Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [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 | During the ninety day period preceding the accident he had flown 140 hours , of which seventy-five hours were on the accident type . |
| 4 | 27 language teachers from 10 different countries were on the London coach . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of the most interesting articles was on the creation of the modern course . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They found that field social workers were on the whole critical of the residential experience . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Further reinforcements were on the way aboard a big convoy sailing from Gibraltar . |
| 11 | Ford union leaders said fresh cutbacks were on the way after a meeting with management . |
| 12 | More than fifty British hostages were on a freedom flight from the Gulf to Gatwick airport today for an emotional reunion with relatives . |
| 13 | Of the total , 174 incidents were on the zero point of the international seven-point scale , 28 incidents were one-point and three were two-point . |
| 14 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 15 | Weekly group meetings were set up in Newham when five or six workers were on the payroll . |
| 16 | Olympia provoked such a reaction because it ‘ altered and played with identities the culture wanted to keep still ’ and ‘ because such identities were on the surface in such a brutal and unmediated fashion ’ . |
| 17 | Two burly men were on the doorstep . |
| 18 | It was the first such measure passed in any state , although similar measures were on the ballot papers for November in Colorado and California . |
| 19 | Many rehousing schemes were on the peripheries of the conurbations , often in adjacent local authorities , some still designated as rural districts . |
| 20 | A spokeswoman for the print union , Sogat , said such practices were on the way out . |
| 21 | A massive operation was launched by emergency services and 100 firemen were on the site . |
| 22 | The emphasis in these speeches was on the need for unity and the avoidance of dissent in radio programmes . |
| 23 | One or your down-fine hairs was on the pillow : I picked it up like gold-dust-sweet relic ! |
| 24 | One of the earliest of these settlements was on the island of Torcello on the Venetian Lagoon , and nearby Venice was established later . |
| 25 | Around 200 white wines were on the US tariffs blacklist , but a White House trade official would not deny they were taking special aim at France , which has persistently tried to block an agreement on farm subsidies and the prices of cereal substitutes . |
| 26 | Some of these guns were on the top of the submarine pens , others were on concrete towers as large as a couple of houses but far more strongly built . |
| 27 | To encourage himself as much as anything , he ventured a handful of general questions about Neferukhebit 's activities on the days leading up to her death — questions which resulted in conventional answers , the activities of any rich young girl marking time between the end of her education and the arrival of her husband — for these girls were on the fringes of the royal household , and work such as Taheb did — was taboo to their class . |
| 28 | That was your annual affair and the er the er the chapel itself was at the end of it used to put up a tiered platform if you can imagine it you know at the end of the little chapel and the erm the younger children was on the bottom and as you got older you graduated to the top and er I do n't know why it was though but er I always had to say the collection piece . |
| 29 | Half a dozen sailors were on the side deck . |
| 30 | Similar courses were provided for Hoffman Manufacturing Company , Chelmsford , from spring 1957 and for English Electric at Stevenage from autumn 1958 ; by the end of 1961 no less than eight firms were on the list , among them De Havilland , Imperial Chemical Industries and International Computers and Tabulators . |