Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 2 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 3 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 4 | At the end of this terrace was a brick wall some ten feet in height behind which were the gardens of the Milford Hill houses , the first of these was on the corner of the streets . |
| 5 | He and some other survivors of the hospital staff got straw mats and went outdoors — thousands of patients and hundreds of dead were on the driveway and in the yard — and hurried around behind the hospital and lay down in hiding to snatch some sleep . |
| 6 | Last time she had slipped out in the dark like this was on the night the Doyles had come , the night that had ended with a mystery and a death . |
| 7 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 8 | More particularly , Galileo used standard perspective procedures in accounting for the foreshortening of the spots which he claimed in 1613 were on the surface of the sun . |
| 9 | She grabbed the copy of Racing Post that was on the table . |
| 10 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |
| 11 | No one at all was on the beach . |
| 12 | If we call the press a mass medium , we refer , strictly , to an ancient technology ( a ‘ medium ’ ) of pressing sheets of paper against inked type — dominant , in 1945 , in the ultimate guise of hot metal typesetting machines , which by 1990 were on the scrap-heap . |