Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The hole was left unguarded while the men were on a tea break . |
| 32 | With the wind drifting the laden Zodiac , Trent doubted his ability to pick the tow up before the men were on the reef . |
| 33 | Oh well there was , the sweets were on the rationing and , and they |
| 34 | In 1971 the children were on the march , carrying the Cultural Revolution into the countryside . |
| 35 | In 1971 the children were on the march , carrying the Cultural Revolution into the countryside . |
| 36 | The women were on the whole surprised at the question , apparently assuming that a dispersal of concentration is intrinsic to housework . |
| 37 | At the County Ground , the wolves were on the prowl right from the word go . |
| 38 | Of those that were , one was using a sheath , and the others were on the Pill . |
| 39 | Now computers had been added to natural incompetence , and Cyril the Systems was on the edge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 40 | The Greeks spent several centuries under the heel of the Ottoman empire , which allowed them no form of self-government except in church matters ( about which the Turks were on the whole remarkably liberal ) . |
| 41 | Mr Bush described Mr Giuliani as ‘ America 's greatest crime fighter ’ , and the evidence of the anarchy on the streets was on the television news for all to see . |
| 42 | The shares were on the slide again yesterday , down 7p at 339p . |