having to reply by Rosa 's approaching to say apologetically that there was a phone call , a business associate was on the line . |
| 16 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 17 | and the booking office was on the left |
| 18 | Yet to much of the British public , Jon Solly 's last visit to Planet Earth was on the occasion of his surprise 10,000m at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh — one of the highlights of the event . |
| 19 | When she woke next morning , she knew at once that Water Gypsy was on the move . |
| 20 | The Dalek Killer was on a balcony — a flat , unwalled slab that projected from a wide opening just below the top of the wall . |
| 21 | The Temperance Army was on the march in the United States . |
| 22 | A report presented to the US Congress 's General Accounting Office in late July indicated that drug trafficking and money laundering were on the increase in the country since the removal of the regime of Gen. Manuel Noriega Moreno in December 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 23 | Harlequin captain Winterbottom was on the ball when he said that the cup suited them best in so many ways . |
| 24 | This year 's staff conference was on the theme of the debt crisis . |
| 25 | The Crystal Palace tram terminus was on a gradient and it was ruled that if the crew wanted to take their break there , in the busmen 's canteen round the corner on the Parade , they must go one at a time and not leave the car unattended . |
| 26 | It was not long before two sloops from Portsmouth dockyard were on the scene . |
| 27 | The parcels office was on a walkway , about one storey high , approached by iron lattice-work stairs . |
| 28 | A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey . |
| 29 | An air ambulance was on the scene within a few minutes , but Ranetta , whose mother arrived shortly afterwards , was already dead . |
| 30 | Much of the manufacturing sector was on the verge of total collapse , with a catastrophic fall in the level of industrial production . |