Example sentences of "[noun sg] was on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The meeting at Rutherglen for the choice of commissioner with the authority of the Burgh 's vote was on the evening of 20th May at seven pm and the Dixon agents were so keen to keep their influence to the very end and not let Kirkman Finlay 's agents have an opportunity to exert influence that they were hard pressed to get the Councillors to the meeting at seven pm . |
| 32 | The enemy was on the alert . |
| 33 | Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on . |
| 34 | Its sudden arrival on the scene must have been embarrassing for those who have been trying to deny that federalism was on the agenda . |
| 35 | American football was on the screen . |
| 36 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 37 | I quote from the graphic account of the wife of a teacher who suffered a false accusation of this kind : ’ An article about the allegation appeared in heavy type on the front page of the local newspaper and the headline was on the hoardings outside the newsagents . |
| 38 | In five of the six cases the main focus of the headline was on the woman 's marital status : Church wife 's boy lover ; Young wife 's sexy games ; Sex in Jacuzzi for wife and lover , aged 12 ; A ‘ sex mad ’ wife 's schoolboy lovers ; A wife 's ten boy lovers . |
| 39 | At the 9th tee Lee insisted on playing his driver because the Bear was on the run . |
| 40 | ‘ Do n't forget , Roger , the key was on the inside of his chamber . |
| 41 | Sara wore a thin mackintosh over a blouse and skirt ; her handbag was on the floor at her side and a furled umbrella rested against the desk . |
| 42 | Last Fri last Wednesday and she got the trolley like and when she pulled the trolley a woman 's handbag was on the trolley and on the you know what was it ? |
| 43 | In the ninth and tenth centuries the financial aspect of feudalism was on the whole less important than the military . |
| 44 | The blood was on the pavement . |
| 45 | Thus , C.C. performed well above chance for displays with the green figure on the left , as in the upper panel , but was at chance when the green figure was on the right , as in the lower panel . |
| 46 | Hottest Action Was On the Phone ! |
| 47 | The breath caught in her throat , but she was saved from having to reply by Rosa 's approaching to say apologetically that there was a phone call , a business associate was on the line . |
| 48 | An air ambulance was on the scene within a few minutes , but Ranetta , whose mother arrived shortly afterwards , was already dead . |
| 49 | Although SSAP 2 was said to have been applicable , the important caveat was added that in accounting to the Government for the purpose of producing the appropriation accounts , the accounting was on the cash basis . |
| 50 | The proportion of the electorate having a strong partisan identification was on the decrease , and the electorate becoming more ‘ volatile ’ . |
| 51 | ‘ We knew marriage was on the cards . ’ |
| 52 | Her marriage was on the rocks , she had had a breakdown , her social life was in ruins and yet when she came to ask for his help she was wearing a sweatshirt which had the slogan on it , ‘ Christ is the answer ’ . |
| 53 | He was a good soldier , but his marriage was on the rocks . |
| 54 | Large investments in Thailand by multinationals , and torrid family squabbles , suggested that their influence was on the wane . |
| 55 | They were entitled in my judgment to take into account the actual use by the defendant company and the previous owner in determining what the ordinary use of that vehicle was on the road so far as it is relevant to the question they had to answer . |
| 56 | There were two fireplaces , one at each end of the classroom , two large cupboards and the teacher 's desk was on the north wall . |
| 57 | Josephine your work was on the top and I thought goodness that ca n't be Josephine 's writing . |
| 58 | As Faraday went deeper into electromagnetism , he began to leave his contemporaries behind ; his work was on the boundary between inductive experimental science and deductive physics , and failed to fit easily into either category . |
| 59 | Apart from the kitchen , the only other major work was on the bathroom , which was at the back of the house , through the third bedroom . |
| 60 | The emphasis in this work was on the collection of statistical data , i.e. in the form of numbers , rather than descriptions of particular ways of life . |