Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 2 | Eliot and Sgt. Bamberger of 261 Squadron were on a night readiness and were both ordered off . |
| 3 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 4 | The stripping action was on a par with other smaller models . |
| 5 | However Cavalli 's most popular work was on a libretto by Giacinto Cicognini packed with effective situations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 9 | So he said , you were on the right and this lady was on the left near the gutter side ? |
| 10 | With Puddephat out of the way , the English faculty were on the spot . |
| 11 | ‘ And this picture was on the easel then ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the same time I became aware of the fact that this opera was on the stocks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | About the only occasion on which a question was put to Kinnock about foreign policy was on the election eve Spitting Image . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Robinson 22 light helicopter was on an auto-gyration practice flight when the tail rotor touched the ground during a steep descent . |
| 18 | public consultation was on the basis of a dual carriageway and it |
| 19 | Another box were on the floor , I could of helped myself ! |
| 20 | There was like a prawl in the flywheel , and you pulled a lever like that and it , there was n't a connection on to the , like on to the crankshaft with a starting handle , this thing was on the flywheel and it was like a lever |
| 21 | Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse . |
| 22 | Sabine was in the study and this painting was on the wall . ’ |
| 23 | New escape : A 22 year old prisoner was on the run today after escaping from Group 4 guards in Derby while being taken from court to jail . |
| 24 | General Lee lost the battle and surrendered , and so yet another Saunderson was on the run . |
| 25 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 26 | One wrong move and all that in-fighting was on the line , would be thrown away . |
| 27 | ‘ I went to Paris and I saw with my own eyes — either that or I was young and I dreamt it all — workers and students and young people together , fighting , helping each other-socialism was on the streets . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One such occasion was on an outing with Steve to the Apollo Theatre in London 's Shaftesbury Avenue to see Peter O'Toole in Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell . |
| 30 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |