Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst it is true that the summit meeting of heads of state and government ( prime ministers and presidents ) in Stuttgart in 1983 adopted a Solemn Declaration of European Union , it would be a mistake to assume that the prime ministers and presidents and the European Parliamentarians were on the same wavelength . |
| 2 | For the moment , they were on the same wavelength . |
| 3 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 4 | At present , climate patterns — including the 0.3C to 0.6C increase in air temperature over the past 100 years — were on the same scale as natural variations . |
| 5 | They were on the same floor . ’ |
| 6 | If the Arab Palestinians who saw in the Nazis some hope of preventing Jewish immigration into Palestine were on the same level as the SS , were not those Palestinians who oppose Israel today equally guilty ? |
| 7 | if both of them were on the same level there would be no falls , there would be no power . |
| 8 | Problems arise when we come to consider the smaller centres , such as Arkhanes ; could they have had territories which were on the same footing as those of the major temple-centres ? |
| 9 | It is easily done as both his acute psychiatry ward and the alcohol unit looked similar and were on the same site , but he was adamant he wanted our service . |
| 10 | Three people ( GF , MM , and MS ) lived in houses which were on the same site as other residential facilities ( called ‘ campus ’ houses in the remainder of this paper ) . |
| 11 | When he discovered Blur were on the same label as Jesus Jones — with whom he shares the same management — Stephen ‘ put a word through ’ expressing his admiration . |
| 12 | When I came to Haiti , we were on the same plane . |
| 13 | The last time Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro were on the same set was eight years ago , for New York , New York . |
| 14 | You were on the same thing all day all day long . |
| 15 | I felt absurdly that we three were on the same side fighting the rest of the world . |
| 16 | When she was n't explaining that she and the libbers were on the same side really , Mrs Travers took pains to point out that FAMILY had no quarrel with the poor or socially inadequate ; it was just that she wanted to pay tribute to the unsung millions of women ( and men ) who lived normal lives , did not swap roles , get divorces or abortions , become homeless or batter their children ( or their wives ) ; people who faced misfortune with re-sourcefulness and courage and without recourse to public funds . |
| 17 | The accommodation huts were on the same side of the walls as the hospital hut . |
| 18 | The one window in the kitchen and the two in the main room were on the same end wall . |
| 19 | We wat , did you see that film up , that was on a few nights ago , some time last week I think ? |
| 20 | The atmosphere in C was slightly more informal ; this was in large part due to the physical layout of the lecture rooms , which bore a greater resemblance to school classrooms — students sat on chairs at desks and the lecturer 's podium was on the same level as the desks , allowing lecturers to move about the room answering questions . |
| 21 | The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall . |
| 22 | ( Indeed , underreporting of cases may be a reason for the relatively low rural miscarriage ratio in Table 12 , which is lower than the ratio of the " other urban " places , while the still birth ratio that is based on complete registration of late fetal deaths was on the same level — 7.5 per 1,000 live births — in both rural and " other urban " areas . ) . |
| 23 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 24 | The Duke 's rooms were on the first floor , in the new buildings of the castle , and Antoinette 's room was on the same floor . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 26 | We arranged that we should take turns to cook for whomsoever was on the same watch . |
| 27 | Everything else was on the same scale — an orchestra of sixty players to dance to , eight large buffets with four tiers on each so laden with food that hardly an inch of rosewood or mahogany showed , a winter garden where gentlemen could smoke their cigars , and a long terrace where perspiring dancers could escape the candle fumes and wander in the warm , starlit twilight . |
| 28 | Erm that was on the same vein and they got they got a ce er a certain amount of national er erm national er publicity . |
| 29 | On the plane she found herself sitting next to the Knitting correspondent of a women 's magazine who was on the same press jaunt . |
| 30 | The resolution was on the same lines as that put forward on Oct. 23 by the UN Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on Decolonization , which expressed its " conviction that the pursuit of a direct dialogue between the two parties to the conflict naturally contributed to the ( peace ) process ' . |