Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [was/were] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February the short-listed schemes for the new Inland Revenue HQ in Nottingham were on display in the Florence Hall . |
| 2 | A new kind of documentary was on offer for viewers in Beijing : populist , slightly Wilcocksy people shows . |
| 3 | But by the time of Charlemagne the majority of warriors were on horseback , though it is not clear if they actually fought from horseback or if they used the horses simply as rapid transport for traditional Frankish foot soldiers . |
| 4 | An exhibition of some of the work and research carried out by the University of Stirling was on display in the crush hall . |
| 5 | Students at the University of Conakry were on strike for most of November 1990 in support of demands for increases in their grants and for improvements in the quality of teaching and of library and other facilities . |
| 6 | BIRDS of prey were on display with both static and flying exhibitions at Cressing Temple yesterday . |
| 7 | The loco , on loan from the S.V.R. , operated on its own and piloted by the two class 14s in turn , giving visitors plenty of choice , particularly when 11 departures per day were on offer with trains running every 45 minutes . |
| 8 | During the years of the Occupation of Japan relations with the rest of Asia were on ice . |
| 9 | Officers with radios were on duty throughout the Birkenhead tunnel watching traffic heading into Liverpool between 8am and 9am . |
| 10 | Recalling the turbulent 21–21 Centenary draw between B.C. and Wales ‘ B ’ in 1989 , one of the best crowds in years was on hand to see Swansea , workmanlike and without doubt the fitter of the two teams , win by two points with a goal , a try and two penalties to a goal , a drop goal and two penalties . |
| 11 | Royal Navy bomb disposal experts from Rosyth were on board a trawler , the George Duncan , two miles of the coast at Crimdon , near Hartlepool , last night after it caught a mine in its nets . |
| 12 | The radio reported that when the back-up unit had arrived the block of shops was on fire . |
| 13 | From the time of Mr Bush 's speech to the UN General Assembly in October to the last-minute pleas of Javier Perez de Cuellar , the UN secretary-general , an array of sweeteners was on offer . |
| 14 | Thirty year old Mrs Godwin from Spratton near Northampton was on holiday visiting her friend . |
| 15 | Integrating Evode 's chemicals and plastics businesses with its own activities without dilution was on schedule , Laporte said yesterday as it unveiled its 1992 results . |
| 16 | The leader of the UNC , Basdeo Panday , who condemned the support given by the PNM for the government 's extension of the state of emergency was on Sept. 10 confirmed by President Noor Hassanali as the official Leader of the Opposition , a post he had held between 1976 and 1986 , as leader of the United Labour Front ( ULF ) , the then leading opposition party . |
| 17 | Wilson , whose rejection of religion was on account of its encouragement of so much evil . |
| 18 | A young man from Canada was on holiday in Scotland , ( I understand he was living with an aunt , locally ) , and had attached himself to Sam . |
| 19 | But in Edinburgh , the mixed system meant that a large number of compositors were on piece-work , while the machinemen were virtually all " on time " . |
| 20 | Culham is only six miles from Harwell ; for many years a model of ZETA was on display in its entrance hall as a reminder of Britain 's heritage in this field . |
| 21 | The back-channel reports on DEA operations that he had transmitted twice a week from his arrival in Cyprus were on file in a classified computer data bank , codenamed EMERALD , at Bolling Airforce Base , near Washington , and the first order of business upon his return was a systematic debriefing at a hotel near Fort Meade to fill in the gaps . |
| 22 | At the bottom , a trio of guards were on duty , armed with flamers . |
| 23 | Is not it a fact that doctors and nurses in France were on strike recently , and that in Italy patients have to ask relatives to bring in food because none is provided by the hospitals ? |
| 24 | My trip to London was on Ana 's behalf , my last throw of the dice . |
| 25 | The duty chargeman at Aberystwyth was on holiday and , because of economies in the use of staff , was not replaced . |
| 26 | One measure of this demand is that by the 1950s direct expenditure on goods and services by government was on average just over 20 percent of GDP . |
| 27 | Fossils from the club 's recent field trip to the Isle of Wight were on display , and secretary Frank Rhodes was thanked for his help in arranging this enjoyable outing . |
| 28 | He remembered the occasion when they had paid a visit to St Whatever-it-was on Magdalen bridge in Oxford . |