Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the village was on stilts , a Southend pier of teak , and we stopped there for petrol and beer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mr Klein said he agreed with initial City reaction yesterday that the onus was on Owners Abroad to perform . |
| 4 | He grabbed at one leg of the dressing-trolley to steady himself , forgetting his own weight and that the trolley was on wheels . |
| 5 | more , the emphas the emphasis was on civilians patrolling their own , their own areas . |
| 6 | The emphasis was on surveys , but these were seldom conducted without any reference to other methods , and some of the most famous British work of this period , that done by the Institute of Community Studies , used a combination of data-collection techniques . |
| 7 | The working was on Tuesdays and Thursdays only , and within a short while the loadings increased until the standard formation was a five coach set . |
| 8 | Here in the Palais des Papes , as at Long Royston , the audience was on tiers of scaffolding . |
| 9 | All the animals that were out when it flooded had been taken inside the house and the furniture in the house was on bricks . |