Example sentences of "the [adj] [was/were] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English liberals studied their seventeenth-century predecessors with great attention — Wordsworth frequently refers with enthusiasm to Milton and Algernon Sidney — but for them the land of the free was on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 2 | The , admittedly the French and the British were on the right side , they won the war , but France er was er battered in the war , lost an awful lot of people , it 's a common and although this country , although , you know , fighting in Britain , the er , British economy was also badly damaged . |
| 3 | The second was on the employed ( many of whom had either personal experience of unemployment or had close family or friends who were unemployed ) . |
| 4 | The first was on the unemployed themselves , how they interpreted and reacted to their experience , their political beliefs and behaviour . |
| 5 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 6 | The former was on a grand scale , needing an immense effort , but the rewards were immediate and of some wider significance for Roman Britain . |
| 7 | Four were on the main street ; the fifth was on the western edge of the village . |
| 8 | The second attack on the 18th was on shipping and dock installations in the Port of Gdynia in Poland on the Baltic Sea , and the third was on the synthetic oil plant at Politz near Stetin . |
| 9 | The most productive coalfields in Great Britain in the 1980s were on the eastern flanks of the Pennines . |