Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As the game was on a Monday , Orient insisted on a kick-off at 4.30 , to stand a better chance of a good gate . |
| 32 | That was on a Monday . |
| 33 | That particular night — it was on a Wednesday evening — instead of keeping the ball low , I returned it with a very uncontrolled kick and bang ! |
| 34 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 35 | If I remember , that was on a Saturday night when the gents came down for their pickings . |
| 36 | This was on a Saturday you know . |
| 37 | She had still been half hoping that he might not be going to attend , especially as Family Day was on a Saturday when he was n't officially on duty . |
| 38 | No erm it 's , it 's more recent than that I think in nineteen fifty the election was on a Tuesday . |
| 39 | Well that was on a Tuesday I believe the letter 's on the desk there . |
| 40 | It was on a Tuesday that it happened . |
| 41 | Our two trips on the Central Wales Line have been very well supported and we have had a reasonable number on the two July ones ( last year 's was on the Severn Valley Railway ) . |
| 42 | Only a return to US price stability would allow a once-and-for-all rise in the gold price to work , and there was nothing in the act of raising the price of gold which would make that more likely ( indeed , the improved gold backing for the dollar would relax such pressure as there was on the US government to maintain price stability in order to defend the dollar ) . |
| 43 | When he was at Croisset , he dreamed of the hot sand and the shimmering Nile ; when he was on the Nile , he dreamed of damp fogs and shimmering Croisset . |
| 44 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 45 | The company said the major impact was on the UK brick company ‘ where a number of less effective manufacturing facilities are to be closed and production concentrated on the low-cost , high-quality plants ’ . |
| 46 | Modigliani 's studio was on the Boulevard Raspail where Nina lived . |
| 47 | ABC television memorably noted that " Sarah Brightman could n't act scared if she was on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning " ; while Frank Rich of the New York Times — the feared " butcher of Broadway " — remarked that she " simulates fear and affection alike by screwing her face into bug-eyed , chipmunk-like poses " , and that Lloyd Webber 's score was " long on pop professionalism , and impoverished of artistic personality and passion " . |
| 48 | And on the er , general book front , the erm , Iron John was on the New York Times best sellers list for fifty one weeks and twelve of those at number one . |
| 49 | The library reference room was on the Fludyer Street side of the building and although it housed some to the 5,000 volumes in the manuscript library , some had to be distributed throughout the passages of the building . |
| 50 | Cos when I was on the Hertfordshire Environmental of the group which has folded |
| 51 | What was on the Sunday before the Christmas ? |
| 52 | Moldan , whose name was on the StB register although he had not been an agent , admitted to meeting with StB agents but declared that " in the conditions in Czechoslovakia at that time it never crossed by mind that I could refuse " . |
| 53 | The chosen location was on the Shepton Mallet side of the tunnel , where he intended to record trains approaching the climb . |
| 54 | ‘ I thought you was on the InterSpace payroll back then ? ’ |
| 55 | Our favourite place as a family was on the Church Hill , a pleasant area at the edge of The Heath . |
| 56 | When I one time when I was wounded in France I was on the Somme you know . |
| 57 | ‘ 'T WAS on the Isle of Capreee that I found her … ’ |
| 58 | An example of such pressure involving an attempt to change an inequitable system that appears to bear no relation to wartime was on the Isle of Ely . |
| 59 | The visit to Leeds was on the Tuesday . |
| 60 | On the Tuesday I went in and they said that a letter would follow right that was on the Tuesday the twenty first something like that , then I never heard nothing from them until this came lunchtime post this Monday recorded delivery . |