Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] on [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 I always remember the custard was lovely on a Sunday , the rest of the week it was like water .
2 The night of Wednesday 22 April 1778 was misty and cold ; snow was visible on the Solway Firth , to the north , and the Isle of Man , to the west .
3 He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet .
4 ‘ One daughter was married on the Saturday and our son went abroad on the Monday and our third child married eighteen months later .
5 In the case of Canada , the 1944 legislation was patterned on the Wagner Act and introduced certification processes compelling employers to engage in collective bargaining .
6 The gossip level was 23 on the Richter scale , the air jammed with jokes .
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