Example sentences of "[noun] it [was/were] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words it was on the basis of substitution . |
| 2 | While in Scotland Calvinism was soon officially triumphant , in England it was on the whole successfully opposed by the compromise of Elizabethan Anglicanism upheld by the monarch and most of the Archbishops of Canterbury . |
| 3 | Peter McAleer of Ennex told the Sunday Tribune : ‘ When we bought Mogul of Ireland from its previous owners it was on the understanding that they would retain any responsibility for any earlier workings at Silvermines and that includes the tailings pond ’ . |
| 4 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 5 | In the less fertile , wilder southern fringes it was on the whole more rewarding to raise stock whose meat could be salted down and whose hides could be tanned and made into clothing , shoes and cooking or storage pots . |
| 6 | So when we come up the lane it was on the top here and er Sally 's dad was with it and then er the engine was still going so this girl , well erm one of them wenches |
| 7 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 8 | Repeated many times over , the words of Luhnenschloss finally came to the notice of the RSPCA last year and were used as part of further discussions it was on the point of entering into with the Jockey Club in the hope of further reform . |
| 9 | When I first saw Moila it was on a beautiful day in the last week of June . |
| 10 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 11 | No I remember from what I can remember anyway when I first started using negative numbers it was on a graph . |
| 12 | When I did finally traverse the hills it was on a spring day of constantly changing conditions , all of them chilly . |
| 13 | In Guiseley it was on the latter , the Feast of St Oswald in August , but both custom and festival are now held on the first Sunday in July due to the large number of families being away on holiday in August . |
| 14 | This time it was on a much larger scale . |
| 15 | He 's also a keen golfer taking part regularly in showbusiness tournaments … in fact it was on the golf course in Blackpool that he first discovered he was ill . |