Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 2 | Because their nasal openings were on the top of their heads they could even continue to breathe if it became necessary ( see p. 115 ) to totally submerge . |
| 3 | Both of them were professionals , the only difference being that Trent was on the side of the law . |
| 4 | During the ninety day period preceding the accident he had flown 140 hours , of which seventy-five hours were on the accident type . |
| 5 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 6 | Eliot and Sgt. Bamberger of 261 Squadron were on a night readiness and were both ordered off . |
| 7 | Succeeding the ailing Sir Frank Soskice as a young Home Secretary in December 1965 , at the age of forty-five Jenkins was on the threshold of a dazzling career . |
| 8 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 9 | The stripping action was on a par with other smaller models . |
| 10 | However Cavalli 's most popular work was on a libretto by Giacinto Cicognini packed with effective situations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 13 | 27 language teachers from 10 different countries were on the London coach . |
| 14 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 15 | So he said , you were on the right and this lady was on the left near the gutter side ? |
| 16 | With Puddephat out of the way , the English faculty were on the spot . |
| 17 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 18 | One of the most interesting articles was on the creation of the modern course . |
| 19 | ‘ And this picture was on the easel then ? ’ |
| 20 | Despite the weather , the Mayor , Aldermen , and other high officials were on the landing strip to meet ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan and his twin engined Fokker as the storm seemed to clear . |
| 21 | They found that field social workers were on the whole critical of the residential experience . |
| 22 | In general there appears little to challenge the important conclusion of Mathias and O'Brien that the main economic incidence of British taxation was on the level of effective demand , for the majority of the taxpayers were not savers . |
| 23 | It was brown , as far as Hoomey could see , and its ribs stuck out like his own , and its great projecting hip-bones were on a level with his head , sticking out like girders as if to hold the gaunt body together . |
| 24 | At the same time I became aware of the fact that this opera was on the stocks . |
| 25 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
| 26 | About the only occasion on which a question was put to Kinnock about foreign policy was on the election eve Spitting Image . |
| 27 | Gerald Scarfe 's simple drawing of an empty chair was on the front and inside were pictures of John , information about the campaign , even a ready-to-send letter to MPs which you could tear out . |
| 28 | A few people were on the platform , the station staff busied themselves with mail bags and other items of luggage and parcels , at last the guard blew his whistle . |
| 29 | Further reinforcements were on the way aboard a big convoy sailing from Gibraltar . |
| 30 | The Robinson 22 light helicopter was on an auto-gyration practice flight when the tail rotor touched the ground during a steep descent . |