Example sentences of "and [was/were] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All subjects , including elderly people , lived at their family home and were on a balanced western diet . |
| 2 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 3 | At last they decided to withdraw from the square and were on the point of departure when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of tough-looking soldiers , helmeted and armed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 6 | George I and George II were Germans by birth and upbringing , and were on the throne simply because all the heirs with better hereditary claims were disqualified by being Roman Catholics . |
| 7 | A core staff of assistant manager , guest services director , food and beverages manager , head chef and housekeeper had already been appointed and were on the payroll , helping with preparations for the hotel 's opening . |
| 8 | We worked a wee half a week and were on the dole , Monday , Tuesday and Wednesday we 'd be on the dole , then work Thursday , Friday and Saturday morning . |
| 9 | They lived in Gordon Square , and were on the fringe of the Bloomsbury set . |
| 10 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 11 | There was evidence that passers-by were annoyed , and were on the verge of resorting to violence when the police intervened . |
| 12 | By now they had walked some distance along the Haymarket , and were on the edge of Piccadilly Circus where Dr Neil was relieved to see that Stair 's party had disappeared and the crowds there had grown less . |
| 13 | His elder daughter , heir to the throne , was just twenty-five years of age and was on a trip , with her husband , Prince Philip , to Kenya , so they hurried back to London . |
| 14 | Doug Jones had at this time , been split from his mates of the Wolverton Company and was on a working party with a group of Queen Victoria Rifles men , detailed to drain some marshes in Poland . |
| 15 | Certainly , it surpassed in bulk and cost anything yet seen in Romania and was on a scale approaching Imelda Marcos 's spendthrift acquisitions . |
| 16 | Hodson , who holds the dubious distinction of being relegated with every club he has played for , had rejected a new one-year contract and was on a week-to-week basis . |
| 17 | She lapsed into a coma and was on a life support machine . |
| 18 | Col Phailes , a payload specialist , is attached to the USA Industrial College of the armed forces and was on a UK fact-finding tour with colleagues . |
| 19 | It came to have Connolly 's support and was on the way to becoming thoroughly nationalist and republican under Connolly 's influence . |
| 20 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 21 | It was not long before she had left home and was on the road . |
| 22 | She took a BSc honours degree in Sociology at London University , worked as a community counsellor for one-parent families in Camden and was on the literature panel of the Arts Council until their decision to return to the Government some money designated for writers ' bursaries led her to resign in disgust . |
| 23 | ‘ The car had driven round the barrier and was on the off-side of the road when it collided with the train , ’ a BR spokesman said . |
| 24 | He was an early enthusiast for British membership of the European Monetary System and was on the council of the Howard League for Penal Reform from 1977 to 1983 . |
| 25 | For what it 's worth , I was a schoolboy visiting the [ Russian ] cruiser that afternoon after school , and was on the main deck looking over the side next to the quay , when I saw a diver ( with full deep-diving headgear ) being pulled beneath the surface by two frogmen . |
| 26 | If someone was making a confession about an unfaithful lover , and was on the edge of tears , people would often say , listen , darling , this woman knows what she is singing about . |
| 27 | According to Mr Charles , my father had duly driven to one village and was on the point of entering a second when either Mr Smith or Mr Jones noticed the village was Brigoon — that is to say the third , not the second , name of the sequence . |
| 28 | Sheila was now the Sixer and was on the Brownie Highway . |
| 29 | He was a regular attendant at services for the deaf held at St. Saviour 's Church , and was on the committee of the Royal Association for the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 30 | No , this could n't really be the case , and he shuddered , in spasms , uncontrollably , and was on the verge of dismissing these thoughts from his mind . |