Example sentences of "the [noun prp] was on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal cipher clerk in the Vatican was on the Hanoverian pay-roll , as was a senior clerk in the French Foreign Office , and the latter , in February 1744 , supplied details of the French invasion plans , which were sufficiently convincing for George II , on 15 February 1744 , to send a warning message to Parliament . |
| 2 | Clearly , the Williams-Renault was on the pace even though gearbox trouble would eventually account for both drivers , Patrese 's departure being the more dramatic of the two . |
| 3 | The Kurhotel was on the next block , a 1950s five-storey tower of glass and unpainted concrete that had once been the pride of East German architecture . |
| 4 | The Ferrari was on the ideal line for the bend , Brett Lunger came through , struck it and pushed it a hundred yards down the track where it burst into flames . |
| 5 | The BAAS was on the surface a democratic and provincial body , run in fact by a small group of professionals , a Cambridge network of gentlemen of science . |