Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Common 's first game for the Boro on February 25 was on a ground he had graced earlier in his career : Bramall Lane , the home of Sheffield United .
2 For instance the chronological grouping of particular watermarks has revealed that a small portrait of Petrus Sylvius , Saskia 's cousin , was printed twice : once in 1637 , which is the date below Rembrandt 's signature this was on the occasion of Sylvius 's move from Amsterdam to Friesland after he had been received as a minister of the church and again , in an unaltered state still carrying the date of 1637 much later , in 1653 .
3 The flat at number thirteen was on the ground floor .
4 At Brora the date 1895 was on the station building .
5 Invented in 1589 , when Elizabeth I was on the throne of England , the ‘ stocking frame ’ came into use when the demand for stockings was from both sexes , and it signalled the birth of a great industry , although recognition of its revolutionary potential was slow in coming , and William Lee died penniless in Paris .
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