Example sentences of "was on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 2 | The in-fighting was considerable and not all the fault was on Auer 's side . |
| 3 | Miss Picon 's other major postwar success was on Broadway , in the musical Milk and Honey ( 1961 ) , as an American widow looking for a husband in Israel . |
| 4 | The offending wife would be clamped into the chair , which was on wheels , then propelled off the quay into the estuary where — temporarily at least — she might be silenced , to the relief of the husband and the general hilarity of all save the wife herself . |
| 5 | He grabbed at one leg of the dressing-trolley to steady himself , forgetting his own weight and that the trolley was on wheels . |
| 6 | In March 1944 the U.852 was on patrol off the west coast of Africa : she was the fifth U-boat to have been given this area of patrol , the previous four , commanded by aces such as Wuppisch and Schultz , having all been sunk by aircraft . |
| 7 | Erm we was on patrol , we was going somewhere , we passed er a big factory wall , on the way back er a day later , on the wall was , go home British wog . |
| 8 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
| 9 | PC John Reid , 30 , from Belfast , who was on patrol with troops near the Irish border just outside Crossmaglen , south Armagh , was struck in the chest . |
| 10 | I was always so glad to see him I hardly ever took time to say goodbye to Dad and whichever conductor was on tram-duty with him . |
| 11 | First bombing operation in the Malayan Emergency for 1 Squadron was on July 26 , 1950 . |
| 12 | The respondent having in June , 1882 , taken out a summons for leave to proceed on the judgment , an issue was directed to be tried between the respondent as plaintiff and the appellant as defendant whether any and what amount was on July 1 , 1882 , due upon the judgment . |
| 13 | The birth was on July 1st and at 7 lb 7 oz he 's got a long way to go to catch up to dad . |
| 14 | The Rev. George A. Stallings Jr was on July 4 , 1989 , suspended as a Roman Catholic priest for holding a mass for his own new congregation in Washington DC . |
| 15 | After an optimistic report on May 30 that an official announcement would be made soon by Brooke stating that formal talks would be forthcoming between the principal constitutional parties about the political future of the province , Brook was on July 5 able to give to the House of Commons only an abridged version of the statement he had hope to make . |
| 16 | Sir Ninian Stephen , Governor General in 1982-89 , was on July 19 , 1990 , appointed to head a steering committee whose brief was to organize a constitutional convention . |
| 17 | A leading member of the ETA command , Santiago Arróspide Sarasola " Santi-Potrosó " , was on July 4 , 1990 , sentenced by a French court to 10 years ' imprisonment for belonging to a terrorist organization and for illegal possession of arms . |
| 18 | Opposition trade unionist leader Chakufwa Chihana was on July 11 unexpectedly released on bail , along with 10 other political prisoners , following pressure from Western governments over Malawi 's human rights record . |
| 19 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |
| 20 | The emphasis was on defence , you understand . |
| 21 | On Monday evenings , at the end of wash-day , which I thought when small was always the worst day of the week , this would be rolled ( it was on castors ) to the centre of the room . |
| 22 | It was on ten-past five till seven , and it 's always , like , about |
| 23 | Unfortunate , because I was on ramp duty practically every night , finding the work somewhat impersonal too , the selections now being made by loudspeaker ( such was the weight of traffic ) , and having little to do but stand there drinking and shouting with my colleagues — thus denying Herta the kind of undivided attention that every young wife craves … |
| 24 | Sadly it was on Flensberg , the first PFF outing that was ruined by the weather , and did nothing to further this founding of target finding/marking . |
| 25 | She was on Rhodes when the father of Vasquez was killed . |
| 26 | Teresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena , both of whom ‘ indulged ’ in rigorous self-discipline ( and indeed it was on Catherine of Siena that Rose of Lima modelled her own life style ) , are none the less deeply respected . |
| 27 | Karen carefully calculated the period when she was most fertile , and while that window of opportunity was open I was on standby twenty-four hours a day . |
| 28 | Consequently , I was not surprised in our seminar discussions to find myself directing more questions and raising more problems when we were talking about structure and discourse than when the focus was on lexis . |
| 29 | He does not begin to describe what the effect was on Russia of by-passing the Reformation , the Counter-reformation and the Enlightenment ; instead , in an effort to be friendly , he mentions things Russian from time to time . |
| 30 | Ironically , it was on BBC . |