Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be on [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first time that I heard of Maastricht was on 12 May 1940 , when the RAF was shot out of the sky and knocked on the ground . |
| 2 | The end was in sight for Victoria , and the last departures via Woodhead were on 4th January 1970 . |
| 3 | I understand the judging for the Britain in Bloom is on 10th July . |
| 4 | His first appearance in Accra was on 20 February 1948 ; Danquah was in the chair ; he assured the packed meeting that ‘ Kwame Nkrumah would never fail them . ’ |
| 5 | Her first run over fences was on 1 November 1984 , in the Nobber Chase at Navan . |
| 6 | George de la Tour 's ‘ Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player ’ , bought by Agnew 's at Christie 's on 13 December for £1,870,000 , is to join the collection at the Prado . |
| 7 | Recently bought by a dealer for £5,000 in a local auction , it sold at Christie 's on 1 April for £34,000 ( $51,000 ; est. £10,000–15,000 ) , bought by a private art consultant , underbid by Blairman |
| 8 | After an elegant supper given by the Racing and Breeding Fine Arts Fund at Christie 's on 1 June , forty ‘ Colourmasters ’ were auctioned , raising in total £128,000 in aid of more than thirty charities including Racing Welfare , the Equine Fertility Endowment Appeal , the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind , Crusaid and the Multiple Sclerosis Society . |
| 9 | He left his pictures to his nephew , Thomas Hankey of Bedford Square : these were sold at Christie 's on 7–8 June 1799 . |
| 10 | The so-called Trausnitz Venus , which was offered for sale at Christie 's on 10 December but failed to raise a single bid , has now been bought by the National Gallery in Washington . |
| 11 | Those who fecklessly pay huge sums for grimy canvases would be wise to study the results of the Dr Carlo Croce collection at Christie 's on 14 January . |
| 12 | Of the oils , four are currently on loan to MoMA including ‘ L'Asie ’ from the collection of the Mollie Parnis Livingston , which made $10 million at Sotheby 's on 10 November ( bought by the Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth ) and ‘ Harmonie jaune ’ which achieved a new world record for a work by the artist at Christie 's on 11 November , selling for $13.2 million against an estimate of $5–7 million . |
| 13 | Continental ceramics including Meissen Porcelain from the Korthaus Collection at Christie 's on 21 September produced good results despite the high estimates . |
| 14 | This was bought-in at £6 million at Christie 's on 15 April , largely because the estimate was considered to be too high for what one expert commented was ‘ an early , dark , Leyden-period picture , which is at variance with what people want and expect in Rembrandt . |
| 15 | The first hearing of the summonses at court was on 24 April 1989 . |
| 16 | At Sotheby 's on 14 December the most energetic competition greeted Giulio Romano 's deftly drawn head of an eagle with several British dealers as well as a telephone bidder competing for the prize ; it sold for £16,000 ( $25,040 ) to Colnaghi ( with London dealer Thomas Williams providing the underbidding ) against an estimate of £5–7,000 . |
| 17 | The important ninth-century Anglo-Saxon jewel found on a beach in Dorset in 1990 and sold at Sotheby 's on 10 December ( see p. 24 ) is a case in point . |
| 18 | Of the oils , four are currently on loan to MoMA including ‘ L'Asie ’ from the collection of the Mollie Parnis Livingston , which made $10 million at Sotheby 's on 10 November ( bought by the Kimbell Art Museum , Fort Worth ) and ‘ Harmonie jaune ’ which achieved a new world record for a work by the artist at Christie 's on 11 November , selling for $13.2 million against an estimate of $5–7 million . |
| 19 | The Everhart Museum of Scranton , Pennsylvania , has asked the Orphan 's Court for permission to sell Matisse 's ‘ Pink Shrimp ’ ( est. $3–4 million ) , now on view at the MoMA retrospective , at Sotheby 's on 10 November , in order to fund an endowment for operating costs and acquisitions . |
| 20 | George Costakis owns the world 's most distinguished private collection of Russian avant-garde art , and 22 important works from it are being offered for sale at Sotheby 's on 4 April . |
| 21 | The sale of Modern British art at Sotheby 's on 4 November included a surprising number of notable works and attracted a large audience . |
| 22 | The most important oil painting by Goya to appear on the market for two decades will be offered at Sotheby 's on 9 December . |
| 23 | The ‘ Astronomicon ’ sold to the Cassa di Risparmio in Rimini for the Rimini Museum at Sotheby 's on 23 July 1992 for £105,000 against an estimate of £60,000–80,000 . |
| 24 | The American silver sales at Christie 's , on 22 January , and at Sotheby 's on 28 January , seemed to confirm that the last area of the market to give way in the recession was the first to rebound . |
| 25 | At the Victorian picture sales at Sotheby 's on 12 November and Christie 's on 13 November , buyers tended to stay away from works which had been on the market in recent years . |
| 26 | The projected sale of the contents of Pitchford Hall , Shropshire by Christie 's on 28–30 September is a direct result of the owner , Mrs Caroline Colthurst 's family 's major losses at Lloyd 's . |
| 27 | His exceptional collection of gemstones , engraved gems , drawings , prints , and natural-history specimens was auctioned by White 's on 23 June 1785 . |