Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | By relieving it of responsibility for details , Parliament was thereby able to concentrate on major issues of policy . |
| 2 | But Aurangzeb was rarely prepared to rely on military prowess alone . |
| 3 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 4 | It was such a lovely day , and there was so much to do on the complex , but Shelley could n't summon the enthusiasm to leave the villa . |
| 5 | Either way I was long overdue to call on them . |
| 6 | On the evening of April 25 President Francesco Cossiga , 63 , himself resigned , in a live speech on national television , although his term of office was only due to expire on July 2 . |
| 7 | Ed : In the space available , G. B. Carter was only able to touch on some aspects of CBDE 's work . |
| 8 | He could have come back on that one , if he 'd really tried , but sometimes it was much easier to lie on the floor and watch the lights on the ceiling and listen to the count going on . |
| 9 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 10 | The houses gave way to shops and the slope levelled off , then he was in a narrow main street where it was easily possible to hop on one leg from one gift shop to the next … all of them closed until Easter . |
| 11 | The new hearing will be at Manchester Crown Court , where the judge was already due to sit on other cases . |
| 12 | None of them was more enthusiastic to turn on the heat and get the thing over than General Douglas MacArthur , the ‘ United Nations ’ commander in Korea , who was at pains to point out he had ‘ no direct connection with the United Nations whatsoever ’ . |
| 13 | Both Washington and London were interested in the formation of a barrier to Soviet expansion in the Middle East , but it was more difficult to agree on the details . |
| 14 | Beresford was probably fortunate to stay on the field . |
| 15 | One of Warner 's principal opponents was a dealer called Jay Hammond ; not least because Hammond was also happy to deal on the wrong side of the law . |
| 16 | It was really rough going on those jobs . |
| 17 | And not only the Xaritès ( or Charitès , the Greek Graces ) bend some solicitude over the unnamed revolutionary comrade , so does the poet — for indeed in 1930 Pound 's desire for an authoritarian leader in politics was as ready to fix on Lenin as on Mussolini . |
| 18 | Turman , having finished producing the entertaining but flimsy The Flim Flam Man , was now ready to embark on The Graduate with Nichols as director , and Calder Willingham writing the screenplay . |
| 19 | It was quite easy to decide on age weighting and a factor to take account of pupil numbers . |
| 20 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 21 | Meeting on 3 May , the Executive Committee was again unable to agree on the appointment of a curator for the Visual Arts section . |
| 22 | This project was therefore able to draw on findings from only a relatively small number of other experimental services . |
| 23 | Shortly before Gundovald 's death Guntram had recognized Childebert as reaching his majority : he was therefore fit to rule on his own . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , darling … ’ her mother was never anxious to mingle on the streets . |
| 25 | When criticising students ' work , both at the Royal College and elsewhere , he was never afraid to turn on the heat and could be harshly critical . |
| 26 | There was too much riding on one man . |
| 27 | Her grief-stricken father , who was born in Mossley Hill , was too upset to comment on tragedy last night . |
| 28 | Ignoring the foundation of the European Economic Community until it was too late to join on favourable terms , Britain lost its position as a first-class trading power without even noticing . |
| 29 | Cranston , too , was thinking about events in the Tower but was too anxious to concentrate on the problems they posed . |
| 30 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |