Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] was on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cornfields on each side of the road was on fire from incendiaries . |
| 2 | Beyond the flour mill , the rim of the horizon was on fire ; mynas and parakeets were calling to roost . |
| 3 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 4 | The rest of the village was on stilts , a Southend pier of teak , and we stopped there for petrol and beer . |
| 5 | This , at last , was the place where the engine work of the world was on view , just beyond the brow of the hills ahead . |
| 6 | Circumstances can arise which are difficult to anticipate ; for example , one site with which the author was involved was situated over a mile from the sea , but part of the site was on ground made up from Elizabethan times and included a harbour wall . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard is beginning to look increasingly like a printer company that also makes and sells computers , so much of the focus was on printers , with Douglas Carnahan , vice-president and general manager of the printing systems group saying that the company hopes to beat the industry 's compound annual growth rate in sales dollars in the printer market over the next five years . |
| 8 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 9 | The emphasis throughout the novena was on prayer , and the talks focused on the real and imminent threat of euthanasia being given legal approval in our country . |
| 10 | All the animals that were out when it flooded had been taken inside the house and the furniture in the house was on bricks . |
| 11 | The importance of Calke was that ( as at Erddig in North Wales ) everything in the house was on offer . |
| 12 | The only telephone on the Reach was on Lord Jim . |
| 13 | My first book at the Foundation was on Eritrea . |